Loosely following a recipe for 60 Minute IPA i came up with the following. Falconers Flight was chosen as its a IPA hop blend so will hopefully work well, and the recipe is scaled to use the whole pack up. Also when hopping every 5 mins its easier dealing with just one pack. I added a little sugar to dry it out (more of a english thing than american but i couldn't help myself), also when using mangrove jacks west coast yeast before i found that it finishes a little dryer than US05. The Acid malt i add to every brew to help reduce alkalinity.
American IPA
Target Gravity: 1.075
Batch size: 9L
Bitterness: 94 IBU
Grains
2600g Low Colour Pale malt
75g Acid Malt
75g Amber Malt
100g Golden syrup
Mash Schedule
Mash in 7L @ 66C for 1 hour
Batch Sparge1 6 @76C
Hop Schedule
1.00 gm Falconers Flight (60 min) (First Wort Hop) 2.6 IBU
2.00 gm Falconers Flight (60 min) 4.8 IBU
2.00 gm Falconers Flight (55 min) 4.7 IBU
2.00 gm Falconers Flight (50 min) 4.6 IBU
4.00 gm Falconers Flight (45 min) 8.8 IBU
4.00 gm Falconers Flight (40 min) 8.4 IBU
4.00 gm Falconers Flight (35 min) 7.9 IBU
6.00 gm Falconers Flight (30 min) 11.0 IBU
6.00 gm Falconers Flight (25 min) 10.0 IBU
6.00 gm Falconers Flight (20 min) 8.7 IBU
9.00 gm Falconers Flight (15 min) 10.7 IBU
9.00 gm Falconers Flight (10 min) 7.8 IBU
9.00 gm Falconers Flight (5 min) 4.3 IBU
18.00 gm Falconers Flight (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops
18.00 gm Falconers Flight (Dry Hop 3 days)
Water Treatment
1/4 Camden Tablet
5ml CRS
2.2g Gypsum
Yeast
Mangrove Jacks West Coast M44
Fement @ 18C
Ingredients all set up:
Warming strike water. Using the temp controller just as a thermometer:
Mashing in. Mash was a bit thin and it turns out i used 1L too much when i noticed the sparge water was short.
Mash done. I heated it to 76C before sparging. Although i was aiming for a 66C mash it was more of a range between 64 - 68. As the temp dropped i applied gentle heat to bring it back up again.
Re-circulating the wort to try and clear a little. The mash was emptied into a bucket with a mashing and sparge bag.
Running off the wort
One of many hop additions:
After cooling gave it a stir to try and keep the hops in the middle to siphon off the edge:
It soon settled and at fortunately there are no photos of the chaos as i disturbed everything with the siphon and ended up trying to sieve out the hops. I hate siphons.
Eventually i got a little under the target 9L. I used a 2 gal pressure parrel for the fermenter and tucked it away in my temp controlled fridge at 18C
Target gravity also a little short at 1.072.
Next morning looks like fermentation is underway.
Turns out i'm a but rusty brewing like this but it was fun to go back to how i started. Its easy to think a small batch with simple equipment would be quicker and easier but it takes just as long a bigger batch, not matter how i've brews either like this, 3 vessel setup or the BM it always takes me all day to brew and then clear up.
