Heavy Seas Loose Cannon IPA

[McGlothan]

Hi,

I just got home from the brew store with my ingredients for this magnificent looking imperial IPA. I used the ingredient list from hopvilles website. If any of you have brewed this before using these ingredients, I'm a little confused about the DME additions on their instructions. If you look at the ingredients and the instructions, there are a few thing unaccounted for in the instructions. Any tips for this brew will help as the ingredients set me back a pretty penny.

Thanks,

Shawn

 

[KraphtBier]

Haven't made that recipe (I'm an AG guy) but here's what I would do based on reading the recipe instructions:

Steep your specialty grains as normal but add FWH. Steep for however long you would normally then remove grains and leave the FWH (All other hop additions should be added at the times listed in the recipe). Add 2lbs DME and bring wort to boil. Then add 3lbs DME at 30 min. At 20 min add another 3lbs DME and the table sugar.

Hope that helps.

 

[McGlothan]

Thank you for taking the time to look it over and get back to me. Im using white labs california ale yeast and will make a starter using the DME for the recipe. Do you see a need to pitch more yeast than that?

 

[jaynik]

Can you post a link to the recipe?

 

[user 73497]

10.50 2 Row
1.50 Munich
0.50 Carafoam
0.50 Crystal 20L (Calls for Carastan 34L)
Amarillo 0.250 7.20% FWH
Centennial 0.250 8.60% FWH
Magnum 0.250 13.10% FWH
Chinook 0.125 10.30% 60
Magnum 0.250 13.10% 60
Amarillo 0.500 7.20% 10
Centennial 0.500 8.60% 10
Amarillo 0.500 7.20% 5
Centennial 0.500 8.60% 5
Centennial 1.000 8.60% Dry
Palisade 1.000 7.80% Dry

OG 1.065

SA-05 @ 60º

Brewed the above for a 5G batch, turned out very good and very close to Loose Cannon side by side.... I really like the hop schedule and have played around with it in other beers.

Good Luck.

Werbi

 

[KraphtBier]

Thank you for taking the time to look it over and get back to me. Im using white labs california ale yeast and will make a starter using the DME for the recipe. Do you see a need to pitch more yeast than that?

Your yeast starter should be sized appropriately for the gravity of the intended brew. www.mrmalty.com use the yeast calculator to figure out how big the starter should be.

 

[jaynik]

Strange hop schedule. .125 oz Chinook; really?! I will have to wait until I have a lot of these on hands.

 

[AnthonyCB]

According to the brewer they use only simcoe and palisade hops for their loose cannon. Where did you get this recipe?

 

[dcHokie]

Hi,

I just got home from the brew store with my ingredients for this magnificent looking imperial IPA. I used the ingredient list from hopvilles website. If any of you have brewed this before using these ingredients, I'm a little confused about the DME additions on their instructions. If you look at the ingredients and the instructions, there are a few thing unaccounted for in the instructions. Any tips for this brew will help as the ingredients set me back a pretty penny.

Thanks,

Shawn

Shawn, did you ever get any more info on the DME additions? Did you brew this batch yet?

Reading your post, I'm guessing this is the recipe you were going by: http://hopville.com/recipe/995610/imperial-ipa-recipes/heavy-seas-loose-cannon-hop3-ipa#

The IBUs and ABV really don't seem to match up at all with the commercial version, so I'm not sure why this poster of that recipe decided to name it a clone, but I hope it turned out well either way

 

[pjj2ba]

According to the brewer they use only simcoe and palisade hops for their loose cannon. Where did you get this recipe?

Perhaps here? https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/loose-cannon-brew-off-22278/index4.html

Back when I first made this, their website said Loose Cannon contained all of the hops I used. That was 5 yrs ago, so perhaps the recipe has changed since then.

 

[McGlothan]

Shawn, did you ever get any more info on the DME additions? Did you brew this batch yet?

Reading your post, I'm guessing this is the recipe you were going by: http://hopville.com/recipe/995610/imperial-ipa-recipes/heavy-seas-loose-cannon-hop3-ipa#

The IBUs and ABV really don't seem to match up at all with the commercial version, so I'm not sure why this poster of that recipe decided to name it a clone, but I hope it turned out well either way

I did brew it using a collaboration of these ingredients, and some other tips from this forum. I wrote down exactly how I did it in case I would like to try again. I think I did DME like this:
2 lbs at boil, 3 lbs at 30 min, 3 lbs + 1 lb corn sugar at 20 min.
It should be good I'm excited because I had to wing it a little bit. The OG came out to 1.085. Ill let you know!

 

[McGlothan]

It is pretty amazing! I cracked the first tonight

 

[AnthonyCB]

10.50 2 Row
1.50 Munich
0.50 Carafoam
0.50 Crystal 20L (Calls for Carastan 34L)
Amarillo 0.250 7.20% FWH
Centennial 0.250 8.60% FWH
Magnum 0.250 13.10% FWH
Chinook 0.125 10.30% 60
Magnum 0.250 13.10% 60
Amarillo 0.500 7.20% 10
Centennial 0.500 8.60% 10
Amarillo 0.500 7.20% 5
Centennial 0.500 8.60% 5
Centennial 1.000 8.60% Dry
Palisade 1.000 7.80% Dry

OG 1.065

SA-05 @ 60º

Brewed the above for a 5G batch, turned out very good and very close to Loose Cannon side by side.... I really like the hop schedule and have played around with it in other beers.

Good Luck.

Werbi

Your blend of hops looks delicious, but Loose cannon uses only simcoe and palisade hops according to the brewer. He has also told me that he only uses caramalt and Munich specialty grains.

 

[pjj2ba]

Back when the homebrew recipe was formulated years ago, these are the hops that Heavy Seas said on their old website that they used in Loose Cannon. It appears then that they have changed up the hops they use. I'm not surprised, it is more expensive and more work to have to deal with buying and storing lots of different kinds of hops. If they figured out another simpler hop schedule to get the same profile that seems like the wise change to make