Brewing Again
So this weekend, Dan and I will be brewing a bunch of IPA — probably 10 gallons of “regular” IPA, and 5 gallons or so of DIPA (double IPA for all of you not in tune with beer acronyms — basically stronger and hoppier beer). Using extract due to time constraints (daycare picnic in the morning) and ease of use and … availability, since we’ll soon have 175 pounds of the crap to deal with. It remains to be seen if such a volume of raw material can be effectively dealt with in the next few months!
Here, for the hell of it, are the recipes:
Regular IPA (10 gallons)
- 16 lbs of extract
- 1.5 lbs of corn sugar
- .5 lb. of C-20
- 4 oz. Centennial @ 75 min.
- 2 oz. Centennial @ 1 min.
- 2 oz. Amarillo @ 1 min.
- US-05 yeast, hopefully a nice cool sub-68F ferment
DIPA (5 gallons)
- 10 lbs. extract
- 1.5 lbs. corn sugar
- .25 lb. C-20
- .5 oz. of Warrior, 1 oz. of Columbus, and 1 oz. of Centennial @ 75 min. for bittering (or whatever I have that gets us to this IBU level, roughly 70 or so)
- 4 oz. of Centennial with about a minute to go in the boil
- US-05 yeast, cool ferment
Depends on what’s actually on hand, but varying amounts of Simcoe, Amarillo, and Columbus may make it into the final products …. we’ll see when I take stock of things tonight.
Should be a productive afternoon!
