Recipe with equinox hops?

[Desertbrewer]

UPDATE: Ok, so I finally I had some empty kegs and racked the IPA them. The first keg I kegged hopped with 1 oz of Equinox, Simcoe, and Columbus. The second keg with 1oz of Equinox, Mosaic, and Columbus. After a week carbing the first keg tasted good. The Columbus was a little sharp but knew it would settle down. So after two weeks, it is a lot more balanced. Now it is simply amazing. The flavor is lime, citrus, diesel, pine, dank with tropical undertones. There is a resiny punch from the Columbus at the end. The nose is awesome too. Very crisp and easy to drink, too easy. This was my first time using Pearl malt and it gives it a good biscuity, bready backbone to layer hops with. The second keg with the mosaic is equally as good, definitely some more tropical notes there. The golden naked oats adds like a oat cereal taste and adds to the mouth feel. I am trying to steer clear of crystal malts and I think adding some layers of higher lovibond base malts helps add complexity.

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Here is mine; all GW 2 row OG 1.065, fermented with Conan. 2:2:.75 parts Equinox, Simcoe and Columbus. I agree about the sharpness, but over the past few days it has calmed down to a nice level. Definitely get a lot of the same flavor descriptors as you; dank, lime sorbet, pine, lime zest, diesel/resin, papaya, Juicyfruit gum... very complex hop profile. Made it a few IBU too bitter I think, but still super drinkable and delicious. Not for the faint of heart, it's a pretty intense experience.

 

[BrewSomeMore]

Definelty not for the faint of heart. This recipe is something I would brew again. My previous brew was a NE style IPA. I loaded it with mostly flavor/aroma hops, 12 oz of hops per 5 gallons. It's is very good, but miss the bitterness bite from boil addition hop. This recipe has real good flavor/aroma and a bitterness kick.

 

[Desertbrewer]

Definelty not for the faint of heart. This recipe is something I would brew again. My previous brew was a NE style IPA. I loaded it with mostly flavor/aroma hops, 12 oz of hops per 5 gallons. It's is very good, but miss the bitterness bite from boil addition hop. This recipe has real good flavor/aroma and a bitterness kick.

Exactly the same here. Been doing ipas/pale ales with very low bittering hops and just a large flameout/whirlpool addition and just as you, started missing the bitter bite that defines IPA. Think in this one (5gallon batch) I tried .5 oz mash hop, .75 oz 60, both Columbus, .5 oz Simcoe (20), .5 oz Simcoe (15), 1 oz Columbus 10 then 2 oz each of Simcoe and Equinox at flameout then a 30 min hop stand. Calculated, it's like 150 IBU or something crazy... definitely doesn't that intense, but maybe next time I'd skip the mash hop and maybe shift some of those boil hops back by 5-10 mins and it'd be perfect WC IPA.

 

[BubbaBrewer78]

I just did this one and it turned out pretty good.
https://beerandbrewing.com/366-extra-brett-pale-ale-recipe/

 

[Raoul_Duke_PhD]

Here's my 2016 GABF Pro Am silver medal recipe. That's if you like English IPAs.

https://ibb.co/e6MKkk

 

[maxxxx]

OK updated recipe. Sub crystal 20 for golden naked oats. Added 2 more oz to whirlpool and to dry hop.

The Dankness

American IPA (14 B)



Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 10.50 gal
Boil Size: 11.44 gal
Boil Time: 60 min
End of Boil Vol: 10.94 gal
Final Bottling Vol: 10.10 gal
Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage


Date: 03 Feb 2017

Equipment: 10 gal Home depot cooler
Efficiency: 85.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 85.0 %
Taste Rating: 30.0


19 lbs Pearl Malt, (Thomas Fawcett) (3.0 SRM) Grain 1 86.4 %
2 lbs Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 2 9.1 %
1 lbs Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain 3 4.5 %
2.00 oz Apollo [17.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 4 55.3 IBUs
1.00 oz Equinox (HBC 366) [15.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 5 8.8 IBUs
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 6 7.7 IBUs
2.00 oz Equinox (HBC 366) [15.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 30.0 min Hop 7 18.7 IBUs
2.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 30.0 min Hop 8 16.2 IBUs
1.0 pkg American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056) [124.21 ml] Yeast 9 -
2.00 oz Equinox (HBC 366) [15.00 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 10 0.0 IBUs
2.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 11 0.0 IBUs


Gravity, Alcohol Content and Color

Est Original Gravity: 1.067 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.016 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.8 %
Bitterness: 106.7 IBUs
Est Color: 5.9 SRM

85% efficiency is pretty good. What's your process?

 

[BrewSomeMore]

I set my grain mill very fine. There is some dust but get no astringent or tanic flavors. Also, I fly sparge. Just remember to drain slow, it will definitely help in efficiency. I started out doing all-grain batch sparging but turns out I was doing a hybrid fly sparge cause I didn't know what I was doing. I finally settled on straight fly sparging because I didn't have to mix grain and vorlauf several times.