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Quicksilver's GIQ for me and you

Quicksilver's GIQ for me and you

Imperial IPA • All Grain • 11 gal

spothier

My first Imperial IPA

November 24, 2014  04:23pm

5.0/5.0 1 rating

Ingredients (All Grain11 gal)

  • 17.00 lbs Pale Ale Malt;Rahr

    Pale Ale Malt;Rahr

    A principal ingredient of cask ales using heritage barleys.

  • 13.0 lbs Canadian 2-Row Malt;Canada Malting

    Canadian 2-Row Malt;Canada Malting

    Traditional, premium grade 2-Row malt made from the finest Canadian barley malt varieties. This malt is a suitable base for all beer styles.

  • 5 lbs German Light Munich

    German Light Munich

    For a desired malty, nutty flavor. Lagers, Oktoberfests and bock beer.

  • 3 lbs 2-Row Brewers Malt;Briess

    2-Row Brewers Malt;Briess

    Mild malty flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • Base malt for all beer styles • Smoother, less grainy flavor than 6-Row Brewers Malt. • Slightly higher yield than 6-Row Brewers Malt. • Slight lower protein than 6-Row Brewers Malt. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • 2.0 oz Warrior® -18.9 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Warrior®

    New hop with much potential. Very stable.

  • 1.0 oz Columbus -19.5 AA% pellets; boiled 30 min

    Columbus

    Used mainly for bittering with some flavor qualities as well. Aroma is pleasant.

  • 2.0 oz Centennial -10.0 AA% pellets; boiled 5 min

    Centennial

    Aromatic but acceptable for bittering. Medium aroma with floral and citrus tones. Good in medium to dark ales.

  • 2.0 oz Citra® -12.0 AA% whole; boiled 1 min

    Citra®

    Citra™ is a special aroma hop variety developed by the Hop Breeding Company (a joint venture between John I. Haas, Inc. and Select Botanicals Group, LLC). It was released in 2007. Citra™ has fairly high alpha acids and total oil contents with a low percentage of cohumulone content. The variety imparts interesting citrus and tropical fruit characters to beer.

  • 3 oz Centennial -9.7 AA% pellets; added dry to secondary fermenter

    Centennial

    Aromatic but acceptable for bittering. Medium aroma with floral and citrus tones. Good in medium to dark ales.

  • 3 oz Zythos™ -9.4 AA% pellets; added dry to secondary fermenter

    Zythos™

    Zythos is a customized IPA/Pale Ale style pellet blend designed to embody the powerful tradition and unique aroma characteristics required in premium craft brews…Zythos is not a replacement for proprietary varieties, but rather a premium pellet blend designed to compliment existing IPA/Pale Ale lineups. Zythos can be used as a single hop addition or as a compliment to current inventories, imparting distinct tropical (pineapple) and citrus tones with slight pine characteristics.—Don Bryant, Hopunion LLC

  • Wyeast1272American Ale II™

    Wyeast1272American Ale II™

    Fruitier and more flocculant than 1056, slightly nutty, soft, clean, slightly tart finish.

Notes

Kind of a Pliny the Elder clone with the ingredients I had. I used 9 ounces of Cascade homegrown hops and added them to the mash. This has more hops than Bugs Bunny. Mashed at 150F for 90 minute. Sparged at 170 F for 1 hour. Ended up with more wort than I aimed for so I did a 2 hour boil to get my brix higher. Ended up with 10 to 10.5 gallons with Brix of 18 % Should be 10% or so alcohol. Used a Blichmann chiller to chill to 70F used oxygen to aerate , pitched my Wyeast American Ale II and placed on a dog heater pad.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 14 -India Pale Ale (IPA)

Subcategory: C -Imperial IPA

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.088 1.075 -1.090
Terminal Gravity: 1.015 1.010 -1.020
Color: 11.1 SRM 8 -15
Alcohol: 9.6% ABV 7.5% -10%
Bitterness: 103.3 IBU 60 -120

Discussion

spothier

For you younger folks

2014-11-24 4:43pm

A GIQ stands for Giant Imperial Quart. It' what we drank in the 60's

spothier

Dry hopped

2014-12-05 12:32pm

I racked to the secondary today and added 3 oz of Centennial and 3 oz of Zythos (1.5 oz of each to two 5 gallon secondary carboys). Tasted great with some residual sweetness and nice an hoppy bitterness and flavor. Another week or so and I'll bottle it. I think this could be a winner :-)

spothier

Corked and caged

2014-12-14 1:44pm

I corked and caged 5 gallons yesterday. If anything this is just getting better. It had nice citrus and piney flavor and a great hop nose. Flat it reminds me for Fiddlehead or Heady Topper IPA's. Hopefully it still will after carbonation.

spothier

Primed and taste tested

2014-12-23 9:49pm

It came out great but the final flavor reminds me of Bell's Two Hearted Ale or Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA. Nice hop aroma, decent long lasting head, enough alcohol but no hot flavor, plenty of bitterness balanced with a sweetness of the malt flavor. I think it will be a big hit with people who like highly hopped IPA's. I'll be playing with making variations of this again :-)

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