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While I’m still waiting on the delivery confirmation email from FedEx of my ingredients, I am planning on brewing an IPA tomorrow in search of the ever elusive “mega hop aroma/flavor” (see previous entry)…  It’s not exactly the monster I envisioned during my fit of “Hops Madness”, but it should turn out to be a bitter and citrus kick in the jaw.

This will also be my 1st batch going into the new kegging system Angie bought me for Christmas (I know, she’s awesome).  I’m a little nervous about it as I’m initially resistant to change, but it beats cleaning and sanitizing fifty or so 12 ounce bottles!! So, if you want some homebrew I can bottle on demand or ideally my friends will purchase 1/2 gallon growlers .

Not that many brewers read this blog, but I’m going to start posting my recipes and process information/adjustments here for my benefit at the very least.  All recipes will be for 5 gallon batches unless otherwise stated.

Surly Furious IPA clone:

Grain

• 9.5 lbs. American 2 row
• 2.5 lbs. Munich
• 1 lbs. Belgian Cara 45
• .5 lbsCaramel 60
• .125 lbs.s Black Malt

Hops (times in parenthesis are amount of time left in the boil)

• 1 oz. Summit (60 min)
• 1 oz. Cascade (60 min)
• .5 oz. Ahtanum (20 min)
• .5 oz. Amarillo (20 min)
• .5 oz. Simcoe (20 min)
• .5 oz. Ahtanum (10 min)
• .5 oz. Amarillo (10 min)
• .5 oz. Simcoe (10 min)

• 2 oz. Simcoe Hops (dry hop)
• 1 oz. Amarillo Hops (dry hop)

Yeast

• Safale S-04 @ 63*F

The only change I made from the kits for this clone are in the yeast.  Most call for Nottingham (Danstar), but I’m going to use Safale S-04.  It’s another dry English ale yeast, but I’ve better luck in the past with it.  It seems to attenuate a bit better and flocculate (drop out of suspension) more completely.

I plan on dry hopping for 4 days at 68*F at the end of primary fermentation and then cold crash the beer to 35*F for 24 hours and then straight into the keg.  I like my IPA’s as fresh as possible, and the cold crash should help to clear the brew so no secondary here.  I will try to remember to take some pics of my process and update this tomorrow afternoon.

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