The Professor - IPA (hoppy)

Brew date: - Oct 19, 2013

10 gallon Blind Pig More Beer Ingredients and Recipe. 

Ingredient

• 23lbs            2 row
• 1lb               Carapils
• 1/2lb            Crystal 40
• 1/2lb            White wheat

Mash

• 152F for 90 minutes
• Sparge at 170F to produce 13 gallons

Boil

• 60mins         Chinook 1oz, Warrior 1oz
• 20mins         Cascade 1oz
• 5mins           Whirlflox, Cooper coil
• 0mins           Cascade 2oz, Amarillo 1oz, Simcoe 1oz

• Copper coil cooled wort to 95F
• Drained into 15 gallon vessel for fermentation with spray attachment to add O2
• OG 1.056 (Oct 19, 2013)
• FG 1.010 (Nov 9, 2013)
• ABV 6%

Fermentation

• WLP001 California Ale Yeast, 2 viles
• 68F in pantry for 14 days

Secondary

• Dry hop on Nov 3rd  - Cascade 1oz, Amarillo 1oz, Simcoe 1oz, Centennial 1 oz
• Nov 9th - took hops out. Aroma of citrus. Slight pinny aroma. Needs to get in keg to lager!
• Nov 10 - kegged and set to 20 psi

Comments

• Dec 13th. -  Aged to perfection. This started as a brew with little appeal to a spectacular beer. Patients patents patients! Crisp with a beautiful hop aroma.Cloudy (wheat malt) but completely acceptable.
• Jan 18th. - A good beer with some after taste that were less than perfect. Possible DMS in the flavor as a result from not boiling this rapidly enough. 
• I've had a few of my beers have this flavour which subsides with months of aging. I think this is due to a weak or short boil. I used this same yeast in the red hop rocket ale and there was no hint of this flavour.
• This beer next time should boil more and dry hop more. 

Gallery

Malted Barley Grain.

Adding water to the grain.

152F Mash covered for 90 mins.

Mash run off. Beginning of 13 gallon wort.

OG 1.056 @ 68F

From fermentation vessel to keg. Nov 10.