Imperial IPA....

[adm]

No thats for 15L.

Will be bottling in 330ml bottles so that will end up being at least 40 bottles. Which is plenty for a massive beer like that.

Sorry to get confused but are you saying you would use simcoe for bittering rather than the aroma/flavour? Was looking to see if I could get the passionfruit/pineapple thing going on that Simcoe is supposed to produce.

Ah. 15L makes perfect sense!

Personally, I'd use Simcoe for the bittering (as I believe that the bittering addition does carry some flavour over), and use some in the flavour addition (mixed with the other hops), plus a little tiny bit in the aroma addition. I think they give a resiny, piney taste that I love in a big beer - especially with strong citrussy flavour and aroma hops. Having said that, I have no idea what Herkules are like.

I like to kind of "blend" my hop additions on complex beers like these, so the Simcoe theme would carry through from bittering to aroma, but only in a small way, so that it just kind of hints at it rather than hits you with it.

[adm]

The 'Pliny the Elder' (supposedly the definitive IIPA) clone from Brewing Classic Styles has 11% sugar and an OG of 1.080 to help with the attenuation. I think it would be a good idea to replace 5 - 11 % with table sugar, yeah.

It also has close to 200g of dry hops in a 5 gallon batch

Including simcoe

I'm going to have to buy the book and make that. Especially after getting pished on Pliny last week. It was superb.

[adm]

On another note, how much wort/beer am I going to lose to 300 grams of hops?

I have found that dried whole flower hops absorb roughly 15ml per gramme. So 300g of hops will give you about 4.5L of wort loss.

Your mileage may vary.

[adm]

my local sainsburys sells Jaggery adm, and its a relatively small one too.

I'll have a look in mine....it's a very small one! (Oo-err missus)

[Subsonic]

Off topic ADM - but when is the film with the hound out? Wife just saw your dog and remembered the story. Subsonic

[adm]

Cheers ADM! I wondered what size batch that was as well! IPA and that amount of IBU?!?!, Oh momma! I just finished a weekend of brewing, managed to get 88 litres done with my home harvested hops including the Mysterio IPA. They are fab beers. Subsonic

What's the Mysti IPA recipe, Sub ? I really need to up my batch size......23L is great (especially for having a variety of beers to drink), but I think i need to go to 100L or so.

[adm]

Off topic ADM - but when is the film with the hound out? Wife just saw your dog and remembered the story. Subsonic

Haha! We've heard it's meant to be in cinemas in May/June next year. Of course, the pooch will probably get left on the cutting room floor. We'll see....

[Subsonic]

Check out Recipes and Kentish IPA. I got the hops and Mysterio formulated the recipe. I'm on a farm with pretty much the original 'Fuggles' plants growing all around me although most are dug up now, but some are left. I hoovered them all. You want a sample?

[Subsonic]

lol! I reckon your dog has a good chance of being seen. No vanity, no stars in his eyes, etc... Anyhow, I digress from beer!

[adm]

Check out Recipes and Kentish IPA. I got the hops and Mysterio formulated the recipe. I'm on a farm with pretty much the original 'Fuggles' plants growing all around me although most are dug up now, but some are left. I hoovered them all. You want a sample?

Nice one.....I'd love a sample, but to be honest, I've got so many hops in at the minute that I'm going to be hard pushed to use them up as it is. I'm going to have to do some big assed hop bombs over the next couple of months.

[196osh]

Hops
Simcoe 12.7% a.a. 90mins
50g
Centennial 11.9%a.a. 15mins
35g
Chinook 12.7% a.a. 15mins
35g
Simcoe 12.7% a.a. 15mins
20g
Chinook 12.7% a.a. 0mins
35g
Centennial 11.9%a.a. 0mins
35g
Simcoe 12.7% a.a. 0mins
10g
Centennial 11.9%a.a. Dry Hop
30g
Chinook 12.7% a.a. Dry Hop
30g
Simcoe 12.7% a.a. Dry Hop
20g

How does that look?