Brewday 07/04/2007 Original IPA

[Andy]

Just finished clearing up....

There are quite a few hops on the compost heap

http://www.knownentity.com/misc/brewing/ipa.htm

[Andy]

Spent hops next to a boot for comparison

[steve_flack]

An expensive beer then

[DRB]

Boy all those hops are going to make your toes curl.Did it all go as planned.

[Andy]

An expensive beer then

Not outrageous :-

Pale malt - £6
Hops - £5.60
Yeast - Free

Certainly more than I'd normally spend on ingredients though

DRB: Yes, pretty much to plan. Mash was fine, had to attend to the boil quite a bit though, all those hops kept trying to escape And it needs a year to mature, the hop flavours mellow over that time.

[mysterio]

Not too bad £-wise, looks like a great beer. Is that slurp's EKGs by any chance or do you have your own supply?

[Andy]

Not too bad £-wise, looks like a great beer. Is that slurp's EKGs by any chance or do you have your own supply?

Local brewery.

[SteveD]

Nice one Andy. I'm brewng it soon myself. We can compare late next year You could have mashed a huge ammount of malt. First run would be the IPA, and then boiled the second weaker beer with the spent hops from the IPA. The Victorians used to do that. I might give that a go.

Boy all those hops are going to make your toes curl.Did it all go as planned.

Well, they would if you drank the beer too soon, but after 12-18months..sublime. For ages afterwards the glass and empty bottle smell like you stuck your face in a sack of fresh hops.

[notassuch]

Wow that looks immense! The venue for the Spring 2008 Jims Beer Kit Beer Festival is decided then!

[Bigster]

What a hopper

I guess it will all be bottled or are you going to corni some ?

I think I might have a go at this beauty as I was most taken with an IPA at the CBA do last week. Thats assuming theres any EKGs left in circulation....

[Andy]

I'll fill a cornie and bottle the rest

I think seveneer blagged the other half of the goldings harvest a few days ago so sorry chaps

[Andy]

Yeast head is now formed, phew ! Had a taste of the foam and its.......*very* bitter

[Andy]

Here's the contents after 18 hrs of the hydrometer* tube I used to measure the OG

http://www.knownentity.com/misc/brewing/ipa_hydro.jpg

Shouldn't have any probs with protein haze then



* had to dig the hydrometer out as the OG was off the scale of my 0-18 % brix refractometer

[maxashton]

i dont mean to alarm you, andy, but you appear to have a cat squashed into your sample jar

[Andy]

Transfered this one from conditioning tank to cornie tonight.

File away for 12 months now