BIAB IPA with Simcoe Hops

[AdyG]

Hi Everyone

Following this thread and discussion (see below - with help from Seymor ) I decided to brew another IPA but wanted to use Simcoe hops to get close to a beer I tasted:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=58037

To be honest I've tried so many different beers since then I'm not sure how close I got, but in colour, mouth feel and great flavour I don't think I've done too badly.

Here's the recipe I did anyway:

Maris otter pale malt 5.2 kg
Caramalt 250g
Crystal 200g
Wheatmalt 200g

Columbus 20g @ 90mins
Centennial 20g @ 30mins
Simcoe 20g @ 30mins
Columbus 20g @ 5mins
Simcoe 20g @ 5mins

Simcoe 20g dry hop for 5 days after main fermentation

Safale US-05 yeast

OG 1056
FG 1014
ABV 5.5%

Mash at 66 degrees for 90 mins
Boiled for 90 mins

Due you using a hop filter and adding hops directly to the boil I was a couple of litres short at 21 instead of 23, so next time I will add some extra boiled water to get back on target.

It's been conditioning for 4 weeks now in the keg so will be ready for a good taste this weekend, it was sampled last weekend and was still very good, just not quite cleared.

[seymour]

Looks good, mate. Glad to hear you got it brewed and it tastes good.

The haziness is just a known-issue with that Chico yeast. If it bothers you, you'll need to be sure to add Irish Moss or another clarifying agent/filtration in the future. Or better yet, use a more distinctive yeast which clears better to begin with.

[louiscowdroy]

Nice to see ya Seymour hope your well mate......

[ArmChair]

Sounds nice pal

[Rookie]

Looks good, mate. Glad to hear you got it brewed and it tastes good.

The haziness is just a known-issue with that Chico yeast. If it bothers you, you'll need to be sure to add Irish Moss or another clarifying agent/filtration in the future. Or better yet, use a more distinctive yeast which clears better to begin with.

Dry hopping can also cause a bit of haze.

[AdyG]

Cheers for the comments everyone! By last Saturday night it was almost clear so I took it round my mates house, he hadn't experienced Simcoe hopped beer before and was impressed by it too.

One of his dogs also liked it.... we found her licking the drips off the keg, then drooling for more for the rest of the evening.



I normally use irish moss near the end of the boil, and although the US-05 does seem to take a bit longer to clear, from previous experience with it, by 6 weeks it's perfectly clear... if it lasts that long

[WishboneBrewery]

Next time Dry Hop with 5x more hops

[AdyG]

Next time Dry Hop with 5x more hops

150g of Simcoe.... ooo pricey!

Actually we tried some of on Saturday from bottles, I saved some straight from the FV and stuck them in bottles to keep for later so it had maybe been conditioning for 6 weeks plus, but it was amazing! Far better than out the keg in terms of flavour and hop tang. This was the first one of my IPAs that had a real hop aroma and lasting after taste.

I'm considering doing exactly the same beer and bottling it all this time, maybe a bit more dry hopping depending on how extravagant I'm feeling.

[hopsinjoor]

Next time Dry Hop with 5x more hops

Surely 5x 20g is 100g?

Either way, this is something I totally agree with. I've just dry-hopped 2 ales (1x25l & 1x23l) with 150g apiece of Experimental 366 that I got from Simply Hops. Smelling crazily like a mixture of Citra & Amarillo I think. I wanted to put even more in it smelled that good.

[WishboneBrewery]

I've got about 250g pellet dry hop in the beer I'm going to bottle today

[hopsinjoor]

Into what volume? For 25l batches, that's crazy territory, for a 50l batch it's good hopping.

[WishboneBrewery]

Into what volume? For 25l batches, that's crazy territory, for a 50l batch it's good hopping.

10.65g per Litre think thats enough

[hopsinjoor]

Wow pdtnc, you are my hero. 250g of pellets into 23.5 litres of beer. Isn't there some degree of pellets being equal to say 2 or 3 times the same amount of dried cones as well? That's mega-dryhop.

I am massively in awe of you right now. I want to do a brew, and throw in a crazy amount, like a kilo, just to play on the same field as you.

[WishboneBrewery]

I'd like to apologise to AdyG for the Thread hijack... oops!

my beer will definitely be Dry hopped

[AdyG]

I'd like to apologise to AdyG for the Thread hijack... oops!

my beer will definitely be Dry hopped

No worries pdtnc!

It's just more encouragement to make me dry hop with a massive amount of hop pellets! I haven't actually used the pellets yet.... do you just through them into the FV after the main fermentation has died down? Or stick them in a secondary FV for 5 days.... but with pellets I'm assuming you do not need a hop strainer of sock, they are left directly in the FV?