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BIAB - New IPA Recipe

Post #1 made 11 years ago
by windrider
Here’s a new IPA recipe I’m planning on brewing this weekend. After a lot of searching online I’m reasonably happy with the grainbill but not 100% sure on my HopBill (not sure if I should up it a little bit more).

This is the first IPA I’ve brewed and fancied coming up with my own recipe that I can adapt on future brews to get exactly what I want. This will be the first time DH and my 4th ever BIAB so venturing in to new territory.

Any comments/critique are appreciated.


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Recipe Overview

Brewer: windrider
Style: IPA
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ABV: 5.4% (assumes any priming sugar used is diluted.)

Original Gravity (OG): 1.056
IBU's (Tinseth): 55
Bitterness to Gravity Ratio: 0.98
Colour: 13 EBC = 6.6 SRM

Kettle Efficiency (as in EIB and EAW): 82.6 %
Efficiency into Fermentor (EIF): 70.8 %

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

Times and Temperatures

Mash: 90 mins at 66 C = 150.8 F
Boil: 90 min
Ferment: 12 days at 20 C = 68 F

Volumes & Gravities
(Note that VAW below is the Volume at Flame-Out (VFO) less shrinkage.)
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Total Water Needed (TWN): 44.4 L = 11.73 G
Volume into Boil (VIB): 40.51 L = 10.7 G @ 1.039
Volume of Ambient Wort (VAW): 26.83 L = 7.09 G @ 1.056
Volume into Fermentor (VIF): 23 L = 6.08 G @ 1.056
Volume into Packaging (VIP): 21.3 L = 5.63 G @ 1.014 assuming apparent attenuation of 75 %

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

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83.2% Maris Otter (5.5 EBC = 2.8 SRM) 5112 grams = 11.27 pounds
9.5% Pale Wheat Malt (3.5 EBC = 1.8 SRM) 584 grams = 1.29 pounds
2.4% Amber Malt - Crisp (50 EBC = 25.4 SRM) 150 grams = 0.33 pounds
4.9% Pale Crystal Malt (60 EBC = 30.5 SRM) 299 grams = 0.66 pounds


The Hop Bill (Based on Tinseth Formula)

45 IBU Chinook Flowers (13%AA) 42.5 grams = 1.5 ounces at 60 mins
10 IBU Simcoe Flowers (13.2%AA) 18.7 grams = 0.66 ounces at 15 mins
0 IBU Amarillo Flowers (8.9%AA) 21.3 grams = 0.75 ounces at 0 mins
0 IBU Amarillo Flowers (8.9%AA) 23.8 grams = 0.84 ounces at 0 mins (Dry Hopped)
0 IBU Simcoe Flowers (13.2%AA) 23.8 grams = 0.84 ounces at 0 mins (Dry Hopped)

Mash Steps

Mash Type: Pure BIAB (Full-Volume Mash): Saccharifiaction for 90 mins at 66 C = 150.8 F


Chilling & Hop Management Methods

Hopsock Used: N

Chilling Method: no cube chill

Fermentation & Conditioning

Fermentation: US-05 for 12 days at 20 C = 68 F

Special Instructions/Notes on this Beer

Dry hop 3-5 days after primary ferment is finished.
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Last edited by windrider on 20 Jan 2015, 20:30, edited 1 time in total.
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Post #2 made 11 years ago
by goulaigan
Looks like a good recipe to me! Perhaps a bit of a mild IPA but looks tasty, I say brew it and tweak it and brew it again until it's exactly what you are looking for, or better! I have been designing mostly all of my own recipes since my 2nd BIAB, way more fun than fiddling around with clones etc. IMHO. Haven't made a bad one yet, although definitely not all competition winners either hah, but I like the satisfaction of making something totally my own. Good on you for doing the same!
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Post #3 made 11 years ago
by Rick
Looks good to me. I'd double the dry hops, but that's just personal preference.


If you drop your bittering charge from 50g to 41g, the left and right sides of the hop bill will match.
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Post #4 made 11 years ago
by onkeltuka
I also spent a lot of time thinking about the hop bill of my first IPA a while back. It really depends what kind of hoppiness you prefer? It can be a hard hitting straight-to-your-face bitterness, a strong but soft bitterness that is more in the background, a really skanky and resiny aromatic hoppiness that is more in the nose than in the mouth... Personally I've noticed that the IBU's tell only a part of the story. First Wort Hopping is something that I will use a lot on all coming IPA's, it takes the edge out of that bittering load. Good luck!
"The rules for making hop additions during the boil are about as well defined as those for a knife fight." -Stan Hieronymus

Post #5 made 11 years ago
by windrider
Thanks for the advice guys. Decided to follows Rick advice and double the DH for this.

Ingredients arrived today so hoping i'll be able to brew this at the weekend, can't wait! :thumbs:
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Post #6 made 11 years ago
by windrider
I got around to brewing this on Saturday and it went reasonably smoothly. Slightly out on my OG by 1 point (1.057). While clearing up I realised that I had forgotten the Irish Moss :headhit: so I’m hoping that I will still get a clear beer once I’ve bottled.

Some pictures below:
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Noticed that I had a fair bit of trub. I’m not worried about it ending up in my fermenter but is it worth racking it to a 2nd vessel to dry hob at the end of the ferment?
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Last edited by windrider on 26 Jan 2015, 20:17, edited 2 times in total.
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Post #7 made 11 years ago
by goulaigan
Nice pics! Congrats on the brew, I am really bad for forgetting the whirfloc too, although it makes it last longer if you forget it half the time hah! Let us know how this turns out, I'm sure it will be awesome! Oh and if you store it cold for long enough after its condtioned it should clear up anyway....
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Post #8 made 11 years ago
by PistolPatch
In a rush windrider but all I want to say here is, 'Good job!',...

and...

'You haven't read enough here if you think that 1 point on OG of 1.057 is of any significance.' Do a search here on, "a single reading from a single brew".

From now on I expect you to answer all questions where a member questions gravity actual versus estimates. (And, make sure you have read all the posts I have written today because gravity is actually irrelevant without knowing volume as well).

;)
PP
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Post #9 made 11 years ago
by windrider
PistolPatch wrote:In a rush windrider but all I want to say here is, 'Good job!',...

and...

'You haven't read enough here if you think that 1 point on OG of 1.057 is of any significance.' Do a search here on, "a single reading from a single brew".

From now on I expect you to answer all questions where a member questions gravity actual versus estimates. (And, make sure you have read all the posts I have written today because gravity is actually irrelevant without knowing volume as well).

;)
PP
Thanks for your response PP :)

I wasn’t really worried about being slightly out on my estimated OG. Like you mentioned on your posts, you can always dilute the wort if you are that far off what you estimated.

My VIF was spot on (5 gallons) so was pleased with that. I really need to take some more readings on the next brew, so I can truly work out my efficiencies.
Last edited by windrider on 30 Jan 2015, 20:41, edited 1 time in total.
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Post #10 made 11 years ago
by windrider
I’ve opened a few bottles of this and it has come out better than I had hoped :thumbs:

Really drinkable and has mellowed in the bottles. The hop kick is perfect and isn’t completely in your face and the malt profile goes well. Going to make some minor tweaks on the next batch. I’m thinking about dropping the amount of bittering hops slightly and adding a bit more amber malt.

Given a few bottles out to friends for some constructive criticism. But even my old man (who is very picky with his beers) enjoyed it and said he’d happily pay for a pint of it…which is a first for my homebrew!

It never dropped clear and I know this isn’t important. But wondering if this was down to the dry hops, forgetting the irish moss or because I ended up with a fair bit of trub in the fermenter?
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Post #11 made 11 years ago
by goulaigan
That looks great! Glad it turned out so well. I would bet if you leave it in the fridge a couple more weeks it will further clear, but sometimes it's hard to make it last that long hah! Either way, you can't taste clarity, at least I can't..
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Post #12 made 11 years ago
by windrider
goulaigan wrote:That looks great! Glad it turned out so well. I would bet if you leave it in the fridge a couple more weeks it will further clear, but sometimes it's hard to make it last that long hah! Either way, you can't taste clarity, at least I can't..
Haha no chance of leaving it for that long without it getting drunk :argh:
Last edited by windrider on 09 Mar 2015, 22:14, edited 1 time in total.
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