Will it work (IIPA)

[bolty]

Hi All,

Trying to work out an IIPA after being inspired by Hardcore IPA.

Here is what I have at the mo:

Name : Hoppy Hardcore IPA (Will probably have to listen to some old mix tapes, while brewing it :) )

OG 1.076
IBU 107.6
SRM 8.3
ABV 7.5
90min mash @ 65-66
90 min boil

7000g Marris Otter
350g Crystal
500g Cara Pils
700g White Sugar

40g Pilgrim 9.46AA @ 90
20g Chinook 12.7AA @ 90
40g Aurora 8.1AA @ 90
40g Pilgrim 9.46AA @ 20
20g Chinook 12.7AA @ 20
20g Cascade 7.6AA @ 20
20g Brambling Cross 5.8AA @ 5
20g Cascade 7.6AA @ 5

Then a dry hop, with some of whatever hops I have left after this massacre? Any opinions/comments highly welcome, as this may be a goer on Monday!

 

[Aleman]

It will work, the recipe for Brewdog is here, so looking at it I would say that you are slightly under gravity (1.075 as opposed to 1.085) but thats not really important as Hardcore is Hopped to hell then Dryhopped to hell as well . . . what this means is that you are significantly underhopped at 100 IBU . . . you really need to up those bittering hops . . . ALthough having put your recipe into Promash and using the Tinseth formula I get somewhere close on 140 IBU

I would skip everything but the Pale malt - Ideally using the Extra Pale available from Brupaks, and 8 Kg gets you close to 1.083

Hopwise I am assuming you are using the American Hops you have which is cool, but I would change things around a bit . . . The Aurora are an incredible flavour hop so skip using them for bittering and use those as your Late 5 minute addition, with all the Chinook and pilgrim going in for 90 minutes, with the cascade and Bramling Cross going in for 15-20 minutes.

One tip I learned last weekend is that if you really want a big hop flavour, then your aroma addition should be the same size as your bittering . . . . . So if you use 120g (80 pilgrim 40 chinook) for bittering then ideally you want 120g of aroma hop.

The other thing to consider is that you don't really want a mish mash of hop flavour/aroma (especially aroma) so try and stick with one variety for aroma and dry hopping, Phil was telling me that he uses buckets of late hop in the Hoppy Helper and they are still more or less dry when he is digging them out of the copper afterwards!!

My modification of your recipe to bring it more in line with Hardcore would be

8 Kg Extra Pale Malt

80g Pilgrim 90 minute
40g Chinook 90 minutes

40g Cascade 20 minutes
20g Bramling Cross 20 Minutes

120g Aurora At Switch off of for a 30 minute Steep at 70C

10g/gallon of Aurora as a late hop