Sunday, November 25, 2012

Dark IPA

Dark IPA

3lbs Pale DME
3lbs Pale Malt
1lb Wheat Malt
1lb Carastan
4oz Debittered Black Malt
8oz Sugar
2oz Northern Brewers Hops
4oz Cascade Hops
Safbrew S-33 Yeast

OG 1.060 (Actual OG was 1.059)
FG 1.016 (Actual FG was 1.020)

Mash all grain at 150f for 60 Minutes, collect wort and bring to a boil.

Boil for 60 minutes with 2oz Northern Brewers @ :60 and 2oz Cascade @ :10

Cool wort, aerate, add to carboy and pitch yeast.

Primary until final gravity is reached.

Transfer to secondary onto 2oz of cascade and dry hop for 1 week.

After dry-hopping transfer to bottling bucket onto 1/2 cup sugar dissolved in 2 cups of water.

Bottle and allow to bottle condition for 1-2 weeks.

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With that out of the way, I brewed this beer Oct 31. Fermentation went well for 2 days and from that point forward it was stuck at 1.030. Safbrew S-33 sucks! I repitched with EC-1118 yeast and it brought it down to 1.020 at which point I just bottled it. Here are some photos I took along the way:

 Ingredients
Mashing in
Hot break

 Fermentation on day two

Before bottling, it is not nearly as dark as it appears
 The end result, 12 750ml and 19 500ml bottles
I'll add a glass shot once it carbs up

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