Classic IIPA recipe for comment

[richc]

I haven't tried making an IIPA for ages, the last one was when I was still extract brewing and was a rubbish IIPA but matured into a decent barley wine.

So here is a recipe for comment.

21l brew length

6.5l Pale malt (probably MO as I have loads of it)
0.5kg Crystal
.1kg wheat malt
.5kg sugar

Mash at 64C or so for 90 minutes

60 minute boil with

70g Chinook @ 60 minutes
60g Cascade @ 20 minutes
30g Cascade @ 1 minute

Ferment with loads of US-05

Dry hop with another 30g Cascade

Any comments or ideas are more than welcome

[richc]

That makes

SG 1.080
ABV ~9%
Bitterness 108 IBU
Colour 23 EBC

[smdjoachim]

I'd mash at 68,otherwise with that sugar the beer will have a low FG.(thin)
Double the later hops and add lots more dry hops.

[richc]

More hops, always more hops .

The reason for the low mash temp is to try and get the FG down, the classic Pliny recipe mashes at 65-66 and the current Arrogant Bastard CYBI clone is at 64.5.

[smdjoachim]

The reason for the low mash temp is to try and get the FG down, the classic Pliny recipe mashes at 65-66 and the current Arrogant Bastard CYBI clone is at 64.5.

That's because they tend not to use sugar.