Spacemaker IPA
23L at OG1070
9kg Low Colour MO Pale Malt
304g fuggles & goldings, home grown - 90 mins
116g goldings gold foil pack - 90 mins
72g fuggles home grown - steep
48g goldings gold foil pack -steep
dry hops, probably 30-60g goldings
3 x Nottingham yeast
Pretty much a traditional IPA recipe - the qty of malt and copper hop rate is more or less Durden Park's 'Original IPA', but with James McCrorie's twist of a wodge of late hops as well as dry.
Mashed and batch sparged to get enough sugar for 38-39L preboil down to 27L OG1070 at switch off, as those hops were going to rob loads of wort. I thought I'd get about 20L in the FV. Hiccup - mash manifold came away from the connecting pipe. Had to drain mash into boiler and dig out enough grain to reattach the manifold, then put the grain back and refill the mash tun.
This is a bonkers brew - pics to illustrate the quantity of hops involved:-
Brewer's Acolyte modeling the copper hops - that's a 3.5 gallon fermenter.
Forcing that ammount of hops into wort was fun - had to beat them in with a paddle to make thick hop soup - hop porridge by the end of the boil.
Late hops
20L ran off at OG1071-1072, so the hops were sparged to get 23L at 1070. The aroma is fantastic and the wort is as bitter as my ex-wife, but with lovely flavour, so it bodes well. Needs to be kept a year at least. There were 25L of spent hops in the boiler afterwards - no wonder the Victorians re-used them
Going to brew another one soon with gold foil goldings.
Still, all being well, it should mellow down into something that's worth the effort.
