Crystal Rye IPA - choose my hops!

[daf]

Hi

I've 5kg Maris, 1kg Crystal Rye (plus bits of Light Crystal and Carapils if that's good)

I want to make an IPA highlighting one of these hops (which I have 100g of each):

Citra
Chinook
Ahtanum

Any suggestions?

[DaveyT]

Not sure about the hops, but I can suggest you use 4 - 5% crystal rye malt. I've been using that much CaraRye with excellent results. 1% black malt goes nicely if you have it. I think crystal rye and cararye are the same.

[daf]

Ta, I was wondering whether that was too much crystal rye. I do have some black malt as it happens.

[Cpt.Frederickson]

I would go Chinook, then dry hop with Ahtanum. I know you said one hop, but 200g of hops always goes well

[daf]

Right - overnight mash for this one.

Crystal Rye IPA
Method: BIAB
Style: Specialty Beer
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 23 liters (fermentor volume)
Boil Size: 34 liters
Boil Gravity: 1.035 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 75% (brew house)
Original Gravity:
1.051
Final Gravity:
1.011
ABV (standard):
5.27%
IBU (tinseth):
45.24
SRM (morey):
17.01
Fermentables
Amount Fermentable PPG °L Bill %
5 kg United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale 38 3.75 92.6%
0.3 kg United Kingdom - Crystal Rye 33 90 5.6%
0.1 kg American - Black Malt 28 500 1.9%
5.4 kg Total
Hops
Amount Variety Type AA Use Time IBU
25 g Chinook Leaf/Whole 13 Boil 30 min 28.71
25 g Chinook Leaf/Whole 13 Aroma 10 min 13.55
25 g Ahtanum Leaf/Whole 5.2 Boil 5 min 2.98
Hops Summary
Amount Variety Type AA
25 g Ahtanum Leaf/Whole 5.2
50 g Chinook Leaf/Whole 13
Yeast
Mangrove Jack - Workhorse Beer Yeast
Attenuation (avg):
78%
Flocculation:
Medium
Optimum Temp:
15 - 20 °C
Starter:
No
Fermentation Temp:
20 °C
Pitch Rate:
0.35 (M cells / ml / ° P)
102 B cells required


Will dry hop with 25g of each for a week or two. Thanks for the advice!

[daf]

Mashed in around 7:30 pm on 17th Feb. 36 litres (two more than I usually do). Brought the water up to 70deg.


Two fleeces this time - 68deg.

[daf]

Temperature of the mash this morning was 49.5

Did a 60 minute boil, with 25g of Chinook in at 30 minutes, another 25g at 10 with 25g of Ahtanum.

Into the no-chill and brew finished before half nine.


Overnight is way more convenient!

[Hugh Jampton]

I made a beer with Maris Otter, 10% Crystal Rye and Chinook at 60 and 15 minutes for an IBU of about 40. It was good, very good.

[daf]

I hit my target of 1:051 spot on, and got 23 litres in the bucket for the first time without having to liquor back.

[daf]

Bottled last Sunday, the 8th March. I had let it ferment out for 14 days and dry hopped with about 30g of Ahtanum pellets for a week.


Tasted today, carbed enough after five days, the sediment settled really well in the bottle and I could pour a clear 490ml.

Tastes very nice....different to my normal pale ales. Very rich caramelly, kind of fruity from the rye, balanced out well bitterness. Aroma not as hoppy as I would have liked, in hindsight would have dry hopped with at least 50g of pellets.

Decision to chuck in the pellets rather than use a hop bag and me hop spider was okay.

All in all, in a few weeks this is going to be a nice one, not a session ale, but a rich livener in between the regular sinkers. I'll be giving some of these to workmates. Pic:

[Manngold]

Looks fab. What is the type of tubing that you use to the chill cube? I could do with some!

[Cpt.Frederickson]

Use silicone tube, platinum cured is the stuff you want.

[daf]

I think it's silicon, I got it with a big pile of homebrew stuff in a car booter.

[daf]