Double IPA Tits-Up Imperial IPA (3-Time Medalist - 2 Golds, 1 Silver)

[bovinejony]

Just brewed this up using a cooler/BIAB method with a few changes to recipe:

Used WL001 (was rescuing an old strain for a week or so and threw it in instead of US-05)
LHBS didn't have amarillo or centenial so I subbed crystal and cascade for amarillo and chinook for the centennial
Only added 0.5LB corn sugar since I forgot to pick some more up at the LHBS.

Everything went great except I only finished at an OG of 1.072, probably due to the half pound of sugar missing. Also, warning to future brewers, this recipe has so many hops that you will lose a lot of wort to trub and **** after whirlpooling during the cooling stage. So plan on brewing the 6.5 gallon batch, as even though I aimed for 6.5 I only ended up with a little over 5.5 gallons from the cooled brew kettle.

Thanks for the recipe, really looking forward to it.

 

[TheDrunkenRancor]

I just brewed this recipe as my third Imperial IPA, looking forward to it.

I scaled it a bit so it would be for 5.5 gallons though and because I'm lazy I left the hops at 1 oz each instead of scaling them to .85. We'll see how it works out. The wort tasted delicious!

Hit 1.075 most likely because I had a bit extra water and not enough corn sugar due to an order mix-up. No idea how the extra water happened considering the ridiculous amount the hops soaked up.

Either way, thanks for the recipe! Yeast took only ten minutes to start bubbling so she's all set. Can't wait!

 

[Perkt]

Brewed last weekend, except I'm coming up with the opposite experience of others; My OG is at 1.090. If this ferments out as expected I'm looking at a 10% abv, which is pretty intimidating, especially for my first high gravity beer. I'm working without controlled fermentation and am keeping this in the mid-60's. The anticipation is killing me, but having a glass of Pliny tonight to toast the inspiration that brought about what is shaping up to be an amazing homebrew!

 

[Mattbrc2001]

Tits-Up IIPA


Batch Size: 6.50 gal
Boil Size: 8.54 gal
Estimated OG: 1.082 SG
Estimated Color: 7.8 SRM
Estimated IBU: 100.5 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 64.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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18.00 lb Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM)
1.00 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM)
0.25 lb Honey Malt (25.0 SRM)
1.00 lb Corn Sugar (Dextrose) (0.0 SRM)

1.00 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [12.20%] (FWH)
1.00 oz Nugget [11.50%] (45 min)
1.00 oz Centennial [9.50%] (30 min)
1.25 oz Cascade [6.10%] (15 min)
1.00 oz Centennial [9.50%] (10 min)
1.00 oz Amarillo Gold [8.90%] (10 min)
1.00 oz Crystal [3.50%] (10 min)

1.00 oz Summit [16.50%] (Dry Hop 14 days)
1.25 oz Amarillo Gold [8.90%] (Dry Hop 14 days)
1.25 oz Cascade [6.10%] (Dry Hop 14 days)
1.25 oz Centennial [9.50%] (Dry Hop 14 days)

Mash at 153 for 90 minutes.

Pitch a butt load of Safale-50 slurry from a prior batch.


Looks crazy delicious!! Any recommendations on turning this into a partial mash recipe? Thanks!!

 

[flananuts]

I just weighed out the grain for my Hard Nipples IIPA inspired by the tits up IIPA recipe. 31lbs of grain has definitely got me a little freaked. I'm conditioning the grain before I grind so I end up with hopefully a good grain bed and not a s$&t show. I'm thinking that I may be able to sparge the grain for a "small" beer to do pale ale style. Having never done that before, any recommendations? I am spending quite some time online right now prepping for this one.

 

[flananuts]

Brewed this on my e-herms rig this morning. I killed it. Hit 80% brew house efficiency on a 70% recipe. I gained a full point and hit 1.091 on a goal of 1.08. I pitched wlp001 and the airlocks are bubbling within 4 hours of pitching. Oxygen is such a smart addition to the wort. Can't wait to drink this mutha

 

[mikee]

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[Hopdog1]

Couldn't wait and had this beer after only 3 wks in the bottle. WOW, it was freaking awesome. I did change the hop profile to bump it up to 100 IBU. Can't believe I have 10 gallons of this!!!

 

[flananuts]

It's been one week and the Ale's dropped 6 points and I'm racking to secondary for dry hopping to begin. Can't wait!

 

[flananuts]

Update. Finished at 1.01 with 9 gallons so I adjusted it to 10 due to the high ABV. The color is gorgeous and it's currently force carbonating right now. I did pull a sample and it reminded me of long trail brewmaster double ipa in color and mouthfeel but I'm a bit disappointed in the hop profile. I will reserve judgement to when it's properly carbonated. Has anyone experienced something solar to this before? The sample was at 40.6 deg when I tasted it.

Side note : I brewed this same recipe but for 15 gallons and the numbers were spot on for an American IPA and it's fermenting und pressure now. I do look forward to putting these up against each other in a few weeks.

 

[wildwest450]

This, the colder the beer, the more muted hop flavors become. Let it "warm" up a few minutes, you'll be surprised. I like drinking hoppy beers at 45f or so.


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[flananuts]

Will do. I went to check on my carbonation level and noticed the beer out post is leaking (muthaF). Usually my cornies are solid but this is a pita.

 

[BWELL1]

She'll get a full month in the primary. Then onto the secondary for at least 14 days on the dry hops.

I figure then she'll go to keg and into the garage at 45 degrees for at least 4-6 weeks.

I recon this will be fully drinkable sometime around St. Patti's day. I'll probably go right to bottles once it's carb'd up.

So since I am completely new to home brewing. How do you put beer in the keg then bottle it?

 

[flananuts]

Once you carbonate your beer to the desired pressure you can transfer using a number of methods. I use the combination of a picnic tap, racking cane, and bung to do a DIY counter pressure fill. I just lower the co2 pressure down to about 4-6 psi when filling.

 

[flananuts]

Update- this was a huge hit! I brought some into work and a friend who loves big beers told me he felt like he was high about 10 minutes after splitting a liter with me.

I also made a 15 gallon version using the same recipe minus the dry hop and it is freaking unbelievable.

This, the colder the beer, the more muted hop flavors become. Let it "warm" up a few minutes, you'll be surprised. I like drinking hoppy beers at 45f or so.


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[MongoloidMormon]

I brewed this on Dec. 17th and kegged it about three weeks later. It is so bitter that I can't drink it. It's mellowed to some extent over the last few weeks, but I'm worried about this brew. Has anyone that brewed this had a similar experience?

I'm tempted to pull it out of the kegerator and let it warm up so that it can age faster.

Thoughts?

 

[Horace]

I brewed this on Dec. 17th and kegged it about three weeks later. It is so bitter that I can't drink it. It's mellowed to some extent over the last few weeks, but I'm worried about this brew. Has anyone that brewed this had a similar experience?

I'm tempted to pull it out of the kegerator and let it warm up so that it can age faster.

Thoughts?

She'll get a full month in the primary. Then onto the secondary for at least 14 days on the dry hops.

I figure then she'll go to keg and into the garage at 45 degrees for at least 4-6 weeks.

I recon this will be fully drinkable sometime around St. Patti's day. I'll probably go right to bottles once it's carb'd up.

Room temp for 4-6 weeks would be a fair guess but three weeks to keg might be hard to overcome. Time is your friend.

 

[SFSpencer]

This is gonna be my next brew...cant wait.
Do you think i could get a decent partigyle out of this if i added some more grain after collecting my wort?

 

[AU_Bob]

Going to put a variation of this recipe to the test today. Cold outside, but that's not going to get in the way. Looking forward to the results....

 

[Jtd6628]

Started the mash about 30 min ago can not wait to have a glass of this. Followed the recipe but using new Safale 05 didn't have any washed. I only had to buy one oz of crystal for this already had enough of all the other hops which was great!

 

[flananuts]

So Tit's up tiny brother is also a massive hit! I overshot my efficiency and ended up with a 7% and did this as a primary only under pressure with no dry hop. I think I like this one even better than the IIPA.

 

[Grasslands]

This (or a slight modification) will definitely serve as my next brew. I haven't brewed an IIPA since my first AG botched batch of a Pliny clone.

Color me stoked.

 

[flananuts]

Question for past brewers. I noticed that as this continues to age in the keg there's a bit of a marshmallow finish(equate to creamy and slightly sweet malt finish). Anyone notice this as well?

 

[harley03]

Hello,

Getting ready to brew this recipe but am wondering when exactly is the corn sugar used.
Thanks

 

[flananuts]

I added mine in when I was just about to boil.

 

[mux]

Sound good

 

[harley03]

Thanks Flananuts that what I kind of thought!

 

[chalmer9]

Hey I was wondering if there is a way to convert this recipe down to 5 or 5.5 gallons? My boiling pot isn't large enough....thanks.

 

[Chriso]

Hey I was wondering if there is a way to convert this recipe down to 5 or 5.5 gallons? My boiling pot isn't large enough....thanks.

There is lots of brewing software out there to help you with recipes, some are for-pay like ProMash or BeerSmith while others are free. Google for them. Install, then add a new recipe. Input BM's recipe as given, then use the "Scale" feature if that software has one.

I ran it through BeerSmith 1.4 for you and got this. Here ya go

Batch Size: 5.00 gal Boil Size: 6.41 gal

13 lbs 13.5 oz Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 84.71 %
12.3 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 4.71 %
12.3 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 4.71 %
3.1 oz Honey Malt (25.0 SRM) Grain 1.18 %
12.3 oz Corn Sugar (Dextrose) (0.0 SRM)

0.76 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [12.20 %] (90 min) (First Wort Hop) Hops 28.3 IBU

0.76 oz Nugget [11.50 %] (45 min) Hops 21.8 IBU
0.76 oz Centennial [9.50 %] (30 min) Hops 15.1 IBU
0.95 oz Cascade [6.10 %] (15 min) Hops 7.8 IBU
0.76 oz Crystal [3.50 %] (10 min) Hops 2.6 IBU
0.76 oz Amarillo Gold [8.90 %] (10 min) Hops 6.7 IBU
0.76 oz Centennial [9.50 %] (10 min) Hops 7.1 IBU

0.96 oz Centennial [9.50 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) Hops -
0.96 oz Amarillo Gold [8.90 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) Hops -
0.96 oz Cascade [6.10 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) Hops -
0.77 oz Summit [16.50 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) Hops -

 

[jkendrick]

There is lots of brewing software out there to help you with recipes, some are for-pay like ProMash or BeerSmith while others are free. Google for them. Install, then add a new recipe. Input BM's recipe as given, then use the "Scale" feature if that software has one.

I ran it through BeerSmith 1.4 for you and got this. Here ya go

Batch Size: 5.00 gal Boil Size: 6.41 gal

13 lbs 13.5 oz Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 84.71 %
12.3 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 4.71 %
12.3 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 4.71 %
3.1 oz Honey Malt (25.0 SRM) Grain 1.18 %
12.3 oz Corn Sugar (Dextrose) (0.0 SRM)

0.76 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [12.20 %] (90 min) (First Wort Hop) Hops 28.3 IBU

0.76 oz Nugget [11.50 %] (45 min) Hops 21.8 IBU
0.76 oz Centennial [9.50 %] (30 min) Hops 15.1 IBU
0.95 oz Cascade [6.10 %] (15 min) Hops 7.8 IBU
0.76 oz Crystal [3.50 %] (10 min) Hops 2.6 IBU
0.76 oz Amarillo Gold [8.90 %] (10 min) Hops 6.7 IBU
0.76 oz Centennial [9.50 %] (10 min) Hops 7.1 IBU

0.96 oz Centennial [9.50 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) Hops -
0.96 oz Amarillo Gold [8.90 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) Hops -
0.96 oz Cascade [6.10 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) Hops -
0.77 oz Summit [16.50 %] (Dry Hop 14 days) Hops -

I'm new to homebrewing (well I just returned to the hobby after 19 years) and not familiar with these programs. do they allow you to scale by boil size? I'm still brewing in my kitchen with a 5 gallon kettle.