Friday Night Brewing - American IPA (lots of pics)

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ChrisG

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Seems to becoming a regular occurrence and Friday night is always perfect for a brew.

This time its an American IPA and I changed the recipe a bit and used a full 100g of Cascade hops. Boil hops and aroma.......so lets see how this gets on.

Recipe: American IPA
Brewer: Chris
Style: American IPA
TYPE: All Grain

Start 7:00pm
Finish 11:30pm

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 25.00 L
Boil Size: 32.90 L
Estimated OG: 1.056 SG
Estimated Color: 6.7 SRM
Estimated IBU: 53.9 IBU
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.50 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 93.2 %
0.25 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 4.2 %
0.15 kg Wheat, Torrified (1.7 SRM) Grain 2.5 %
40.00 gm Cascade [7.30%] (60 min) Hops 28.8 IBU
30.00 gm Northern Brewer [8.50%] (60 min) Hops 25.1 IBU
20.00 gm Cascade [7.30%] (10 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep Hops -
40.00 gm Cascade [7.30%] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
1 Pkgs Nottingham Yeast

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The grains

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Using off cuts of pipe I hold in place my copper mash strainer, till I can get some clips.

Seems to work well. Strike water temp 80c.

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Mashed at 66c for 2 hours and didnt loose a degree even though it was 3 degrees outside! 14L of mash water.

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First runnings

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....and into the boiler

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Mushroom box doing its stuff. Sparged at around 75c. 26L sparge water.

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Checking gravity of wort run off and managed to finish at around 1010.

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Spent grains

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Boil hops (scales from Tesco btw £9.99...i think) temp shows its 8.5 degrees in my garage....bit cold!

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Boil hops in

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Last 10min and aroma hops.......all Cascade (hope I like them, not tried them before!!!!!)

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Cooling

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Running off into fermenting bin, nice colour and very clear.

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SG of 1052 just short of my original but thats fine just about as high as I wanted anyway.

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Wort finished running at exactly 5 gallons, good result!!!

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Used Nottingham yeast and just sprinkled it on to the wort.....lets see how it works.

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The End! ;) ;)

Really enjoyed this one a lot and Cascade hops seem good so far.

night night its past my bed time!!! ;)
 

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