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What think you of this 5 gallon batch?

10 lbs MO
2 lbs 2-Row

.5 oz Columbus @ 60
1.5 oz Columbus @ 20
2.0 oz Simcoe @ 5
1.0 oz Columbus @ hop stand
1.0 oz Columbus dry hop 5 days
1.0 oz Simcoe dry hop 5 days

Yeast US-05

Mash @ 150 for 90 minutes
Boil for 90 minutes
 
What think you of this 5 gallon batch?

10 lbs MO
2 lbs 2-Row

.5 oz Columbus @ 60
1.5 oz Columbus @ 20
2.0 oz Simcoe @ 5
1.0 oz Columbus @ hop stand
1.0 oz Columbus dry hop 5 days
1.0 oz Simcoe dry hop 5 days

Yeast US-05

Mash @ 150 for 90 minutes
Boil for 90 minutes


That looks like it will turn into beer to me. I would personally up the 60 minute addition but I like more bitter than just about everybody. If it takes you a while to cool I guess the 20 min addition might give a lot of bitter though.

Why 90 minutes for the mash?
 
That looks like it will turn into beer to me. I would personally up the 60 minute addition but I like more bitter than just about everybody. If it takes you a while to cool I guess the 20 min addition might give a lot of bitter though.

Why 90 minutes for the mash?

I don't know. I usually only mash for 60 but read a 90 minute mash may be better for IPA. I don't recall the reasoning.

EDIT: and you hit on my thinking. I'll get more IBU from late additions due to the hop stand (slower chill)?
 
What think you of this 5 gallon batch?

10 lbs MO
2 lbs 2-Row

.5 oz Columbus @ 60
1.5 oz Columbus @ 20
2.0 oz Simcoe @ 5
1.0 oz Columbus @ hop stand
1.0 oz Columbus dry hop 5 days
1.0 oz Simcoe dry hop 5 days

Yeast US-05

Mash @ 150 for 90 minutes
Boil for 90 minutes


Send me the finished product and I'll give you a full 3 page write up including 8X10 glossy pictures on how it taste.

It sounds solid though. Can't go wrong when MO,Columbus, and simcoe are involved.
I did a Smash with MO and simcoe before and it turned out awesome.
 
I don't know. I usually only mash for 60 but read a 90 minute mash may be better for IPA. I don't recall the reasoning.

EDIT: and you hit on my thinking. I'll get more IBU from late additions due to the hop stand (slower chill)?


When I built a counter flow chiller I started doing 60 minute hop additions again, prior to that I was doing my first addition at around thirty and my final addition at about -5hrs, when the wort got down to about 90. I don't recall what temp you stop getting bittering from hops, but I remember being shocked how low it was and recall calculating that I could do all my hop additions after the boil of cooling in the sink. Didn't experiment with that too much as it was a read that made me built a chiller the next day.
 
That looks like it will turn into beer to me. I would personally up the 60 minute addition but I like more bitter than just about everybody. If it takes you a while to cool I guess the 20 min addition might give a lot of bitter though.

Why 90 minutes for the mash?


Some of my better beers have been when I forget to heat up the sparge water in time and end up mash for 80-90 mins. I don't know why though, I am just a simple caveman brewer.
 
Pull of my oak-barrel aged RIS. Snowing like crazy right now calling for 2-4") and we're supposed to get ice later tonight. Followed by another 7" on Thursday.
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Taking it easy. Have a meeting with the team in Tokyo in a few hours.


I'll take 7" on a Thursday. :fro:

Dr. Pepper with dinner. About to crack open either a creme brûlée or something else.
 
Drinking BBBC v5, and watching hockey. Got me some decent seats for dirt cheap for a game later this month. Stoked, since it's not often I can afford to go to a Caps game.

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Drinking BBBC v5, and watching hockey. Got me some decent seats for dirt cheap for a game later this month. Stoked, since it's not often I can afford to go to a Caps game.


Caps love to choke in the playoffs. I love it.
 
What think you of this 5 gallon batch?

10 lbs MO
2 lbs 2-Row

.5 oz Columbus @ 60
1.5 oz Columbus @ 20
2.0 oz Simcoe @ 5
1.0 oz Columbus @ hop stand
1.0 oz Columbus dry hop 5 days
1.0 oz Simcoe dry hop 5 days

Yeast US-05

Mash @ 150 for 90 minutes
Boil for 90 minutes

I think it looks good! I don't understand the 2 lb of 2 row? Is that for a color adjustment or something?
 
I was guessing that it was for only having 10 lbs of MO.

Water.

No. Really just because I've never done 100% MO and was looking for input as to a good grain bill. Just 12 lbs of MO, you think, then, and forget about getting cute?

EDIT: My past IPA attempts have not been great. Those had diverse grain bills, including crystal. I was thinking simple grain bill this time.
 
No. Really just because I've never done 100% MO and was looking for input as to a good grain bill. Just 12 lbs of MO, you think, then, and forget about getting cute?

EDIT: My past IPA attempts have not been great. Those had diverse grain bills, including crystal. I was thinking simple grain bill this time.


How about
6# - 2row
6# - MO
couple oz of crystal
 
No. Really just because I've never done 100% MO and was looking for input as to a good grain bill. Just 12 lbs of MO, you think, then, and forget about getting cute?

EDIT: My past IPA attempts have not been great. Those had diverse grain bills, including crystal. I was thinking simple grain bill this time.


I cannot imagine you would taste a difference between all mo or 75% mo with the balance 2 row. Your original plan looks fine to me. You have enough hops in your plan that a little bit of crystal for body, as others said, would be good... But mo has a lot going on as it is. I think your recipe will make beer, an beer is amazing.
 
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