Specialty IPA: Black IPA Heavenly Scourge Black IIPA

[winvarin]

So, this evening I just tasted my most recent batch - it is in the keg only 2 days on gas so it's still a little flat, but it makes me wonder why I haven't brewed this more often.

I always mash the carafa for the full 60 now as well. I have found little to no difference from adding in the last 10 mins. Perhaps I should change the original recipe post.

I've always mashed the carafa the full 60. I may try a shorter mash with my dark grains some time. I listened to an interview with Gordon Strong about holiday beers on Basic Brewing Radio last week. He said that with all his beers, he mashes only his base malts for the full hour. His does a mash out step at the end of his sacc rest where he recirculates the wort to pull the qualities they impart. He said it makes for smoother flavor

 

[hopzicle]

24 hours after being in the primary and i've had to add a blowoff tube to the air lock!

 

[JLW]

24 hours after being in the primary and i've had to add a blowoff tube to the air lock!

Yeah this beer will blowoff big time.

Also I have always mashed all of the grain for the full 60 min.

 

[temple240]

I'm going to brew a version of this beer, that I converted to PM, this Sunday. I noticed that you use a 1.5L starter for this beer, is that with a stir plate? This is the first time that I've needed to make a starter and I don't have a stir plate. I bought a 2L flask and a smack pack of 1056 with the intention of making a 1.5L starter but Brewsmith says that I will need two smack packs to get enough yeast. Do I need to pick up another smack pack before brewing or do you think it will be fine?

I've never brewed a beer this big so some input is greatly appreciated.

 

[JLW]

I'm going to brew a version of this beer, that I converted to PM, this Sunday. I noticed that you use a 1.5L starter for this beer, is that with a stir plate? This is the first time that I've needed to make a starter and I don't have a stir plate. I bought a 2L flask and a smack pack of 1056 with the intention of making a 1.5L starter but Brewsmith says that I will need two smack packs to get enough yeast. Do I need to pick up another smack pack before brewing or do you think it will be fine?

I've never brewed a beer this big so some input is greatly appreciated.

I make starters for most of my beers without a stir plate. I just give it a good swirl when ever I walk by it in the kitchen. It's not as efficient as a stir plate but I always get really fast starts to fermentation. I think you will be ok with one smack pack unless the lhbs is close by and you can get another one I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[brrman]

I use a stirplate for mine, but JLW is right - just swirl it each time you walk by. It will do the job. If you have the time you could always step it up a second time, but a single starter with one smack pack is fine for this beer.

 

[theBFG]

Anybody use Carafa I for this? LBHS was out of the III and II. Thanks !

 

[brrman]

Color might not be the same:

Lovibond as follows:
I 800-1000
II 1100-1200
III 1300-1500

 

[theBFG]

Color might not be the same:

Lovibond as follows:
I 800-1000
II 1100-1200
III 1300-1500

That's kind of what I figured, if color is the only thing really different than I am ok with that. It'll probably just be for me anyway, unless pops catches wind of it haha.

If worst comes to worst, at least I'll have an excuse to rebrew it!

 

[brrman]

Happy Holidays, everyone! My wife and I enjoyed a couple of these while putting up the tree last night.

 

[temple240]

I ended up picking up another smack pack for my starter because i had to go to the lhbs anyway. By far the most vigorous fermentation I've seen.

As a side note, I still have stains on my kitchen ceiling from this brew. I did pm biab and attempted to squeeze the grains while they sat on a colander over the brew kettle. The colander slipped and plunged 9lb of grain into about 2gal of wort resulting in wort covering the entire kitchen and myself. Luckily i have a very understanding swmbo and she helped me clean the very sticky kitchen. I had to add an extra .5lb of dme to hit my og but i don't think my beer will suffer from this (just my ego).

 

[brrman]

LOL - funny story. I'm sure the beer will be fine!

 

[theBFG]

Bought the ingredients for this (alebit with carafa I instead of III due to availability). Looking forward to brewing it up!

 

[h0psnobery]

*subscribed

 

[russrob81]

Decided to brew this today. Thank you

 

[WhiteCliffsBrewery]

We're putting this recipe on our brew schedule but it seems that Amarillo is in short supply and out of stock at most distributors. As an alternative, we're planning on using Cascade and Ahtanum. Any comments?

 

[josterhues]

I brewed this yesterday and I used Cascade instead of Amarillo and it turned out real well i thought. Will let you know in a few weeks when it's done?

 

[brrman]

Without Amarillo it won't taste quite the same, but I am sure it will taste great. Cascade is usually the hop of choice when substituting for Amarillo, so you did as good as was possible.

 

[daveyeah]

Brewed a partial mash version of this today,

16 oz of Carafa
16 oz Caramel 60L
3.5 lb of 2 row
6.5 lb of light dry extract

Hop schedule was the same
Using Safale-5

Seems to be quite good so far, I'll report back when I bottle.

 

[gugguson]

Can anybody post Beersmith 2.0 file (XML) of this recipe? Thanks.

 

[brrman]

BS 1.x file is in the original post (which should translate).
http://beersmith.com/importing-your-beersmith-1-4-files-into-beersmith-2/

I can update with a BS 2.0 file this evening.

 

[gugguson]

Thank you.

I was unable to open the 1.x binary file with beersmith.

BS 1.x file is in the original post (which should translate).
http://beersmith.com/importing-your-beersmith-1-4-files-into-beersmith-2/

I can update with a BS 2.0 file this evening.

 

[h0psnobery]

We're putting this recipe on our brew schedule but it seems that Amarillo is in short supply and out of stock at most distributors. As an alternative, we're planning on using Cascade and Ahtanum. Any comments?

I just ordered some from Austin Home Brew

http://www.austinhomebrew.com/product_info.php?cPath=178_21_93_70&products_id=31

 

[brrman]

Thank you.

I was unable to open the 1.x binary file with beersmith.

Do you mean the link helped you, or were you still not able to convert the file?

 

[temple240]

I'll definitely be brewing this again!

 

[gugguson]

Sorry for late reply.

No, I can't find the import wizard in the mac version of the software. If you could upload Beersmith 2.x file it would be very helpful.

Thanks

Do you mean the link helped you, or were you still not able to convert the file?

 

[russrob81]

Something happened our og was 1.104 and fg 1.018. So we have alcohol at 11.27%. Hydro sample tasted amazing

 

[JLW]

@brrman Over the weekend I had a beer by Firestone Walker - Wookie Jack whcih is a black ipa with rye. it was fantastic. My next version of this will include a bit of rye just to get that little bit of spice.

 

[brrman]

Yes I have considered a rye version of this - I do have a rye ipa I make and the spiciness from rye is just amazing. Let me know how it turns out!

gugguson: sorry I have not been around. I will post that BS2 file this evening.

 

[gugguson]

What would a rye version give the beer extra? More body or head? How much would you have of rye and what grain to lower?

Thank you brrman for the bs2.

Yes I have considered a rye version of this - I do have a rye ipa I make and the spiciness from rye is just amazing. Let me know how it turns out!

gugguson: sorry I have not been around. I will post that BS2 file this evening.