Doc's Infinity + 2 Quad Ipa

[petesbrew]

When it comes time to serve it, how about one of those ss. tea leaf balls filled with fresh flowers in each glass?

I'm in awe of the hopped blow off vessel. :blink:

 

[Fourstar]

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

 

[Greg Lawrence]

You have inspried me Doc.

Heres whats going in tomorrows hop cleanout.
Not quite as crazy as yours and no sparge water hops, but it should still have a bit of bite.

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 35.00 L
Boil Size: 43.84 L
Estimated OG: 1.107 SG
Estimated Color: 12.7 SRM
Estimated IBU: 154.4 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
7.50 kg Maris Otter (Simpsons) (5.0 SRM) Grain 45.45 %
5.00 kg Pale Malt, Traditional Ale (Joe White) (6.0)Grain 30.30 %
2.00 kg Rye Malt (Weyermann) (8.0 SRM) Grain 12.12 %
1.00 kg Carahell (Weyermann) (9.9 SRM) Grain 6.06 %
1.00 kg Carapils (Briess) (1.5 SRM) Grain 6.06 %

No 60 minute/bittering addition.

135.5g of the following hop mixture at 3 minute intervals from 20 to 0 minutes.

200g Challenger
200g Simcoe
200g target
200g B-saaz
100g Centennial
100g Amarillo Gold
100g Nelson sav

Havent decided what yeast to use yet.

Gregor

 

[Doc]

Look good Greg. How did you go Greg ?
Did you get 75% eff with such a big beer or did you have to add some sugar ?

Beers,
Doc

 

[manticle]

There is such a thing as loving hops too much.

Pretty pleased that a google image search of the single word 'hop' brings up this page though: http://www.google.com.au/images?hl=en&...q=&gs_rfai=

Take that one legged bastards.

 

[barls]

damn pics of my costume for the next anhc has been leaked already

 

[Greg Lawrence]

Look good Greg. How did you go Greg ?
Did you get 75% eff with such a big beer or did you have to add some sugar ?

Beers,
Doc

No, only got 1.095. Might add some sugar later in the fermenter.
The 1st time using a hop sock. I actually used 2 of them. Got 250g in each of them and they were pretty much buggered. Just put the other 600g in the kettle. Wont bother using a hop sock ever again.

Probably should have saved the used hops for Freddo.

 

[Doc]

Finally getting a moment to revisit some older incomplete topics.

I did end up dry hopping this beer and got it kegged some time ago.
One thing that strikes me about this beer is its EXTREME murky colour. It is like a slightly milky brown colour. Very had to describe.
The aroma is also pretty intense. The FG was 1.010 giving a total of 12.7%

It is a BIG beer, but if you are ready for it, it is intense but drinkable.
I was brewing my latest commercial beer recently and I took a sample to the brewery to run through the lab equip to find out just how much bitterness made it into solution.
The result was 152IBU's.

Still undecided whether I'll bring it or something else to Brew Share at Darlo in Feb

Doc