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F*** Load of Hops
Brew Type: All Grain Date: 16/04/2011
Style: Imperial IPA Brewer:
Batch Size: 24.00 L Assistant Brewer:
Boil Volume: 38.82 L Boil Time: 90 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %

Brewing Steps Check Time Step
16/04/2011 Clean and prepare equipment.
-- Measure ingredients, crush grains.
-- Prepare 47.86 L water for brewing
-- Prepare Ingredients for Mash
Amount Item Type
7.00 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain
0.33 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (118.2 EBC) Grain
0.30 kg Munich Malt - 10L (19.7 EBC) Grain
0.25 kg Wheat Malt, Bel (3.9 EBC) Grain
0.15 kg Amber Malt (43.3 EBC) Grain

-- Add first wort hops to boiler at start of sparge
Amount Item Type
50.00 gm Warrior [18.20 %] (90 min) (First Wort Hop) Hops

Boil Amount Item Type
90 min 0.30 kg Sugar, Table (Sucrose) (2.0 EBC) Sugar
10 min 50.00 gm Centennial [11.00 %] (10 min) Hops
10 min 50.00 gm Chinook [13.60 %] (10 min) Hops
10 min 50.00 gm Simcoe [12.20 %] (10 min) Hops

-- Steep Hops
Amount Item Type
50.00 gm Centennial [10.00 %] (60 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops
50.00 gm Chinook [13.60 %] (60 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops
50.00 gm Simcoe [12.20 %] (60 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep)

Add Ingredients to Fermenter
Amount Item Type
100.00 gm Simcoe [12.20 %] (Dry Hop 7 days) Hops
100.00 gm Chinook [12.90 %] (Dry Hop 7 days) Hops

OG 1078
IBU:146

That's more hoppy than a field of bunnies. We like this.

This brewday is going really well. Got just over my preboil OG 1068, and I am boiling now.

Will upload the pictures in a bit. The hops smell great.

Grist shot


Starch test, no blue


Recirculating the mash


Insanely high alpha Warrior FWH.


Hoppy goodness. There is still 50g in each of the foil bags for flameout.


Yeast repitch. Only used 2/3 of it.


Final wort shot.



Hop strainer blocked giant pain in the arse.

Unlucky on the hop stopper blockage. Great colour though. 8% + bad boy?

Stealth lager look beer that blows the back of the head out and opens a hop garden in the mouth, Just my type of beer!

Yeah, hopefully it will get down to 1012ish should be about 8.5%.

Should be good, the hops were super fresh and awesome smelling.

196osh wrote:Hop strainer blocked giant pain in the arse.

You are meant to stick it in your boiler!

The iodine test goes like a Black / Purple with me, then eventually when complete conversion has done it doesn't change colour apart from the bits of starchy stuff left in bits of malt husk. Thats what I've been looking for at least.

lol. No colour change occured at all just a crap camera it should look blue black yeah if there is conversion left.

I only did a google to find out what to do with it. used it twice so far, though after the first mash with a shed load of Flaked adjuncts I just did a 2 hour+ mash which was plenty of time so when I put drops of the iodine on it nothing happened.

I remembered it from secondary school chemistry. I mashed for about 90 mins so I didn't expect any starch to be left.

This guy is now down to 1020, taking its time, still actively fermenting. I hope to get another 8 points out of it, but if it gets down to 1015 I will be pretty happy.

Blimey thats a right monster, you bad lad!
Must get a long maturation beer like this on, nearly ran out of my Dr Whoover which at just 95 ibu and 6.9% is a relative baby....but after a year its golden beauty hides a thumping bugger of a beer! Wish I'd made more!

I bet you drink it relatively young just for the hop wallop! Gotta be done, I tip my hat sir!

No aging on this one, the hops drop out quickly and you loose some of the intricate flavours.

I would drink it straight out of the fermenter. The hydro samples are superb.

196osh wrote:F*** Load of Hops
50.00 gm Warrior [18.20 %] (90 min) (First Wort Hop) Hops

Boil Amount Item Type
90 min 0.30 kg Sugar, Table (Sucrose) (2.0 EBC) Sugar
10 min 50.00 gm Centennial [11.00 %] (10 min) Hops
10 min 50.00 gm Chinook [13.60 %] (10 min) Hops
10 min 50.00 gm Simcoe [12.20 %] (10 min) Hops

-- Steep Hops
Amount Item Type
50.00 gm Centennial [10.00 %] (60 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops
50.00 gm Chinook [13.60 %] (60 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops
50.00 gm Simcoe [12.20 %] (60 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep)

Add Ingredients to Fermenter
Amount Item Type
100.00 gm Simcoe [12.20 %] (Dry Hop 7 days) Hops
100.00 gm Chinook [12.90 %] (Dry Hop 7 days) Hops

OG 1078
IBU:146

bloody hell if i did that on my comercial kit id roughly use nearly 22kg of hops.....

Haha, damn. US IIPAs use as many hops as that, I am lead to belive that Pliny the Elder has 15g of dry hops per L, so if you were doing a 1000L batch thats 15kg of dry hops on their own. Damn I want to try that beer.