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American IPA • All Grain • 5 gal

BlizzardBrewing

Hydrometer broke, so no gravity reading to go off of here. 154* mash temp.

May 27, 2008 am 09:53am

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Ingredients (All Grain5 gal)

  • 8.5 lbs American 2-row

    American 2-row

    Yields a slightly higher extract than Six Rox brewers Malt. Tends to give a smoother, less grainy flavored beer. Some brewers claim they can detect a significant difference in flavor. Lower protein and will yield a lower color than Six-Row Brewers Malt

  • 2.5 lbs German Light Munich

    German Light Munich

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

  • .25 lbs Honey Malt

    Honey Malt

    Nutty honey flavor. For brown ales, Belgian wheats, bocks and many other styles.

  • .75 oz Simcoe® - 16.5 AA% whole; boiled 60 min

    Simcoe®

    Used for aromatic, and especially bittering properties.

  • .25 oz Simcoe® - 16.5 AA% whole; boiled 15 min

    Simcoe®

    Used for aromatic, and especially bittering properties.

  • 1 oz Amarillo® - 9.8 AA% whole; boiled 15 min

    Amarillo®

    Grown in Washington. A newer multi-use hop with a nice citrus-flower bouquet and medium-high acid content suited for bittering. Used in American Ales and IPAs.

  • 1 oz Glacier - 9.8 AA% whole; added dry to secondary fermenter

    Glacier

    An excellent new variety with balanced bittering properties combined with a good aroma profile.

  • Fermentis S-04 Safale S-04

    Fermentis S-04 Safale S-04

    A well-known, commercial English ale yeast, selected for its fast fermentation character and its ability to form a very compact sediment at the end of the fermentation, helping to improve beer clarity. This yeast is recommended for the production of a large range of ale beers and is specially well adapted to cask-conditioned ales and fermentation in cylindro-conical tanks. Sedimentation: high. Final gravity: medium. Pitching instructions: Re-hydrate the dry yeast into yeast cream in a stirred vessel prior to pitching. Sprinkle the dry yeast in 10 times its own weight of sterile water or wort at 27C ± 3C. Once the expected weight of dry yeast is reconstituted into cream by this method (this takes about 15 to 30 minutes), maintain a gentle stirring for another 30 minutes. Then pitch the resultant cream into the fermentation vessel. Alternatively, pitch dry yeast directly in the fermentation vessel providing the temperature of the wort is above 20C. Progressively sprinkle the dry yeast into the wort ensuring the yeast covers all the surface of wort available in order to avoid clumps. Leave for 30 minutes and then mix the wort e.g. using aeration.

Notes

Simcoe=Summit

Style (BJCP)

Category: 14 - India Pale Ale (IPA)

Subcategory: B - American IPA

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.056 1.056 - 1.075
Terminal Gravity: 1.013 1.010 - 1.018
Color: 7.8 SRM 6 - 15
Alcohol: 5.6% ABV 5.5% - 7.5%
Bitterness: 71.0 IBU 40 - 70

Discussion

toppoppa

Looks tasty!

2008-05-29 12:15pm

Looks tasty! Let me know how it turns out. The s04 is that the whitbread?

BlizzardBrewing

Whitbread strain?

2008-05-29 1:02pm

Yes, I have been happy in the past with this yeast. I am a little afraid on this batch though as, I have no idea where the gravity came in. The readings I was getting was 1.042, but I noticed the crack in the hydrometer after, so who knows. I feel I am starting to dial in on my IPA's though, and a big part of that is keeping it simple.

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