Imperial IPA -- thoughts?

[nickmv]

I just threw this together. Planning to brew Wednesday. Thoughts?

1) Should I increase the Magnum addition in order to provide more IBUs earlier, or is that good?
2)Is the Munich amount (12oz) good enough? I know my Caramel amount is fine (from experience).
3) Corn sugar is used in order to bring it down to 1.012 instead of 1.018 (10.5% ABV)


BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: Hoptivity 2: Overdrive
Brewer:
Asst Brewer:
Style: Imperial IPA
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (0.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 8.60 gal
Post Boil Volume: 8.06 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 7.00 gal
Bottling Volume: 6.60 gal
Estimated OG: 1.092 SG
Estimated Color: 8.8 SRM
Estimated IBU: 130.1 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 78.6 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
20 lbs Brewers Malt 2-Row (Briess) (1.8 SRM) Grain 1 85.1 %
1 lbs Caramel Malt - 60L (Briess) (60.0 SRM) Grain 2 4.3 %
12.0 oz Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 3 3.2 %
1 lbs 12.0 oz Corn Sugar (Dextrose) (0.0 SRM) Sugar 4 7.4 %
3.25 oz Magnum [12.20 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 72.3 IBUs
2.50 oz Citra [14.40 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 6 32.6 IBUs
2.50 oz El Dorado [15.30 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 7 25.3 IBUs
3.00 oz Citra [14.40 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 8 0.0 IBUs
3.00 oz El Dorado [15.30 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 9 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056) [124.21 Yeast 10 -
2.00 oz El Dorado [15.30 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 11 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Citra [14.40 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 12 0.0 IBUs


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Light Body, Batch Sparge
Total Grain Weight: 23 lbs 8.0 oz
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Mash In Add 27.19 qt of water at 162.4 F 149.5 F 70 min

Sparge: Batch sparge with 2 steps (Drain mash tun, , 4.66gal) of 185.0 F water
Notes:
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[sptaylor70]

Instead of corn sugar, you could use brown sugar of some variety and get some flavor.

You might consider switching your 15- and 10-minute and flameout additions to first wort hopping. Might give you a more well-rounded aroma and flavor.

Post how it turns out.

 

[nickmv]

You read my mind with FWH. I've been debating it ever since I started putting the hop additions into it. I bet the El Dorado late addition (before flameout) would be interesting as FWH, and Citra staying where it's at.

 

[poislb]

Brew one with the corn sugar and brew one with honey and compare the 2..

 

[nickmv]

Brew one with the corn sugar and brew one with honey and compare the 2..

I just posted earlier today about having 13lbs of 2012 harvest left. I'm definitely going to be experimenting.

Tons and tons of hop bombs are in the pipeline.

 

[tgmartin000]

My FWH experiments have been mixed so far. The couple beers I used only FWH and no bittering addition, and I felt those beers were a little under-bittered. They had appropriate IBU, but the bittering wasn't strong enough. They did have a killer aroma though.

If you do move some hops to FWH, make sure to keep some of your bittering addition.

 

[nickmv]

Noted. I've pretty much got til Wed @ first wort collection to decide if I'm gonna FWH.

 

[nickmv]

Does anyone have any thoughts on the Munich malt? Usually I just do 2 row and C60 in my IPAs, but I'm trying to add a bit of malty backbone since it's so high-gravity.

 

[poislb]

Does anyone have any thoughts on the Munich malt? Usually I just do 2 row and C60 in my IPAs, but I'm trying to add a bit of malty backbone since it's so high-gravity.

I love Munich malt, leave it as is.. Ya can always cut it back to half a pound instead of .75 if ya want..Ya also may wanna try victory or special roast malt If your not sure of the Munich.

I do an IPA that has victory and special roast in the grain bill....YUM!!!

 

[nickmv]

Haha cool, I was actually worried that I needed MORE. But I think it'll be great as is, and good to heard confirmation of that. I'm so used to using 93/7 2row/C60, so it's nice to change it up.