American IPA My 2-time gold winning American IPA

[brick_haus]

Brewing my second batch today. I brewed the first batch as per protocol and it was awsom. I hope the second is as good.

 

[redspy]

Kegged up my second batch. It's delicious. FG came in at 1.010 so I got about 5% ABV. Not bad. Will be making this in the future for sure.

 

[white_trashed_brewery]

We are making a batch Monday or Tuesday and a guy at my lhbs was buying the grain bill for it to today

 

[sundell]

Brewing this this weekend, sounds fantastic.

 

[pulseyou]

Brewing a 5 gallon batch of this on Tuesday!

 

[MrIPA]

I brewed this a few weeks ago. It turned out awful! Do Not Brew!!!


Jk. It turned out great. Brew away. Thumbs up on this one

 

[pdiddlemcgriddle]

Brewed this tonight. Boil got away from me. Ended up with 4.5gal of wort. Ended up with an OG of 1.082. Pitched onto a yeast cake from a previous batch using WLP 001.

Should I compensate with extra dry hops to compensate the higher gravity? Any thoughts would be much obliged.

 

[anico4704]

Brewed this tonight. Boil got away from me. Ended up with 4.5gal of wort. Ended up with an OG of 1.082. Pitched onto a yeast cake from a previous batch using WLP 001.

Should I compensate with extra dry hops to compensate the higher gravity? Any thoughts would be much obliged.

This beer is pretty forgiving, if theres lower ibu it wil be good if there is higher ibu it would be good. I say just leave it as the bitterness isnt going to go up regardless anymore since the boil is done. Adding hops now will just add flover and aroma, mostly aroma.

 

[golfduke]

Man, I kinda screwed the pooch on this one tonight. It just goes to show you that rushing=\= results. Mash went perfectly, run offs looked good, and my preboil gravity was bang on.

I went to transfer it to the Carboy and ended up with almost 6gal of wort at only 1.059. What the hell? How does that happen? Well, when your idiot self is used to doing 60 minute boils and doesn't realize that beer smith calls for 90, your og and volume will be way off.

I hope it comes out okay, but I think regardless, this one is going to get a re-do soon.

 

[MaltedBayerl]

I just did the same thing. I swear it said 60 minute boil. O.G. is 1.064 with an extra half gallon. Oh well. That's what I get for inebriated planning.

 

[fortyseven]

I'm interested in the OP's, and everyone else's, quart to lbs ratio and mashing / sparging technique, since the recipe does not specify.

Also, how long did it take to completely ferment out? Was it a quick one? or did it take some time to get down to the FG?

 

[slcdawg]

Just tried my first sample of this IPA after kegging and carbing. Gotta say, its fantastic. Hoppy, without being bitter. Grapefruit finish. Definitely brewing this one again! Thanks for the recipe.

 

[sundell]

Dry hopped with 2 oz leaf hops and a boiled bag of marbles in an extra large herb ball. Gravity @ 1.010. Tastes great!

 

[golfduke]

I'm bottling this tonight. 1.010 here as well with US-05. Sample smells amazing.

 

[eLborracho]

Brewed this recipe last night. Hit 94% eff... Smelt great during boil... Couldn't find any torrified wheat so substituted flaked. Anxiously anticipating this one. Thank you for sharing this.

 

[eLborracho]

Brewed this one again tonight! Can't wait for the final product!

 

[bradpoff]

....that case do you have American Ale recipes you'd like to share!!

Fun to see this thread still going some 4.5 years later. I haven't made this in over 3 years. After making nothing but American ales for a few years i moved on to making German lagers and Belgian ales. I'm thinking I need to put this back in the rotation.

 

[eLborracho]

Any recommendations on amount of priming sugar for this batch?

 

[bleme]

Any recommendations on amount of priming sugar for this batch?

It depends on how warm your batch got after it was done fermenting and how fizzy you want it.

Use one of these calculators with 1.9 to 2.4 volumes:

http://www.northernbrewer.com/priming-sugar-calculator/
http://www.brewersfriend.com/beer-priming-calculator/
http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html

 

[Springsteenfan]

Can anyone tell me the sparge water temp after the mash for this recipe?
Thanks,
Jeff

 

[brick_haus]

I am now drinking my third batch (10 gallon batches!) of this recipe. I have used flaked and torrified wheat, both with great success. I fly sparge VERY slowly at 190*. This keeps the temp in the mash tun at ~170*. OG 1.072 FG 1.010. Besides the one time that I used flaked wheat, I follow the recipe as per protocol. Kudos to the OP for posting this great recipe.

 

[meis1212]

Brewed this per the recipe on Sunday. First ever all grain brew. Had to top it off a bit after that 90 min boil to get it back close to 5 gallons. Still hit an OG of 1.072. Can't wait till its ready to drink! Thanks OP!

 

[bradpoff]

Kegged my first batch of this yesterday, smelled fantastic. Force crab'ing now. Thanks for the recipe

 

[bradpoff]

Kegged my first batch of this yesterday, smelled fantastic. Force crab'ing now. Thanks for the recipe

Couldn't wait so cleared the bottom of the keg and had a taste (or two)....really, really good! AND in spite of me flubbing up the yeast addition. I cracked the White Labs vials and hadn't sanitized. Yeast bubbled out, ran down my hand, over the vials and into the beer!! The indicator that I 'consumed' too much while brewing was that I DID THE SAME DAMN THING WITH THE SECOND VIAL OF YEAST!

In the end, no infections. Beer is great now and will get better if it lasts a couple weeks!

Thank you, thank you for the recipe!!

 

[fortyseven]

I brewed this a few weeks ago

before:


after:

 

[brew_bro925]

Just brewed this last week for a buddy of mine visiting from Cali I'm leaving for 10 days on Monday and when I get back I plan to dry hop it for another week then bottle it, so hopefully it's carbonated by week 3 in bottles. Can't wait!!

 

[tripplehazzard]

Finally going to brew this today! !! Going to try it with some San Diego super yeast!!

 

[Bryan101]

what would be the boil volume if we boil for 90min, with a final volume of 5 gallon?

 

[bleme]

what would be the boil volume if we boil for 90min, with a final volume of 5 gallon?

Everybody's boil off rate is different. The average is about 1/gal per hour, so at that you would need 6.5 gallons.

You can guess closer by boiling some water for 15 minutes and extrapolating from there. You just need some way to measure your before and after volumes fairly accurately as any error is multiplied by 6.

 

[tripplehazzard]

Did anyone dry hop with less? ? When I took the og I tasted it and it seemed really hoppy already
I know this will fade a bit in fermentation but 2oz to dry hop seems like a lil much. And I'm a huge hop head