Project IIPA

[bigchristheman]

Any help would be great. I have not brewed anything this big or this hoppy so
I was hoping for some critiques from people who have.

I love IIPA's like Ruination, Pliny, and Tricerahops, and wanted to try something
along those lines. Light malt body. Overwhelming aroma and flavor.

I am worried the Centennial might over power the Amarillo and Simcoe. I would
also split the dry hops in half, add half to the primary after 7 days for a week,
then rack on top of the second half in a secondary for 14 days.



Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: SafAle American Ale (DCL Yeast #S-05)
Yeast Starter: Slurry from previous batch
Batch Size (Gallons): 5.5
Original Gravity: 1.071
Final Gravity: 1.012
Boiling Time (Minutes): 60
Color: 6.7

12.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 88.24 %
0.50 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 3.68 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 3.68 %
0.60 lb Corn Sugar (Dextrose) (0.0 SRM) Sugar 4.41 %

1.50 oz Warrior [17.00 %] (60 min) Hops 85.6 IBU
1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] (15 min) Hops 16.7 IBU
1.00 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (15 min) Hops 14.2 IBU
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] (15 min) Hops 21.7 IBU

1.00 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) Hops -
1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) Hops -
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) Hops -


Let me know what you think!

 

[heywatchthis]

I personally add way more late hops in my IPA/IIPAs than you have...3 flavorish additions and no flameout doesn't seem exactly right to me. If you have more hops to work with, add 3oz or so at flameout. If not, take 2 oz of your flavor hops and move them to flameout.

Malt bill looks good, though this is more of an IPA than an IIPA. Up the sugar or base malt if you want to venture into the IIPA realm.

 

[bigchristheman]

I did 3 oz of flavor and 3 oz of dry in a way that Stone does for Ruination. The clone recipes i've seen for that has 2 oz cent at 15 mins and 2 oz for dry hop.

I have the extra hops so doing 3 oz at 15 mins, 3 oz at flame out and 3 oz dry hop would not be an issue.

I want this beer to be 8% - I plan to add the sugar during fermentation to try and get the FG down to 1.010 to be as dry as Pliny

 

[heywatchthis]

First, I would really recommend doing the extra at flameout...especially if you're wanting something more along the lines of Pliny.

Second, I just ran the numbers posted up top and got ~7.5% ABV. That was what led to my comment about the classification...it'll be a good beer either way.