Friday, February 19, 2016

Brewing Massively Hopped IPA

I work at a homebrew supply store, and one of the perks of this job is that occasionally some of the local craft breweries' brewmasters will drop in. The guys from Other Half, an incredible NYC brewery, occasionally come in to distract us from our work with their delicious beer, and I pick their brains about how they make it.
Their beer often falls into the hop overload ipa beer styles. It turns out, the answer for many questions about how they make such tasty beer is "more hops." The brewer started looking at the price list for hops and cynically laughing about how much it would cost to do five gallons. I took this as a challenge? The result was this beer, which he later said "needs more hops." I agree, but it is still pretty awesome and very much in the "wow this delicious fruit juice is a beer" kind of ipa category-not much on the dank/resin/pine/scratchy side. The original plan was to use amarillo, centennial, and citra and call it "if it ain't broke," but none of those hops were available on brew day. I approve of this new combo, but I might bail on mandarina bavaria in a future brew and sub it with one of the crazy NZ hops that are so hot with the kids these days. I would also bump that warrior addition to like .75 to get a more intense bitterness, which this one is sort of lacking.

5.5 gallon batch, 68% mash efficiency.

9 # Golden Promise
1.5 # Vienna
0.5# Crystal 20
1# dextrose
Mash at 150 for 60 minutes
OG: 1.070
FG: 1.010
IBU: 69
0.5 oz Warrior  60 min
0.75 oz   El Dorado  15 min
0.75 oz Mandarina Bavaria 15 min
0.5 oz Simcoe  15 min
0.25 oz Amarillo  15 min
0.5 oz Mandarina Bavaria 5 min
0.5 oz El Dorado  5 min
0.25 oz Amarillo 5 min
0.25 oz Simcoe  5 min
0.75 oz Mandarina Bavaria 1 min
0.5 oz El Dorado  1 min
0.5 oz Simcoe  1 min
1.5 oz Amarillo  7 days Dry Hop
0.75 oz Simcoe 7 days Dry Hop
0.5 oz El Dorado 7 days Dry Hop

2 packs of Wyeast 1272 American II.

Force carbonated, disappearing at an alarming rate.

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