partial mash IPA brew day
Monday, December 21st, 2009on sunday CB rolled by and I whipped up an IPA using a partial mash recipe I formulated based on a couple of sources.
- I based the malt bill for my recipe on a partial mash breakdown of CJ’s rising sun JPA recipe over on brewboard:
- 6# LME (pale)
- 2# 2-row
- .5#aromatic
- .5#wheat
- .3# cara-pils
- .3# crystal 15L
- additionally, I slightly modified the hop bill from my very first brew session (a recipe from robert over at what used to be fermentation frenzy):
- 1oz. columbus @ 75
- 1oz. columbus @ 55
- 1oz. columbus @ 20
- 1oz. amarillo @ 10
- 1.5oz. amarillo @ 0
- dry-hop 1.5oz amarillo, 1oz. columbus
- my batch sparge went fine – I added a little over a gallon of 160F water to the mash, resulting in a mash temp of around 152F. I mashed for an hour and sparged with the same amount of water at the same temp.
- it had been a little while since I had cracked out my scratch-built mash tun, and the little guy worked like a dream. in fact, I am debating picking up a turkey fryer and boil pot and doing some all-grain beers with it in the near future…
- the hop schedule was originally @60, 40, 15, 5, and 0, but things got a little hairy during bottling of my imperial espresso stout (lowdown to come) and the boil got inadvertently extended.
- my starter of wyeast cali 1 was bubbling along nicely, and after a shot of O2 and some healthy yeast, fermentation kicked off in no time.
- I plan on tossing the dry hops into primary next week, and kegging a week or so after that.