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Author:

Grain2Glass

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.059

Efficiency: 66

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/3/2021 5:42 AM

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Author:

gbates

Boil Size: 6.2 Gallons

Boil Time: 30

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 77

Mash Thickness: 1.33

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 10.74 psi

Creation Date: 9/23/2019 4:00 PM

Notes: I've been editing this recipe based on my first attempt from the linked source. My impression of my first attempt was that the beer was a bit too hoppy and lacked the malty assault I was expecting of a Conway's clone.

Some key deviations from my first attempt (from source):

- Grain bill now uses Maris Otter as a base and 2 lb portion of Munich. The roasted malts are largely the same.

- I like to start with distilled water and add my salts, and I've learned a good bit about water chemistry since my first attempt. This time around I picked the balanced profile to get a decent baseline. This is different from the first attempt, where I arbitrarily used 5g of gypsum and called it a day.

- Switched to Safale S-04 yeast from Wyeast 1028 (London Ale) just for fun. Have been using Wyeast for all my beers until now.

- Replaced Hollertau Mittelfruh with Styrian Goldings to pair English hops with more English hops. This is more OCD than practical.

Author:

Jan Erik Johansen

Boil Size: 14 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.098

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 19 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/18/2015 7:30 AM

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Author:

Mazsi

Boil Size: 45 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.053

Efficiency: 82

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 22 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/25/2018 1:11 PM

Notes: Fogadjátok szeretettel ezt az egyetlen fajta maláta és komló felhasználásával készített aranyló narancs színével csábító illatos nyári sört. Vigyázat IPA, azaz magasabb alkoholfok és a szokásosnál kicsit keserűbb ízvilág jellemzi.
Serfőzők: Borbíró András és Illy Dániel

Author:

Grill Master 242

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.059

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 64 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 12/28/2017 2:26 PM

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Author:

headshaker

Boil Size: 13 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.062

Efficiency: 73

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 60 ° F

Priming Method: Force Carb

Priming Amount: 12 PSI

Creation Date: 1/4/2014 5:41 AM

Notes: Duvel Clone

Use a 3L starter (1.5L per container)
Pitch starter @ 60F and allow temp to rise to 80F over 1 week

Add 5 pds sugar and packet of S04 to primary @ high krausen to achieve 90% attenuation

After fermentation, cold crash for 24 hours, rack to keg with gelatin for crystal clear beer and allow to cold condition for 10 weeks

Force carb @ 12 psi.

Author:

Mark D Pirate

Boil Size: 30 Litres

Boil Time: 75

Boil Gravity: 1.057

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 2.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 18.5 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/23/2016 12:16 AM

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Author:

colbon

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 73

Mash Thickness: 1

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 60 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/13/2016 11:02 AM

Notes: Modified version of Rogue Chocolate Stout. Increased IBUs to be closer to the actual beer as the Zymurgy recipe incorrectly only has 40IBUs. Color was also very light, so increased roasted grains. The actual beer is 135L, so this is still pretty far off in color, but was shooting for a lighter / more chocolatey flavor. Added cocoa nibs to the end of the boil, need to determine if they are best served added to the secondary or to the end of boil. Chocolate extract is used in secondary to give strong chocolate aroma/flavor. I'm not sure about vanilla use, perhaps only a hint would be nice, but I may need to adjust to not overpower the beer. There is no vanilla in Rogue.

Decided to drop vanilla. Flavor seems perfect - similar in some ways to Rogue, but much more silky/chocolatey along the lines of Shake, but not sweet like that beer. I'm really happy with this recipe!

Author:

Ivan Barenboim

Boil Size: 26.43 Litres

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 67

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 0.73 bar

Creation Date: 12/15/2020 7:48 PM

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Author:

Second Star Fermentations

Boil Size: 2.54 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.025

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 1.24

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/18/2018 3:20 PM

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Author:

Jessman52

Boil Size: 7.25 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.032

Efficiency: 45

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 72 ° F

Priming Method: Corn Sugar

Priming Amount: 4.2 oz.

Creation Date: 9/26/2017 9:18 PM

Notes: Batch Series #10NMP01
-American Brown Ale brewed with American malts and golden honey with a sharp bite from a carefully chosen selection of hops: MAGNUM for bittering and homegrown whole leaf CASCADE for a grapefruit flavor and aroma.
Yeast: Sept. 11, 2018 Lot#1061919 QC cell count: 2.77e9 cells/ml
Gypsum used to add sulfate "crispness" to the hop bitterness.
-Targeted Mash temperatures in the range of 152°F to 156°F to create a wort with a balance of fermentable and non-fermentable sugars.
-Re-circulate (vorlauf) until wort is fairly clear (15-20 minutes)
-Golden honey addition at flameout.
-All test equipment calibrated prior to use, samples temperature adjusted, FG measured with a precision hydrometer.
-BU:GU (Bitterness to starting gravity ratio): (IBU [34.07] divided by OG (62) = [.55]. (Note: 0.5 to 0.7 for a balanced amber brew).

Author:

Menzel/Kaz Brewing

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.058

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/12/2017 4:43 AM

Notes: IBU is fairly high for style, will consider adjusting before brew day.

Author:

Boil Size: 40 Litres

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.025

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/5/2016 8:35 PM

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Author:

Declan

Boil Size: 10 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.043

Efficiency: 33

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 19.5 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/9/2016 12:38 AM

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Author:

SJB Homebrew

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/1/2016 7:59 PM

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Author:

alan_stanley@ntlworld.com

Boil Size: 10 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.126

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/14/2015 2:28 PM

Notes: This is variation on my citra honey and ginger recipe again with the hop selection dictated mainly by what I had left over from previous brews. I've upped the overall hoppage a bit this time round but the quantity of ginger was toned down to aim for a more subtle hint rather than the quite full ginger beer taste of the original.

The honey, crystal malt and "first wort" hops were steeped in 4 pints water at 65 degrees for 40 minutes.

For the boil I started with 1kg extract in 16 pints water until final 15 minutes when the rest of the extract, the chopped ginger and strained honey mixture.

I cooled the wort in the bath to 35 degrees then put it in fermenter and topped up to the full volume running the added water through the hops in the kettle to rinse out a bit more hop flavour.

"Where's the rhubarb?" You might be wondering. I split the 5 gallon batch at secondary fermentation and tried various combinations as follows:

1 gallon 30g stewed rhubarb
1 gallon 20g stewed rhubarb
1 gallon 10g stewed rhubarb + 10g Kohatu hops
2 gallons 30g Kohatu hops

Left in secondary for a week before bottling. I'll update this description to let you know how it turns out.

UPDATE: So first results are mostly positive. The best batch is definitely the 10+10 which is very drinkable and seems to be nicely balanced with enough rhubarb to give an interesting slightly sour but pleasant flavour. I'm very pleased with this one. The 20 and 30g rhubarb batches are good too but the 30g especially is very dry. The rhubarb does seem to add a dryness along with the sourness you'd expect.

I wouldn't do the 30g Kohatu dry hopped again - the hop flavour was too much and a bit grassy.

Author:

Nsurg

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.034

Efficiency: 67

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 75 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/6/2015 1:33 PM

Notes: Very tasty on prior keg brew. Actually a little better than commercial. Very white full head.

Author:

Boil Size: 490 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.05

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/24/2015 4:45 PM

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Author:

Victorian Ghost

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 75

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/7/2015 7:26 PM

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Author:

gorefisted@gmail.com

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 75

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 71

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 75 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/3/2014 6:37 PM

Notes: 12/7/14: Our first traditional IPA recipe... finally. Though we were originally planning on making our herbal, spiced Spring barleywine-esque beer on this brew day, we haven't collected any of the extra ingredients nor have we devised a yeast culture proper for fermenting a 10% lighter colored beer. So, here's this. Originally, I had it with very few hop additions (like 4 additions total; yikes), but research points to IPAs getting much more complex and enjoyable if you add a lot more late hops and stagger the additions. So, that's what we're doing here.

11 ounces of hops will be added in total, divided between several early additions and an increasing quantity of late additions (all the way up to an intense quarter-pound added at flame-out), as well as two separate 1-week dry hops, to hopefully provide us with 5 or so gallons of American single IPA rife with crisp bitterness, fruity, tropical, citric and herbal notes without being too, too sweet. On that note, we are doing a longer boil (75 min w/ no hops until 30 minutes in) and I've kept the crystal malt to a minimum to reduce the potential for this to develop caramel-like flavors. Like I mentioned, we're going for a dry and crisp flavor; low potential for stickiness or malt presence. Hops are what's important here, of course. Cheers!

12/12/14: Pat put the first dry-hop addition in the primary fermenter today. It's a slight change from the original way I had it written here and I've changed the recipe to reflect that. It features two kinds of whole leaf-hops (Cascade and Mosaic) and was left in for close to 9 days.

12/21/14: Just transferred to secondary today. Put second dry-hop bag in after siphoning. It contains the Falconer's Flight (1 oz) and Motueka (0.5 oz) pellets, which will stay in the fermenter for a week. Took a gravity sample to make sure fermentation was done. To our surprise, the beer fermented a little lower than expected, to about 1.013. That makes the beer about 7.75% instead of the assumed 7.16%. More updates as they come.

12/28/14: Just bottled our first-ever IPA! We ended up with an insanely long dry-hop (two different stages; first for 9 days, second for 7 after transferring to secondary) that made the finished beer very aromatic with mango, orange and pine notes coming through on top of a cereal-like, very slightly sweet base. Decided to split a bottle siphoned straight into a bottle we couldn't cap (note to self: don't try bottling into royal pint/16.9 oz bottles; the lip is weird and doesn't work with regular crown caps). The flavor is dominated by drying waves of tropical fruitiness, pine notes and fairly chewy malt. We will leave the bottles conditioning with priming sugar for approximately a week before cracking any more.

We ended up with a lot less beer than we thought, however... about 3.5 gallons instead of the 5 we assumed. Our assumption is that the duration of the dry-hopping, as well as the fact that we dry-hopped twice thus introducing more potential for beer loss due to absorption must be mostly to blame. Next time we do this one, we will probably change how we dry-hop. Psyched to see how it comes out in a week!

1/11/15: Well, here we are in the new year and it's been about two weeks since I last updated. The reason behind the delay is, quite simply, that it took a bit longer for the beer to carbonate and condition. However, our patience has been rewarded with a truly extraordinary first IPA, if I do say so myself. As a huge critic of our own beer, I have to say that, once carbonated, this came out almost exactly as expected. As I posted on Facebook about this one:

"[It] presents with juicy pineapple, grapefruit and citrus peel in the nose and a nice, slick and oily palate with notes of candied orange and pine. Really drinkable for ~7.5% (finished slightly higher strength/lower gravity than we thought it would). Proud of this one. We will continue working on the hopping schedule to zone in on the perfect IPA flavor and brew this several times a year."

Very excited about how it came out. My worries about it not conditioning correctly have been allayed and we are now working on an imperial stout to be transferred to a bourbon barrel some time in the next month. Until next time!

3/22/15: Been about a month and a half since an update here, so here's the deal. After a couple more months of criticism about our own process, changes in how we brew and the fact that this IPA actually eventually underwent a bottle refermentation leading to it practically exploding (luckily nonviolently!) with carbonation, I am finally committing some changes to the recipe.

To do this, I'm taking some things into account, including but not limited to: new equipment translating to higher efficiency obtained from the mash, originally-unrecognized liquid volume loss from hop absorption (due to quantity and time spent on hops, both) and, finally, alteration of focus in terms of hop load. I've lowered the quantity of distinct hop varietals in order to hone in more on the qualities we want. I'm also adding an appreciable 1 lb. of oats to the recipe to improve mouthfeel, head retention and body. -AP

4/2/15: Alright, committing a few more changes. Oats have been increased to 1.5 lbs (because oats rule in IPAs) and have set up some basic whirlpool additions (Motueka/Amarillo for the citrus and tropical fruit aromatic qualities we're going for) that require holding the wort at just under boiling (200° F to be exact) for 20 or so minutes. Should be brewing this on 4/4, so updates will be provided as needed. This is easily the most dedicated we've been to a single recipe, and it makes sense as IPAs are a huge thing and will be for quite a while... and we're not content just making one according to any kind of premade recipe. -AP

4/4/15: Heating up strike water for this one now. Had to make some last-minute changes to the hop bill due to our LHBS having less FF than we wanted... subbed in a high-alpha, locally-grown Cascade (Four Star Farms) and changed some other hops minorly in order to get more rounded numbers and keep costs down (while still hopefully achieving similar profiles and IBUs, of course).. -AP

4/8/15: Dry hop addition added.

4/15/15: Noting that OG was higher than planned. This seems to be the opposite from the trend we've been seeing on the new gear. Hopefully this means we're getting better, but what I think it means is we boiled too long. Sparge was hefty and we collected about 7 gallons, 1.040ish, boiled down to 5 gal in the fermenter left us with the OG of 1.075. This is gonna be closer to a double IPA like the first time we brewed it. Beer has been sitting in the swamp heater at 71 (so roughly 69 internal temp).

4/26/15: Bottling this one now. Noting that FG was 1.021 (71% apparent attenuation from the approximate 1.075 we got from the original recipe). Ended up with a decent amount of loss from the dry-hop, yet again. We also did boil a bit longer than intended, as we didn't quite hit pre-boil gravity. Didn't lose much, if anything, to the dry-hop as it was shorter, done in one stage, and was a rather small (2 ounce, in pellets to boot) amount compared to before. As such, we've had to compensate some numbers here, but it should be about accurate. Sample looked, smelled and tasted pretty great.

7/11/15: Alright, been 2 and a half months since the last update on this. Honestly, we've been fairly confused by the progress of it in terms of smell and flavor. It carbonated well, looks great and has an absolutely perfect feel for the style, but the flavor felt too... green. Which is weird because IPAs probably can't be "too fresh"... or can they? According to an employee at Trillium, you should wait about a week or two after bottling to enjoy something like their Congress Street or Fort Point ales, as the fresh hop flavor is just raw and unrefined. We tested this theory and it has held up to be pretty much true. My personal experiences with Trillium's hoppy ales have been "meh" at best when ultra-fresh (day or two from bottling date), but much better after some time has passed. So, what does that have to do with this IPA? Well, it kinda didn't taste great when we first bottled this version. The previous version was fantastic after a week, but this clearly needed some time. Fresh, it was rife with plastic-y notes and, though we constantly joke about off-flavors or weird notes "conditioning out", we didn't know how truly correct that would be with this. I mean, here I am like 3 months later drinking half a bottle, and I'm amazed at what it's gone through. Gone are the strange and awkward quirks, and we now have an IPA that's come into its own. The nose is pine-forward with some bright fruitiness and light citrus. There's some strawberry, lime and orange notes, but on the tongue, I get a decent hit of carbonation before a one-two punch of citrus (lime, orange, grapefruit) and cereal grains providing a strong counterpoint. Bitterness is prominent, as it should be, but gone are the plastic flavors and in their stead are tropical notes (pineapple, guava and even coconut are popping out here and there) and excellent pine-y dryness. This has opened up a whole hell of a lot, to be honest. I might eventually change the recipe to have a more dense dry-hop again, though, and we'll just prepare for immense loss. Sacrificing to the hop gods is a fairly worthy cause, after all. Until next time.

9/4/15: Just cracked another bomber of this to test how it's developing and if it's still good. The answer is yes, it's quite great! Nose is still lemon, lime, pine and strawberry. Palate is rife with bright fruit, drying pine and a crackery malt backbone. Still very bitter; it's all holding up really well. Surprised it didn't gush either, though this was poured from a bomber, not a 12 ounce bottle.