White Star IPA

[pantsmachine]

Had a good time at a bbq yesterday, swmbo and daughter are out shopping today so decided to get a brew on. Today i am going for another IPA, couple of differences. I am going to first hop this beer and i have slid a whole load of the hops to the last 5 minutes or so. Hoping some of the bobek citrus survive as well to come through in the final beer. I might up the ABV on this beer to around the 7% mark, not decided yet. GAME ON!

White Star IPA Mk2

5.00 kg Pale Malt
2.00 kg Munich Malt
2.00 kg Wheat Malt,
0.15 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L
30.00 gm Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash 60.0 min) Misc
1.00 oz Chinook [12.50 %] (90 min)
3.50 oz Bobek [5.20 %] (90 minFH)
1.80 oz Styrian Goldings [5.40 %] (90 minFH)
1.00 oz amarillo(90 min FH)
1.00oz simco(90 min FH)
1.00 oz Chinook [13.00 %] (15 min)
0.45 kg Honey (1.0 SRM) Sugar 4.69 % last 10 minutes
1.00 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (3 min)
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] (3 min)
2.00 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (1 min)
2.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] (1 min) Hops
2.00 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (0 min)-
1.50 oz Chinook [12.50 %] (0 min)-
2.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] (0 min)
1.00 oz Williamette [5.50 %] (0 min)
0.95 oz Orange Peel, Bitter (Boil 5.0 min)
2.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min)
3.1 oz Whisky barrel Oak Chips ( 30.0 days)
1.5oz simco dry hop 30 days
1.5 oz amarillo dry hop 30 days

SG 1.060
FG 10.1?
Bitterness: 104.5 IBU
Est Color: 8.2 SRM
Notes
3.5oz bobek first hopped,1.8oz styrian goldings 1 oz amarillo, 1oz simco first hopped
Will be dry hopping with Simcoe & Amarillo(1.5 oz each), huge tropical nose required.
Oak chips to be around 4 oz and want them in for two weeks at least.
21.25 ltr mash water at 77 deg, grain at 14 deg c to achieve 66.5 deg
Rind from one orange or a few tangerines.
31 ltr sparge water to achieve 8 gallon final batch

[pantsmachine]

grain in and its ambient temp. First use of mashy the paddle



Mash on settled nicely to plan


Lots of hops


Bobek&Styrian goldings first wort hops(5.6oz)


Amarillo and Simco first wort hops(2.1 oz)


Nice and empty


Looking better with the first hops in, doesn't look like over 7oz of hops!

[bellebouche]

Excellent looking recipe - it's a Hop Monster!

I don't know if you've come across this reference chart (or anything similar) but your IBU/OG ratio is right on the margins...


I'd say stick at it - look forward to notes on the progress and your initial tastings. I'm particularly enamoured with the orange peel/honey!

[pantsmachine]

Cheers mate,

Much appreciated. I try not to pay too much attention to brew guidelines(within limits of course) and hopefully i achieve the kind of beer i'm after!

Lost a degree and a bit on the 1 hour rest. That will do me nicely.


The smell of the first runnings hitting the hops is sensational.


Sparge on and some dark high sugar recirced first runnings



Sparge coming to an end and where's all the colour gone!

[bellebouche]

Cheers mate,

Much appreciated. I try not to pay too much attention to brew guidelines(within limits of course) and hopefully i achieve the kind of beer i'm after!

Ahh.. I see you'd slightly tweaked your recipe in the time I was trying to find that daft chart! It's a guidline of course just to make sure you're not making something that might risk being at the extremes of flavour.

Great set of pics - it's always good to get insight into someone elses rig and process and whilst I dare say that a great many people don't do things a lot differently it's always good to see another brewer in action! I particularly like your fly-sparge shower-bar affair, shows me I'm far too slow at doing mine and my runnings trickling out seems to take for ever.

I've a pump on its way so I'll try and mash thinner and pump re-circ some wort and pump fly sparge as soon as I get it rigged.

[pantsmachine]

Yeah i do tweak as i go. Its a rare day when a recipe comes out the same at the end as when i start. Depends on the day and TBH whats lieing around close to hand and takes my fancy! Pumping to recirc the mash is a godsend, i used to do it by hand with a jug which was fine but there's a limit to how many jugs i can be arsed to stand waiting for! This wort recirced for 20 minutes before i set the tap, i continue to recirc as i sparge.

Big find of this month is whiskey barrel shavings intended for BBQ. They smell just like the storeroom in a distillery!Way more aromatic than the one's brupaks sell.I put 3oz of them in a tray, covered the tray to keep in as much of the aromatics as possible and baked them for 20minutes at 200 C to sterilise. The orange skin and finishing hops smell great and the honey went in in the last 5 minutes. It was all a bit frantic towards the end!




Jar of honey and sticking to tea


1.5 oz of amarillo and the same of simco in the nylon bag and the whiskey barrel shaving are in the other


Finishing hops and peel



Its all steeping closed lid for an hour. I'll turn the chiller on after that. Just realised that there's well over a pound of hops in this beer. I hope this gets me close to my ultimate hop beer. If not i'm going to give up and take up crocheting blankets or something.

[pantsmachine]

Funny how sometimes the obvious things are staring you in the face. I've been thinking about recircing wort post boil through the hop bed in the copper for a while and realised today that all i had to do was cut a piece of plastic tubing and get on with it! The pictures speak for themselves on the success of this trial. Only ran it for 20 minutes at 4LPM. Will run for a full hour next time.

Very first Ltr, normally this would have been pumped straight into the FV and dropped out the bottom of the FV around day 2.

After 5 minutes the difference is noticable

After 10 minutes took a hydro sample at 1.058. Settled at 1.060 1 hour later.

The highly technical tubing installation



hops and oak chips in the conical




CLose up of the wort during transfer to FV around about the 20 ltr mark.


Ended up with around 33 ltrs, will do the clean up tomorrow. Pitched 2 packets of US-05. A very enjoyable day!

[196osh]

Looks superb. Great recpie.

I have the same thermometer is a great thing.

[bellebouche]

Can I be 110% crystal clear about this.... (pardon my pun!)



That pic above is post boil because you'd done a wort re-circ in your kettle during the steep phase.. and you'd yet to chill down? That clarity is remarkable.

[pantsmachine]

Cheers guys,

It seemed like a logical step to use the hop bed as a filter but in a more active fashion than i have been. Can't say what temp the wort was at but i had been running the cooler for a while at that point. I'd say most of the heat had been knocked out by the time i took the hydrometer sample. I guess the test will be in 2 days time when i dump the first quarter litre out the bottom of the conical. Beyond this i'd have to go for 'proper' filtration and i don't fancy that at all....

[WishboneBrewery]

So where did the Paddle come from?
I should get an IPA on soon, you really are mad for them

[pantsmachine]

So where did the Paddle come from?
I should get an IPA on soon, you really are mad for them

I made it during a boring time offshore, works really well but strange feeling when stirring with it as it weighs nothing(aluminium) and cuts through the grain very well so there's no resistance really. Got to admit i don't think it would a long game to play 'guess pantsmachines favourite beer style'. It does get a bit mental though. Example being when i did the clean up this morning i took 1 and a half buckets of spent hops out of the copper. Even i'll admit that's not quite normal.

[bellebouche]

...when i did the clean up this morning i took 1 and a half buckets of spent hops out of the copper. Even i'll admit that's not quite normal.

Heroic stuff. </golf_clap>

[adm]

Very nice indeed!

[jubby]

Oh my, pants.............you've excelled yourself this time . I think i may have dribbled a little on my keyboard whilst reading through your hop bill!! Hope it turns out as good as the DTE IPA.

I will be quaffing the Hop Bomb soon. I'll let you know my thoughts.

Next up for me is an all Simco IPA. (when i have an IPA keg free)