Galaxy Imperial Ipa

[winkle]

Just in case anyone was watching for the results of this, working backwards after the sugar addition on day 3 I got -

Est Original Gravity: 1.089 SG, Read Gravity: 1.085 SG.
Est Final Gravity: 1.023 SG, Currently: 1020 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 8.75 %
Bitterness: 67.3 IBU Calories: 90 cal/l
Est Color: 6.1 SRM Actual colour ~7 SRM

Just after 8 days, good work US-05!
Still has a pretty decent head in the fermenter and still has plenty of yeast in suspension, so its got a few days left to go and should be around 1.018/1.015 when finished so ABV should be around the target (a fair bit of candied sugar was left on pots/spoons/floor/me - not popular). If the tasty hydo sample is anything to go by it'll be great (if you like passionfruit).

Edit: now to bottle or keg :unsure: .

 

[bullsneck]

I would also up the 5 and DH additions to 30 gm, this should get you closer to an aroma like stone and wood. Below is my SMASH galaxy blonde for comparison.

Galaxy Blonde
Blonde Ale


Type: All Grain
Date: 9/08/2008
Batch Size: 23.00 L
Brewer: Jye
Boil Size: 30.08 L Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 90 min Equipment: SK Brew Hous
Taste Rating(out of 50): 35.0 Brewhouse Efficiency: 80.0
Taste Notes:

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
4.50 kg Pale Malt, Ale (Barrett Burston) (3.0 SRM) Grain 100.0 %
30.00 gm Galaxy [15.00%] (20 min) Hops 30.4 IBU
30.00 gm Galaxy [15.00%] (5 min) Hops 10.0 IBU
30.00 gm Galaxy [15.00%] (Dry Hop 7 days) Hops -
10.00 gm Calcium Sulfate (Gypsum) (Mash 60.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs Safale American US-56 Yeast-Ale



Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.050 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.050 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.012 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.000 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.9 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 6.5 %
Bitterness: 40.4 IBU Calories: 452 cal/l
Est Color: 4.4 SRM Color: Color


Mash Profile

Mash Name: SK Brew Hous Mash Total Grain Weight: 4.50 kg
Sparge Water: 24.33 L Grain Temperature: 25.0 C
Sparge Temperature: 100.0 C TunTemperature: 25.0 C
Adjust Temp for Equipment: FALSE Mash PH: 5.4 PH

Name Description Step Temp Step Time
Mash In Add 11.25 L of water at 71.1 C 65.0 C 90 min

I had a Stone & Wood Draught Ale on the weekend. Top drop.

How'd this compare?

 

[Daniel.lear]

I was going to try this out today, any thoughts or tweaks?

Galaxy AIPA (American IPA)

Original Gravity (OG): 1.065 (P): 15.9
Colour (SRM): 13.2 (EBC): 26.0
Bitterness (IBU): 58.6 (Average)

41.98% Pale Ale Malt
41.98% Pilsner
9.91% Munich I
4.86% Caramunich I
1.26% Carafa II malt

0.8 g/L Galaxy (14% Alpha) @ 40 Minutes (Boil)
0.8 g/L Galaxy (14% Alpha) @ 30 Minutes (Boil)
0.8 g/L Galaxy (14% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Boil)
0.8 g/L Galaxy (14% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil)
0.8 g/L Galaxy (14% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil)
0.8 g/L Galaxy (14% Alpha) @ 0 Days (Dry Hop)


Single step Infusion at 64C for 60 Minutes. Boil for 90 Minutes

Fermented at 18C with Safale US-05


Recipe Generated with BrewMate

 

[speedie]

get some citra and try the same hop bill you may be suprised

 

[argon]

get some citra and try the same hop bill you may be suprised

Speedie, in what way would he be surprised using citra vs galaxy? One would assume, expectedly, that the beer will take on the characteristics of citra.

Can you please elaborate.

 

[Daniel.lear]

For once i probably agree with you Speedie, Citra would be very tasty.

Please send 90g of Citra and i'll give it a go.

Leary

 

[BreathingHeat]

No offense, but 10 measly grams for the dry hop addition seems overly restrained. I'm enjoying a Bell's Hopslam inspired DIPA we brewed as we speak. We dry hopped with 2 ounces (~56 g) of Simcoe from days 7-14 and 3 ounces (~84 g) of Centennial from days 21-28. We also added an entire kg of table sugar at the end of the boil (didn't feel comfortable using honey...yet). This was for 6.5 gallon batch. You are making an imperial IPA after all. What yeast are you using?

Just picked up some Columbus, Amarillo, and Cascade flowers for an IPA we're brewing tomorrow. Can't wait.

I was going to brew a batch of my house tripple for the next batch but I'm enjoying my Galaxy PA batch a tad too much and thought why not go Imperial-;

Galaxy Imperium
Imperial IPA
Type: All Grain
Date: 24/08/09
Batch Size: 20.00 L
Boil Size: 22.89 L
Boil Time: 75 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
5.70 kg Pale Malt, Galaxy (Barrett Burston) (1.5 SRM) Grain 76.51 %
1.00 kg Munich, Light (Joe White) (9.0 SRM) Grain 13.42 %
0.50 kg Wheat Malt (Barrett Burston) (1.5 SRM) Grain 6.71 %
10.00 gm Galaxy [15.00 %] (Dry Hop 3 days) Hops -
25.00 gm Galaxy [15.00 %] (60 min) Hops 33.5 IBU
20.00 gm Galaxy [15.00 %] (30 min) Hops 20.6 IBU
15.00 gm Galaxy [15.00 %] (15 min) Hops 10.0 IBU
10.00 gm Galaxy [15.00 %] (5 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
0.25 kg Sugar, Table (Sucrose) (1.0 SRM) Sugar 3.36 %


Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.089 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.023 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 8.75 %
Bitterness: 64.0 IBU Calories: 90 cal/l
Est Color: 6.1 SRM

I was going to process the sugar using the GLS candi sugar method to a pale gold which should bump the SRMs to about 7. Any thoughts or glaring errors in the bill?

 

[Charst]

+1 for upping the dry hop but -1 for the table sugar.

if you already have the hops and that's all of them i'd cut 5 grams min off the 60 and 30 min editions and try to get min 20-25g dry hop.
with that high an AA% in galaxy you should be getting a nice strong hop aroma off that amount of hops.

I have an APA in secondary that's getting 30g of cascade added. it's a lower AA% hop but it's a smaller beer.