Doc's Infinity + 2 Quad Ipa

[Doc]

I thought I smelled hops....

Looks very interesting Doc. Could you post the recipe and your hop schedule?

It was 9 additions of 283 grams made up of the 23 hop blend.
Additions were Mash Hop, Sparge Water Hop, First Wort Hop, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10.

38.4% TF Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt UK
38.4% TF Golden Promise Pale Ale Ma UK
17.6% Weyermann Bohemian Pilsner Germany
5.6% Cane Sugar


Doc

 

[Doc]

I wonder what Doc's estimate is regarding when the beer will be at it's peak.

Probably around 18mths.

I presume the plan is to age some of this brew Doc?

Yeah, will keg half (10L party keg) and bottle half (champagne bottles)


Doc

 

[thelastspud]

Ive never even heard of sparge hops before. Sounds like itll be a top brew

 

[petesbrew]

That looks insane!

 

[revdrjbob]

Doc,

Just had a flash back a couple of years to a triple DIPA I brewed in '06 that was sort of a DFH 90min clone on roids. It had a starting OG of 1.100 and hop mashing, FWH and 13 hop additions over a 90 min boil (about every 7 or so minutes) to give a calculated IBU of 390, which was just over 500g in 22Ltrs. It was amazing, dry hopped for 3 weeks, kegged and bottled. I think the only issues I had were with kettle trub and dry hops, but all in all an awesome experience.

I think it's time again for a monster double/triple/quad IPA...

 

[joshuahardie]

Subscribed.... This will be an interesting review.

 

[zebba]

No dry hop? tip it... h34r:

 

[Doc]

No dry hop? tip it... h34r:

It hasn't got that far yet
May need to dig out the randal for serving it too.

Doc

 

[zebba]

It hasn't got that far yet
May need to dig out the randal for serving it too.

Doc

hahah - my faith has been renewed.

 

[jimi]

Now where are those folk who like to calculate how cheap our brewing is? Let's do some numbers

Hope she turns out well for you Doc. I get tempted to go 'big' and beyond the usual IPA realms, but I find there's relatively little info/feedback on 100+ IBU beers to build upon and the cost of hops for a big IPA keeps me from going too experimental - at least until I have a Smurto hop forest growing.

 

[drsmurto]

Now where are those folk who like to calculate how cheap our brewing is? Let's do some numbers

Hope she turns out well for you Doc. I get tempted to go 'big' and beyond the usual IPA realms, but I find there's relatively little info/feedback on 100+ IBU beers to build upon and the cost of hops for a big IPA keeps me from going too experimental - at least until I have a Smurto hop forest growing.

Funnily enough the first thing i did when i saw this thread was calculate the amount of wet hops i would need to brew it :lol:

Doc used 2.54kg of hops not including whatever he dry hops and stuffs in a randall.

Assuming wet hops are 85% water i would need 17kg of fresh flowers.......

I did predict a crop of 7-8kg wet of each of the 5 plants..... h34r:

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

I did predict a crop of 7-8kg wet of each of the 5 plants..... h34r:

Yer. I've got two big moccona jars of POR from last year in the freezer as well as assorted pellet dregs and thought...

 

[jimi]

Funnily enough the first thing i did when i saw this thread was calculate the amount of wet hops i would need to brew it :lol:

Doc used 2.54kg of hops not including whatever he dry hops and stuffs in a randall.

Assuming wet hops are 85% water i would need 17kg of fresh flowers.......

I did predict a crop of 7-8kg wet of each of the 5 plants..... h34r:

Sounds like you could do 2 Doc Quad IPAs a year and still have enough to cover the rest of the year. where is the green with jelousy icon

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

Sounds like you could do 2 Doc Quad IPAs a year and still have enough to cover the rest of the year. where is the green with jelousy icon

You could grow hops in Colac...

 

[jimi]

You could grow hops in Colac...

I am, but I won't get to Smurto's level this year.

Without going too far off topic anyone got a book or link to some completely 'out there' beers like Docs Quad?

Doc - How do you even begin to formulate a beer of this size ie how do you balance ~ 400 IBUs ?

 

[bigholty]

Doc - How do you even begin to formulate a beer of this size ie how do you balance ~ 400 IBUs ?

Balance is not a word that applies to beers such as this. Actually, if the hops used were placed on one end of a plank, and the grain on the other, then it would balance!

 

[Doc]

Doc - How do you even begin to formulate a beer of this size ie how do you balance ~ 400 IBUs ?

You stuff as much grain in the mash tun as feasibly possible and choose a yeast that has a fighting chance of eating through it all whilst still providing a multi-dimensional beer.

OG is 1.104 and the yeast is Pacman. Chomp chomp chomp yeasties.

Doc

 

[Fourstar]

Doc, you forgot one thing..... mill hopping. :lol:

 

[Doc]

Doc, you forgot one thing..... mill hopping. :lol:

It is redundant as the hops go into the mash anyway.

But I like your thinking.

Doc

 

[Doc]

Thanks to a suggestion from Ozbeer_MD the blow off vessel is now hopped too.

On a side note the airlock blocked and the QuadIPA blew the fermenter lid off.

In the cleanup I got krausen on my shirt sleeve. Hop Aftershave for me today

Doc