'Use the right tool for the job', my pop would say to me as a young lad, whenever I'd stubbornly use a comicly undersized implement for the task at hand, be it a paring knife to chop onions or a hand trowel to dig a hole in the garden. I'd scrape and scratch away, until I heeded his advice and finally make the long walk back to the garage to fetch the right tool.
Not much impresses my dad, but if its one thing my dad's eyes go wide on, its properly apportioned gear that can do a job better (best)...be it his Kubota tractor or the (excessive) SD-RAM chipset in the laptop.
After the recent attempt at a big red DIPA, I look at my hand trowel of a brewing set up, and yearn for my Kubota rig.
OK. Id settle for a mantis at this point.
I stuffed the heaving grist in to the 10 gallon cooler and mashed in with a way too low water to grist ratio, even holding back the crystal for capping the mash, after a little tun capacity was realized from settling the grain bed through recirculation.
4 oz of black malt was set aside for complete and dusty pulverization in the bladed decaf coffee grinder, aka the paring knife of the coffee grinders in our kitchen. We only hit proper coffee with a burr grinder. This very small amount of black malt will help to lend a deep red hue. The oxidation protection qualities of the highly kilned grain is a nice side effect. Maybe only the very faintest of roast flavor will appear (and probably only because you'd look for it when you know its there).
Being a double IPA, there are mounds and mounds of hops (Chinook, Centennial, Citra, Amarillo) pressed in to service, with the majority held back for later boil and dry additions. A late addition of ~10% sugar to dry out the beer, while still pulling max IBUs, customary to DIPAs.
The now customary painful run-off takes 2 hours, including two grain bed resetting blows of air back through the run off tube to clear the stuck mash.
1 hour to cool the 10.5 gallons of wort to close to pitching temps. Another hour to strain out the hops from the wort and clean up. Wort still at 72F. Left in front of the A/C unit to chill down to pitching temps. To bed at 1:30AM on a school night. Reached 67F by 6:30AM the following day, yeast pitched. Fermentation started in ~6 hours, and active fermentation between 63-65F. Krausen fell in 3.5days, conditioning at 70F now.
I need some new stuff, because what I have are clearly les mauvais outils (the wrong tools).
Nose of deep and complex american hops...missing the fresh/resinous tones only achieved w/ dry hopping.
Caramel/malty.
Muted British yeast esters, carried by soft alcohols.
6PM, 26Sep2010: 4oz of dry hops in each vessel: 1 oz each of Chinook, Centennial, Citra, Amarillo, whole hops.
| Imperial Red IPA |
| Imperial IPA |
| Type: All Grain | Date: 9/12/2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batch Size: 10.00 gal | Brewer: JC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Boil Size: 11.74 gal | Asst Brewer: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Boil Time: 75 min | Equipment: My Equipment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taste Rating(out of 50): 35.0 | Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ingredients | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Beer Profile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Est Original Gravity: 1.097 SG | Measured Original Gravity: 1.010 SG | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Est Final Gravity: 1.023 SG | Measured Final Gravity: 1.005 SG | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 9.78 % | Actual Alcohol by Vol: 0.65 % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bitterness: 129.1 IBU | Calories: 43 cal/pint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Est Color: 17.7 SRM | Color:
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| Mash Profile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mash Name: Single Infusion, Light Body | Total Grain Weight: 34.75 lb | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sparge Water: 8.41 gal | Grain Temperature: 72.0 F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sparge Temperature: 168.0 F | TunTemperature: 72.0 F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adjust Temp for Equipment: FALSE | Mash PH: 5.4 PH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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