Brewday after a long (5 month break) - Kveik IPA

[BrannBrew]

After not brewing since July and as Silly(holiday) season approaching I'm inching to brew again. Just come back from San Francisco and after trying some delicious West Coast beers I thought to try my own, however I'm holding off on that idea until I have a few more of the style, just encase I was drinking through rose tinted glass.
I was digging around in my brew diary and found a competition recipe I hadn't brewed for a long time. It essentially was a fathers day brew using hops the same as my dad's initials that I entered the Strong Island Brewing Competition and came 5th in.
I've tweeked it slightly to use Odin Kveik yeast instead of US-05, having last used Ragnar Kviek yeast and making the best beer I brewed to date. Im sold on using them more.
Recipe as follows

Title: Allfather's IPA
Author: BrannBrew
Brew Method: All Grain
Style Name: American IPA
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 21 liters (fermentor volume)
Boil Size: 26 liters
Boil Gravity: 1.035
Efficiency: 70% (brew house)

STATS:
Original Gravity: 1.043
Final Gravity: 1.007
ABV (standard): 4.7%
IBU (tinseth): 48.67
SRM (morey): 9.3

FERMENTABLES:
1800 g - Maris Otter Pale (43.1%)
1800 g - Golden Promise (43.1%)
200 g - CaraMunich II (4.8%)
244 g - Caramel / Crystal 60L (5.8%)
134 g - Carapils (Dextrine Malt) (3.2%)

HOPS:
14 g - Belma, Type: Pellet, AA: 9.4, Use: First Wort, IBU: 20.07
7 g - Galaxy, Type: Pellet, AA: 15.1, Use: Boil for 10 min, IBU: 3.24
14 g - Belma, Type: Pellet, AA: 9.4, Use: Boil for 10 min, IBU: 6.61
7 g - Galaxy, Type: Pellet, AA: 15.1, Use: Boil for 5 min, IBU: 2.92
7 g - Cascade, Type: Pellet, AA: 7, Use: Boil for 5 min, IBU: 1.35
14 g - Belma, Type: Pellet, AA: 9.4, Use: Boil for 5 min, IBU: 3.64
14 g - Galaxy, Type: Pellet, AA: 14.25, Use: Whirlpool for 0 min at 80 °C, IBU: 2.66
28 g - Belma, Type: Pellet, AA: 9.4, Use: Whirlpool for 0 min at 80 °C, IBU: 3.51
28 g - Cascade, Type: Pellet, AA: 7, Use: Dry Hop for 3 days, IBU: 4.67
28 g - Galaxy, Type: Pellet, AA: 14.25, Use: Dry Hop for 3 days
28 g - Belma, Type: Pellet, AA: 9.4, Use: Dry Hop for 3 days

MASH GUIDELINES:
1) Infusion, Temp: 65 C, Time: 70 min, Amount: 15 L
2) Sparge, Temp: 74 C, Amount: 15 L
YEAST:
WHC Odin Kveik - Ferment at 30c

 

[user 18729]

Looks nice. I don’t think I’ve tried Belma, what are they like?

 

[BrannBrew]

Looks nice. I don’t think I’ve tried Belma, what are they like?

Has a faint strawberry flavour, need more than something like galaxy as its a subtle hop which could get overpowered, but from memory and what I have read it pairs well with Galaxy

 

[user 18729]

Has a faint strawberry flavour, need more than something like galaxy as its a subtle hop which could get overpowered, but from memory and what I have read it pairs well with Galaxy

That sounds interesting, definitely on my list of hops to try one day

 

[BrannBrew]

Brewday presented itself with a few challenges.... scales seemed to be slightly out for a start, then while the water was heating up the extension lead was cutting out. then when it came to flameout/whirlpool the thermometers, which were working fine during the whole morning started to play up and read mid forties just after I switched off the heat. So my whirlpool hops were added somewhere between flameout and whirlpool addition. I in the end had to transfer to the fermenter and wait till morning to get it to range of the kveik yeast. Which may have done more than I thought but doesn't seem to have been bubbling (when I have been checking on it) as much as the ragnar yeast I used back in July.
Going to take a hydro sample tonight (would have been 2 days since pitching to see the progress).