IPA brewed after a long hiatus and a number of equipment upgrades, including the capability of fly sparging, purchase of a plate chiller, and addition of a chilling coil in the conical fermenter. Oh, and I have pumps. 2 pumps. An I’m Gonna Use’em.<\/p>\n
This was originally planned as a NEIPA, however I didn’t have quite the hop complement in the freezer that I needed, and I didn’t have exactly the yeast (something that is known to bioconvert hop oils), so I went with a “kindabutnotreally”NEIPA (maybe should consider that for the name?).<\/p>\n
Recipe Type:<\/strong>\u00a0All Grain 4tsp Gypsum, 0.25+ (heaping) tsp Salt, 0.75tsp Calcium Chloride in the strike water<\/p>\n 16# 2-row Strike with 180\u00b0 water, ~7? gal, mash temp starting 152\u00b0 at 9:35am<\/strong> (perfect!! BrewPal said 6.3 gallons of 175\u00b0 strike water, but I am finding that adding about 5 degrees can account for heat loss through water transfer during mash-in)<\/p>\n 1 Whirlfloc @ 10 minutes<\/p>\n 2oz CTZ (15%) FWH I have to say, I pretty much hit all of my numbers for the first time in a while \ud83d\ude42 Target mash temp hit on the dot, OG: 1.059 predicted by Brewer’s Friend, I hit 1.058. This new setup is DOPE<\/p>\n pitched at ~2pm<\/p>\n UPDATE 3\/5\/18: checked at 8am and observed the beginnings of krausen, with infrared temperature holding steady at 65\u00b0<\/p>\n UPDATE 3\/6 am: The outside of the conical fermenter read 66\u00b0 this morning. Tame krausen evident.<\/p>\n UPDATE 3\/6 pm: The outside of the conical fermenter read 70\u00b0 this evening. Delicious odor of fermentation apparent.<\/p>\n UPDATE 3\/7 am: The outside of the conical fermenter read 66\u00b0 this morning. I opened the lid to a bright, harsh waft of CO2, and the top of the krausen read 66.2\u00b0. And, the beer smelled amazingly tasty.<\/p>\n UPDATE 3\/7 pm: Outside fermenter and inside krausen both read 67\u00b0. I added 1oz Mosaic, 1oz Simcoe, and 1.5oz Cascade \ud83d\ude42 Smelled INCREDIBLE (the beer, and the hops), can’t wait to taste it!<\/p>\n UPDATE 3\/9 am: Checking every morning and evening, and the temps on the outside of the fermenter are between 65\u00b0 and 67\u00b0 … keeping it low and slow, that is the tempo, and I like it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n UPDATE 3\/12: fermenter reads ~64*. Yesterday I pulled 2.5 pints from the side port, and collected some rather thick (compared to past attempts when I \u201cwashed\u201d yeast) layers of creamy yeast. Hurray!<\/p>\n UPDATE 3\/15: the beer has looked relatively clear for a few days through the frosted side of the conical. I pulled another head of yeast and then hydrometer sample, and the hydrometer read 1.008. I think she’s near ready. Oh, and that plan for a ~5% beer turned into a typical 6.75% IPA. Woohoo?? (For the life of me, I can’t seem to figure out how to brew a session IPA). Gonna keg it tomorrow!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IPA brewed after a long hiatus and a number of equipment upgrades, including the capability of fly sparging, purchase of a plate chiller, and addition of a chilling coil in the conical fermenter. Oh, and I have pumps. 2 pumps. An I’m Gonna Use’em. This was originally planned as a NEIPA, however I didn’t have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,7,97,131,6,42,8,117,137,81,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-row","category-cascade","category-ctz","category-german-wheat","category-hops","category-ipa","category-malt","category-melanoidin","category-mosaic","category-safale-s-05","category-simcoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/home.kimusubi.net\/beer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYeast:<\/strong>\u00a0SafAle 05 (3 packets)
\nYeast Starter:<\/strong>\u00a0none
\nBatch Size (Gallons):<\/strong>\u00a0intended 11
\nOriginal Gravity:<\/strong> 1.058
\nFinal Gravity: <\/strong>1.008 (~6.75% ABV)
\nIBU:<\/strong> 67
\nBoiling Time (Minutes):<\/strong>\u00a060
\nColor:<\/strong> 6 SRM
\nPrimary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp):<\/strong> 12 days at ~65\u00b0, dropping down to ~61\u00b0 toward the end of fermentation (due to cellar temps)
\nSecondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp):<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n4# German Wheat
\n2# Melanoidin<\/p>\n
\n1oz Cascade (6.3%) @ 10 min
\n1oz Cascade (6.3%) in whirlpool (starting at 180\u00b0, then adding plate chiller until pitch at 65\u00b0)
\n1oz each Mosaic (12%), Simcoe (12.9%), 1.05oz Cascade (6.3%)\u00a03 days into fermentation<\/p>\n