{"id":97,"date":"2013-11-08T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/?p=97"},"modified":"2013-11-08T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T02:42:00","slug":"ipa-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/08\/ipa-time\/","title":{"rendered":"IPA Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hard to believe, but Brew It Right\u2122 hasn’t brewed an IPA since early July.\u00a0 So we decided to dig into this one by researching the ingredients and statistics of a number of IPAs we enjoy and respect, and construct rough parameters and ingredient options based on them.\u00a0 Then we created a unique recipe within this framework and brewed it.\u00a0 We will continue refining this recipe until we Brew It Right\u2122.<\/p>\n

Within the Parameters<\/h5>\n

Using ingredients and characteristics of the research beers (Fulton Sweet Child of Vine, Summit Unchained #6, Summit Silver Anniversary Ale, Summit Saga IPA, Surly Furious, Hopworks Organic IPA, and Bell’s Two-Hearted), we wanted to brew an IPA within the following ranges:<\/p>\n

IBU: 60 - 70\r\nSRM: 5 - 20\r\nABV: 6.1% - 6.5%\r\nOG: 1.057 - 1.065\r\nFG: 1.010 - 1.015\r\nHops: Centennial, Amarillo, Simcoe, Citra\r\nMalt: 2-Row (US and British), Golden Promise, Crystal, Munich<\/pre>\n
Some of the beers feature less-used hops (Rakau, Palisade, Glacier, Boadicea, Pilgrim), but we’re sticking with American hops.\u00a0 We’ll branch out to include some Golden Promise for a bit more sweetness and depth.\u00a0 Since we’re not a huge fan of crystal-bombs, the C60 is only 4% of the grain bill, and there’s a bit of roast barley thrown in for color because nobody had Black Patent lying around.\u00a0 Target OG is 15.4 Plato (1.063).<\/p>\n
The Brew<\/h5>\n
\"Mash<\/a>
Mash time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The mash got off to a great start, hitting mash temp exactly at 151F.\u00a0 After about 75 minutes of mashing, sparge first runnings resulting were 14.75 Plato (1.060), and the first four gallons at 14 Plato (1.057).\u00a0 Unfortunately, the sparge went long, ending up with about 8 gallons at 10.5 Plato (1.044), and the required boil gravity got mis-calculated, requiring a long boil-off.\u00a0 An hour later the actual boil started with 6.5 gallons of what was later discovered to be 12.4 Plato (1.050) wort.<\/p>\n
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Happy as a clam, if clams fermented<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Upon realizing that the 45 minute hop addition had been forgotten, it was added along with the 30 minute hops instead.\u00a0 But not to fear, 45 minute hop additions don’t really contribute that much flavor over 60 or 30 additions.\u00a0 Next time this is brewed, we’ll skip the 45 minute and bump up the 60 and the 30 minute additions to compensate.<\/p>\n
The boil resulted in 4.75 gallons of 18 Plato wort (1.074) chilled and kegged, with rehydrated US-05 yeast pitched and fermentation set at 67\u00b0F in the fermentation chamber.<\/p>\n
Racking to Secondary<\/h5>\n
Wow, what an awful taste.\u00a0 First off, too sweet, and the aroma hops (mostly Cluster) just don’t work with the sweetness of the malt.\u00a0 Maybe it will get better with time, but we certainly know what we won’t<\/em> do in the future: pair a large amount of Golden Promise with late-addition Cluster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hard to believe, but Brew It Right\u2122 hasn’t brewed an IPA since early July.\u00a0 So we decided to dig into this one by researching the ingredients and statistics of a number of IPAs we enjoy and respect, and construct rough parameters and ingredient options based on them.\u00a0 Then we created a unique recipe within this … Continue reading IPA Time<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}