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 Size | 5.000 gal | Boil Size | 5.750 gal |
Boil Time | 60.000 min | Efficiency | 70% |
OG | 1.064 | FG | 1.016 |
ABV | 6.3% | Bitterness | 63.9 IBU (Tinseth) |
Color | 10.3 srm (Morey) | Calories (per 12 oz.) | 214 |
Fermentables
Total grain: 13.498 lb
Name | Type | Amount | Mashed | Late | Yield | Color |
Pale Malt (2 Row) US | Grain | 9.998 lb | Yes | No | 79% | 2.0 srm |
Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L | Grain | 15.998 oz | No | No | 74% | 40.0 srm |
Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L | Grain | 15.998 oz | No | No | 75% | 10.0 srm |
Munich Malt | Grain | 1.500 lb | Yes | No | 80% | 9.0 srm |
Hops
Name | Alpha | Amount | Use | Time | Form | IBU |
Simcoe | 13% | 0.750 oz | Boil | 60.000 min | Pellet | 29.7 |
Simcoe | 13% | 1.000 oz | Boil | 25.000 min | Pellet | 27.6 |
Zythos | 10.9% | 1.000 oz | Boil | 5.000 min | Pellet | 6.6 |
Yeast
Name | Type | Form | Amount | Stage |
Safale S-05 | Ale | Dry | 2.232 tsp | Primary |
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