The Chads IIPA

[cwhummel]

Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: Safale US-05
Batch Size (Gallons): 2.5
Original Gravity: 1.077
Final Gravity: 1.21
IBU: 71.7
Boiling Time (Minutes): 60
Color: 8
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 10
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 10
Tasting Notes: n/a



So I haven't made this yet, I just wanna get your guys opinion and any recommendations before I brew. I'm a huge fan of Widmer Deadlift, and while I'm not really trying to make a clone, getting close to it wouldn't hurt.

4.5 lbs Pale LME
.75 lbs Cane Sugar
6oz Crystal 60L
2oz Belgian CaraMunich

boil 60 mins 0.5 Citra
boil 30 mins 0.25 Citra
boil 30 mins 0.25 Cascade
boil 15 mins 0.25 Cascade
boil 15 mins 0.25 Citra
boil 5 mins 0.25 Willamette
boil 5 mins 0.25 Cascade
boil 5 mins 0.25 Citra
post-boil 15 mins 0.25 Citra
dry hop 7 days 0.25 Cascade
dry hop 7 days 0.5 Citra
dry hop 7 days 0.25 Willamette

Let me know what you guys think. Thanks!

 

[Yooper]

That's nearly 15% simple sugar, if my quick math is right. I used 5% in my Pliny clone and it was enough.

I'm not a huge fan of citra, except in small amounts in dryhopping and flavor hops. If you like it, though, that's fine. I don't know the beer you're trying to clone, but you have a ton of "early" hops for bittering, but very few in the last 15 minutes. To me, a great IIPA has hops flavor and aroma additions and not just bittering additions. .75 ounce at 5 minutes isn't much, and I'm not sure you'll get much from the willamette over the citra (which is pretty intense), and .5 ounce for flavor hops isn't much either. But like I said, I've never head Deadlift, so I can't tell you if it's close or not to what you're going for.

 

[dcp27]

That's nearly 15% simple sugar, if my quick math is right. I used 5% in my Pliny clone and it was enough.

I'm not a huge fan of citra, except in small amounts in dryhopping and flavor hops. If you like it, though, that's fine. I don't know the beer you're trying to clone, but you have a ton of "early" hops for bittering, but very few in the last 15 minutes. To me, a great IIPA has hops flavor and aroma additions and not just bittering additions. .75 ounce at 5 minutes isn't much, and I'm not sure you'll get much from the willamette over the citra (which is pretty intense), and .5 ounce for flavor hops isn't much either. But like I said, I've never head Deadlift, so I can't tell you if it's close or not to what you're going for.

+1 to everything, except the hop amounts...kinda. Its only a 2.5gal batch, so those amounts aren;t that small, but being a IIPA it couldnt hurt to add more. Moving the 30min adds later into the boil should accomplish this.

 

[Yooper]

+1 to everything, except the hop amounts...kinda. Its only a 2.5gal batch, so those amounts aren;t that small, but being a IIPA it couldnt hurt to add more. Moving the 30min adds later into the boil should accomplish this.

Yeah, I guess that was my point. Thanks.

What my slightly inebriated thought was that I'd move some of those 30 minute hops to 10 minutes or 5 minutes, or even 1 minute, not ADD more hops to the recipe. Thanks for fixing that thought process for me dcp!

 

[cyraxx]

I agree with the above two posters, especially on the Willamette not coming through over the Citra and Cascade and moving the 30 min addition to later in the boil. I personally feel that a DIPA needs to have a BU:GU ratio of higher than 1, but that's only my opinion. It seems you are trying to work with full ounce increments of hops (except the Willamette). I would take that 0.5oz of Willamette and move it to 60 min with the 0.5oz of Citra to up the IBUs and then move around some of the later hop additions. I'd probably move the last two down by 5min (from 15 and 5 to 10 and 0 respectively) and then move the 30min to 20 min (which is where I like to do my flavor additions).

Other than that, scaling down the sugar and upping the LME would be preferable imo. But most importantly, brew the beer you want and learn from it. Let us know how it turns out.

 

[cwhummel]

Thanks for the input! I've been brewing for about a year now, and I've never actually made a recipe before. The main reason I used Citra was because my LHBS just finally got them in after going all year without them, so i picked up a few ounces just to make sure I always have some until next summer.

 

[cwhummel]

Brewed it up yesterday. Took the sugar down to 4oz, and made the hop adjustments you guys recommended. OG was 1.068.

 

[cwhummel]

this beer tastes freaking awesome! My best brew ever. FG 1.015

 

[cyraxx]

Glad to hear it...enjoy.

 

[wonderbread23]

If you're shooting for a Widmer beer, I'd hit it with some Nelson Sauvin hops.. I believe they tend to use these in their hop blend for almost all their hoppy beers.