New IPA recipe using BIABacus

Here's a new IPA recipe i'm planning on brewing tomorrow. Im happy with the grainbill and have used it on a number of IPA attempts, but up until now I always seem to be light on in regards to hops. While the beer tastes great its stuck half way between an APA & an IPA and doesn't have that big hop punch (flavour and aroma) that you get from Ferals Hop Hog, or Sierra Nervarda torpedo IPA.

Recently I've been looking at Bob Brews black IPA and his heavy handed hop tactics so I've upped the hops in my batch to what seems like crazy levels to match Bobs flippant destruction of large acres of hops plantations for his own personal enjoyment.

Any comments/critique are appreciated.
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Recipe Overview

Brewer: Aces high
Style: IPA
Source Recipe Link:

Original Gravity (OG): 1.056
IBU's (Tinseth): 51.4
Bitterness to Gravity Ratio: 0.92
Colour: 9.7 SRM = 19.2 EBC
ABV%: 5.06

Efficiency into Kettle (EIK): 80.8 %
Efficiency into Fermentor (EIF): 72.8 %

Note: This is a Pure BIAB (Full Volume Mash)

Times and Temperatures

Mash: 60 mins at 66 C = 150.8 F
Boil: 60 min
Ferment: 14 days at 17 C = 62.6 F

Volumes & Gravities

Total Water Needed (TWN): 73.79 L = 19.49 G
Volume into Kettle (VIK): 68.27 L = 18.03 G @ 1.047
End of Boil Volume - Ambient (EOBV-A): 55.5 L = 14.66 G @ 1.056
Volume into Fermentor (VIF): 50 L = 13.21 G @ 1.056
Volume into Packaging (VIP): 48.15 L = 12.72 G @ 1.017 assuming apparent attenuation of 70 %

The Grain Bill (Also includes extracts, sugars and adjuncts)

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83.4% Pale Ale (5.9 SRM = 11.6 EBC) 10827 grams = 23.87 pounds
9.5% Wheat Malt (3.9 SRM = 7.7 EBC) 1237 grams = 2.73 pounds
5.1% Amber (43.3 SRM = 39.4 EBC) 658 grams = 1.45 pounds
2% Crystal 10 (19.7 SRM = 38.8 EBC) 263 grams = 0.58 pounds

The Hop Bill

Based on Tinseth IBUs.

26.1 IBU CTZ Pellets (15.8%AA) 38.1 grams = 1.343 ounces at 60 mins
11.9 IBU Cascade Pellets (7.8%AA) 71 grams = 2.506 ounces at 15 mins
7.5 IBU Meridian Pellets (6.7%AA) 71 grams = 2.506 ounces at 10 mins
6 IBU Centennial Pellets (9.7%AA) 71 grams = 2.506 ounces at 5 mins
0 IBU Cascade Pellets (7.8%AA) 71 grams = 2.506 ounces at 0 mins (5 mins after flame out)
0 IBU Meridian Pellets (6.7%AA) 71 grams = 2.506 ounces at 0 mins (5 mins after flame out.)
0 IBU Cascade Pellets (7.8%AA) 72.1 grams = 2.545 ounces at 0 mins (Dry Hopped)

Mash Steps

Mash Type: Pure BIAB (Full Volume Mash) for 60 mins at 66 C = 150.8 F
Mashout for for 0 mins at 77 C = 170.6 F

Miscellaneous Ingredients

1 Whirfloc (Boil) 5 Mins - Clarity

Chilling & Hop Management Methods

Whirlpool: 15 mins after boil end.
Chilling Method: No-Chill (Employed 0 mins after boil end.)

Fermentation& Conditioning

Fermention: 1272 for 14 days at 17 C = 62.6 F
Diacetyl Rest: 2 days at 22 C = 71.6 F
Crash-Chilled: Y
Condition for 7 days.

BIABacus PR1.2 - Hopburst IPA.xls

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Have mercy, you and Bob, save us little people some hops!

It would be interesting to see your BIABacus with any adjustments you made, when she's all done.

Your equipment is big

~richard

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Mad_Scientist wrote:Have mercy, you and Bob, save us little people some hops!

It would be interesting to see your BIABacus with any adjustments you made, when she's all done.

Your equipment is big

~richard

You know Aces high! Come to think of it! I don’t think I really like grains much in IPA at all. I’d just use pale malt if I was making that. It’s a bit like the difference between being a breast man and a leg man (cf. grain man/hop man). I think I’m a hop man. But then I like a nice stout, which is all about grains. I’m probably just mixed up, or inexperienced (with beer)

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Mad_Scientist wrote:Have mercy, you and Bob, save us little people some hops!

It would be interesting to see your BIABacus with any adjustments you made, when she's all done.

Your equipment is big

~richard

I'll make sure I take proper readings for a change and see how we end up. Unfortunately my new refractometer is still in a sorting centre somewhere between here and hong kong Will just have to rely on my 2 slightly different reading hydrometers and hope for the best.

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So it seems like Im gonna run this thread in real time. 5:17pm, mash in

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Probably should have taken a few grain crush and mash in photos, but here are 3 sides of the same pot, exciting eh!

I have a K type thermo + an STC 1000 showing temp. Currently the k type is showing 66.7 degrees and the stc 1000 is showin 65.5 degrees. I received the new k type probe last week from HK and calibrated it on wednesday, so as usual thermometers are my nemesis and I am taking the middle ground temperature wise

BTW, thanks Pat for letting my do a BIABacus trial run on this IPA and thanks Bob for encouraging me to drop a pound of hops on this recipe, lets hop it pays off

More updates to come

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GuingesRock wrote:Love the shed! you could have a microbrewery in there.

thats what i keep telling the missus

So final numbers are in. I finished up with 54.5L in the pot at the end of the boil (at 100 degrees)

Final OG is somewhere between 1054 & 1056. Not sure i quite got 50L into the no chill cubes, but its hard to tell as they dont have proper measurements, i'll find out when i throw it into the fermenter, but I think I may have to up the "losses to trub". This is due to the fact that i have such a wide pot, so even though it doesnt look like a lot, I probably still have 6 to 8L in the bottom.

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mankang wrote:The SRM value for the amber malt looks weird

If you are working on the file currently posted in the original thread, it is probably wrong. Either Aces or we have made a mistake or I have just picked some random value for the value of Amber Malt. (I think the latter is probably the case.) It's important though that you do mention stuff like this as much as you can. Pat and I have been working on a billion BIABacus things today, all day, so it is very hard to devote time to what the SRM value of Amber Malt is. I think that is actually probably your only question but I might be wrong?

I hate writing stuff like the above as it sounds so dismissive but it is often posts like yours mankang that have the most value and save us the most time.

Also, please read this post that was only put out an hour or so ago.


PP

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mankang wrote:I should have been a bit more verbose (but I typed on the phone). I reacted to the fact that the EBC value is lower than the SRM value and my thought was that there might be a bug somewhere.

That is definitely a 'software' error mankang. Good on you . It's not present in the next pre-release which we'll probably give Stu tomorrow.

The error is only relevant to the third ingredient on the right hand side of Section C due to a failed copy and paste in a hidden cell.

Looks like your brew day went smoothly Aces. Not bad considering you went to the pub beforehand .

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2 Pubs PP, 2 pubs Lunch and drinks at one, then a stop in at the local for another couple before coming home to brew... not bad indeed. No burns, scars or cuts and hit most of my numbers.

Now off to the cott for more beers

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