Sunday, September 1, 2013

Doin' Brewin' - Raise the Roofie IPA

I've been trying to nail down a house IPA recipe for a while now and I think I'm getting close.  This last one was mighty tasty but with one drawback.... 9.8% ABV!!!

I had a small mishap with a hydrometer before brewing this batch resulting in fragments of glass all over the kitchen floor.   So I saved some samples in the fridge for testing when the new hydrometer arrived in the mail.  In the meantime we were drinking this beer and waking up in the morning with surprising hangovers and memory loss.  By the recipe estimations this beer should have been about 6.3% and I still have no idea what happened.
When I first kegged this IPA I was concerned that it had maybe fermented at too high of a temperature in the summer heat.  I thought I was smelling an estery green apple aroma but now I think it was just the alcohol, which mellowed out after a week of conditioning.  The beer was left with a slight alcohol warmth going down.  It didn't turn out as hoppy as I was going for but I will attribute that to the 1.090 OG.  This one is a keeper and work in progress.  Looking forward to doing it as a repeat to compare the results.  

Open to comments or just try to Raise the Roofie yourself!


Batch Size5.000 galBoil Size5.750 gal
Boil Time60.000 minEfficiency70%
OG1.064FG1.016
ABV6.3%Bitterness63.9 IBU (Tinseth)
Color10.3 srm (Morey)Calories (per 12 oz.)214

Fermentables

Total grain: 13.498 lb
NameTypeAmountMashedLateYieldColor
Pale Malt (2 Row) USGrain9.998 lbYesNo79%2.0 srm
Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40LGrain15.998 ozNoNo74%40.0 srm
Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10LGrain15.998 ozNoNo75%10.0 srm
Munich MaltGrain1.500 lbYesNo80%9.0 srm

Hops

NameAlphaAmountUseTimeFormIBU
Simcoe13%0.750 ozBoil60.000 minPellet29.7
Simcoe13%1.000 ozBoil25.000 minPellet27.6
Zythos10.9%1.000 ozBoil5.000 minPellet6.6

Yeast

NameTypeFormAmountStage
Safale S-05AleDry2.232 tspPrimary

And a "brewery" is named....

People are always asking me what my beers are called or what I call my "brewery".  Until now I haven't been inspired to come up with names for my beers or my "brewery".  I just want to brew beer, so I call them to style and creativity of naming is up for grabs.  And I've had a couple named, such as the Blonde Bitch and the Raise the Roofie IPA.  I've got the chalk board where the stats are posted for the beers in my nameless two keg kegerator system.

So the conversation goes a little something like this.  My roomate tells a friend about me and in miscommunication I am later asked how my kids are.

Kids?   No no, I have no kids.

My roommate interjects, not kids, kEgs.  I told you she has two kegs.  You know, Kelly no kids.... Kelly 2 Kegs!

Friend reply's, is she Ute?

We have a laugh and I fondly remember the days of being referred to on the Navajo reservation as "travels with growlers".  Because every knows you have to be ready with a growler in the car in case you come across a beer at a brewery that you must take home.  And the second best way to share beer, after of course having people over for a pull on the taps, is to take growlers of homebrew to gatherings. 

I've sat with the nick name Kelly 2 Kegs or just Two Kegs for about a week now and I thinks it's sticking.  So a "brewery" is named, and it shall be called...