Like most(?) DIPA’s I’m including a pound of cane sugar to dry it out a bit…although its a fermentable, it would not be included in the mash water calculation because its added at FO… SO 13 pounds of fermentables but 12 pounds for the Grain bill.
Now for the trub loss estimate, I always aim a bit low(.33 gallons), but with 10.5 ounces of hops, including 5.5 ounces going into the fermentor prior to dry hopping I wonder if I should bump up the trub loss estimate to make sure I have enough free wort?? .5 gallons? more?
In the past I would calculate about 6 gallons to the fermenter knowing I would only end up with 5.5 after I’d adjust the OG with water or dme to get what I calculated. Now I just wing it.
Never brewed that one…I just dove into various threads on the web that were trying to unlock the mysteries of NEIPAs back in 2015 and never did a kit…I made 4 different versions all told. Probably will do another down the road, but man I like a good West Coast IPA better.
I’ve brewed the Plinian Legacy seven times so far, but if my DIPA I’m brewing tomorrow is as good as I hope, I might be totally done with kits. NBs Pliny is very good.
I give my various recipes some type of cheesy pop culture or rock music themed name, so this west coast DIPA is dubbed “To Sur with love”(every summer until recently we would vacation in Cali at Carmel Highlands just north of Big Sur, sooo awesome…).
Went with 11 lbs 2 row, .5 lb caramunich, .5 Crisp C45 L. 1 lb Cane sugar
Wyeast 1450 ( SNSYS ).
Hops: 115 IBU : Chinook FWH, Magnum bittering, then Chinook, Amarillo, Centennial, and Simcoe, hop bursting with aroma, flavor, flameout and whirlpool. Two stage Dry hop planned.
The good: nice brew day, hydrometer sample tasted great. With James Bond starter, air lock bubbling within a few hours
The bad: as I anticipated, have to dial in the water amounts. The 30 minute whirlpool went a little long and I had some temp issues with it. As a result of this and all the hop trub I was a bit short on wort into the fermenter. 4.75 gallons…no big deal, I’m kegging this. I’ll hopefully brew this again fairly soon and took a ton of notes so I’ll up the water a bit.
Drinking this DIPA now, and it’s nice. Couldn’t do a closed transfer to keg as my glass 6.5 carboy was occupied ( haven’t figured out a workable hack for a plastic BMB) but no oxidation noticed thus far. My wife likes it and she’s brutally honest when it comes to my home brew😳
My last DIPA has started to lose it’s luster from what I assume is hop oxidation. It went from blood-amber to amber-brown in color. It still taste pretty good but not as it did 4 weeks ago.
We also brew a DIPA we call Big Mo since it’s single hopped with Mosaic. Have a keg that’s been on for a couple of weeks now and it’s got great hop aroma and big flavor. Lots of backbone but this time it’s bordering on boozy which I guess should be expected with a calculated ABV around 9%. Here’s the recipe we use:
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