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

[StainlessBrewing]

After searching for how to get Pliny the elder (never had it and everybody raves about it) I stumbled on this thread. I love IPA's but my only big ones I have tried have been Hopslam and Sneaky Pete. Just spent a little over $70 for the ingredients and ready to brew this weekend. I bought the full amount of ingredients but only have a 6.5 gallon carboy. Was anyone able to go this route with a blow off tube or should I scale it back for a 5.5 or so?

 

[StainlessBrewing]

Anyone anyone......bueller?

 

[rossi46]

I certainly wouldn't go over 6 gallons in you fermenter.

 

[StainlessBrewing]

Didn't think so. I forgot to scale it down when buying the ingredients. I'll figure it out.

 

[jammin]

if you plug the recipe into brewersfriend.com - you can use their scale function.

you might also consider the added wort loss for all those hops.

 

[StainlessBrewing]

if you plug the recipe into brewersfriend.com - you can use their scale function.

Somebody already calculated it on here, I just wanted more of this beer! Thanks though.

 

[EricT]

When I made this I put exactly 6 gallons in my 6.5 gal carboy. I had to use a blow-off tube for sure, my yeast starter went nuts within 6 hours. The beer taste wonderful and the hop heads who have tried it love it.

 

[StainlessBrewing]

Things didn't go quite right Saturday night but I think it will still be amazing.
Now comes the real hard part.....waiting.

By zjosey at 2012-07-02

 

[idigg]

Going to brew this and pitch onto a US05 cake, because that is how I roll (I will have a very clean cake in 2 weeks). One question, I never used corn sugar (dextrose) in a beer before, do I add this in the 60min mash or during the boil? Any help is appreciated. Thanks for the awesome recipe BM

-justin

 

[osgood]

Looks awesome ... I think I'm going to try this with some pearl malt and a slightly different hop schedule.

Question ... Where did you get your water and did you add anything to it besides grain/hops?

 

[Bombeque]

Well I brewed this today. I did about 6.25 gallons and got a SG of 1.090. Im happy with that. It means that if I brewed the whole 6.5 I be right where I should have been. I just dont have the space to do the extra .25 gallon. Hopefully that doesnt affect the final product too much. Used the same amount of hops.

 

[idigg]

Brewed this tonight and ended up with 1.085 FG and 6 gallon post boil. This is the first time for me making an IIPA, and I learned a lesson LOL I dumped all 6 gallons in a 6.5 gallon bucket, on top of a clean US05 cake. 20 minutes later wort is foaming out of airlock. Hooked up a blow off tube right away and put it in a rubbermaid container with cold ice packs, holy crap. RDWHAHB? I hope the lid doesn't rip off tonight

 

[idigg]

Can't wait to try this, another 2 months probably. I'm going to transfer to secondary tonight for a month, and then bottle condition for a month before trying one. Waiting sucks!

 

[idigg]

Just racked to secondary, 5.4 gallons. Smelled delicious Can't wait to dry hop, I'm only doing 4oz that I have on hand.

1.084 > 1.014 = 9.17% ABV

My first big beer, I'd say I get awesome efficiency, even with big grain bills. I thought I was going to have issues with so much grain, so happy right now. I just bottled my dead ringer, and I am going to be bottling my first ever recipe in 2 weeks, kind of a pale ale recipe based of this recipe with hop bursting.

Cheers,
Justin

 

[Grinreaper]

Just like Idigg, mines dry hopping and i got 1.093 > 1.012 = 10.8% and the samplke was delicious. had to subtitute Summit for Columbus and Amarillo for centennial. Damn i really wish i had amarillo

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

This has been in the keg naturally carbing and conditioning for at least 2 months now. Brewed it and then had a catastrophe here at home ( tree fell on the house June 29th) so been busy trying to fix all that lol...probably toss it in the kegerator and tap it in a few days....looking forward to trying it.

 

[Rehlgood]

You may have answered this already. Are your hops pellets plugs or whole/leaf?

 

[StainlessBrewing]

This stuff is awesome! Still waiting for it to clear up a little more before taking a picture. Thanks for the recipe BierMuncher.

 

[Rehlgood]

Yayah!!! Guess what I'm doing tonight!

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

tapped this last night....pretty good stuff...almost no head at all but carbonated.. very sweet IMO even though it finished at 1.014......You can dfinitely tell it is high ABV.

 

[jasert39]

Finally tapped my keg today, a really good recipe. Going to need to be careful with this keg.

 

[idigg]

Brewed this on 7/12, bottled on 8/14. OG was 1.084 and FG was 1.014. I used 3.4oz of corn sugar. When I pour this, I get no head, and the beer is very thick. Is that how it's suppose to be? It tastes clean, but its very thick even though I mashed at 151-152*F and used 1lb of corn sugar at start of boil. Needs more time in bottle?

 

[BierMuncher]

Brewed this on 7/12, bottled on 8/14. OG was 1.084 and FG was 1.014. I used 3.4oz of corn sugar. When I pour this, I get no head, and the beer is very thick. Is that how it's suppose to be? It tastes clean, but its very thick even though I mashed at 151-152*F and used 1lb of corn sugar at start of boil. Needs more time in bottle?

Bigger beers will need more time to fully condition in the bottle. An IIPA is certainly a "fuller" tasting beer, but should not really be "thicker". Once the beer gets it's proper effervescence, that should lighten the profile substantially.

 

[HERMSman]

I have a Pliny clone on dry hops. I used hop extract, just like Vinnie. Tastes pretty awesome so far.

 

[idigg]

Okay... this is growing on me! 5 weeks in the bottle it is starting to get amazing. I'm just not used to such a rich beer I guess, never made a homebrew over 6%. I still have 50 bottles of this, I think I need to RDWHAB

 

[Rehlgood]

I snuck a taste of this after 3 weeks in primary and WOW this is good stuff! Tastes like fruit loops. Yum.

 

[ShinyBuddha]

Brewing this up this weekend. WLP090 on stirplate now. Thanks for the recipe BierMuncher!

 

[Rehlgood]

This is going to secondary on Friday. What is the best way to dry hop? In a bag? Straight in the carboy? In a keg?

 

[idigg]

I dry hopped in a muslim bag for 10 days. I sure had a hard time pulling 4.5oz of expanded hops out of a better bottle neck This beer is F'ing amazing. I would suggest a bag for SURE.

 

[patchedboard]

do you think it makes a huge difference if i mixed up the 1.25 oz cascade with the big cent/amarillo/crystal infusion? like if i put them in backwards?