NE style IPA

[VolunteerBrewer]

Reasonably new to the brewing scene. This will be my 4th go and my 2nd partial mash. Wanted to get some feedback from anyone who is willing to see if I should tweak anything. Not attempting to clone any specific beer but just create a delicious hazy hoppy beer.

5 gallon batch - partial mash.

Grain Bill:

2.5 pounds row -2
1 pound row -6
1 pound flaked oats
half pound honey malt
half pound carapils
4.5 pounds DME

Grain in a bag with 9 quarts of water and sparge with 2 quarts

Should have about 2.5 gallons of water at this point

Add one gallon of water

Start boil with 3.5 gallons:

Hop schedule:
1 oz amarillo at 60 minutes
1 oz amarillo at 30 minutes
4.5 pounds DME at 20 minutes
1 oz mosaic at 10 minutes
1 oz mosaic at 5 minutes
2 oz mosaic at FO

at 170 degress whirlpool 4 oz of El Dorado

Chill wort to 62 degrees
Combine with additional 2 to 2.5 gallons

Pitch London 1318

dry hop 1 oz mosaic at 24 hours
dry hop 1 oz mosaic at 72 hours

Brewing 7/8 and bottling 7/16 or 7/22

 

[marjen]

I would replace the amarillo with something like columbus or warrior for bittering. Also maybe only .5 oz@ 60 mins.

Combine your 10/5/FO to just flameout. Also you need more hops in the dry hop. I usually DH 8 oz. you could break it up to 4 and 4 over two dry hops like you indicated. First one will probably be 48-72 hours then the next 5-7 days out.

 

[shecallsmeblue]

Also, consider adding some of the dry hops near the end of active fermentation. I read an article online that mentioned that this helps with the perceived "juiciness" of the hops.

 

[VolunteerBrewer]

Thank you for the feed back -

After more research and the input here I think I might change the following:

Increasing all fermentables by 1.2 ( borrowing a fermenter that can hold 6 gallons)

Replacing Carapils with flaked wheat

30 minute boil time instead of 60

1 ounce of warrior at 30 minutes for bittering

Added DME at 20 minutes

4 oz of mosaic at FO

4 oz el dorado whirlpool at 170 degrees

4 oz mosaic dry hop
4 oz galazy dry hop


4 ounces during active fermentation and 4 ounces as fermentation slows.

thoughts?