And the brewing binge continues. I cashed my last bottles of The Scholar IPA at our early Halloween this party, so I will be needing another batch of IPA for our Thanksgiving celebrations. I had taken down the recipe for Kona Brewing's The Pacifier out of a BYO magazine from earlier this year. The recipe caught my eye as being very high on the citrus/fruity element with its focus on Galaxy and Citra hops. I always have a pound of Citra laying around and I've started to experiement more with Galaxy, so I felt that this recipe would be a nice fit for the holidays.
In addition, this is the first recipe that I'll be using my new Danby 4.4cuft mini fridge as a fermentation chamber. I've always made nice IPAs, but I've gotten dinged in competitions for some flavors that have been contributed from a slightly higher than optimal fermentation temperature. But I will get dinged no longer. I've plugged the fridge into my Ranco dual-stage temperature controller and set it for 65f with a 2 degree differential.
The brew day went along normally with a somewhat higher than expected mash efficiency. I still don't have a grain mill, so I'll be suffering inconsistent mash efficiencies for the time being. Fermentation began pretty quickly with a 1000ml starter of WLP090, Super San Diego yeast. I will be attempting to cold crash this beer as well (my virgin cold crash), so I'll update with the details on that.
The Nanny (Kona Pacifier IPA Clone)
5.5gal batch -- 90 minute boil
Est OG: 1.064
Est FG: 1.009
Est ABV: 7.25%
IBU: 64
SRM: 6
9.0lb Pilsner Malt
5.0lb Pale Malt
0.5lb Carapils
0.3lb Caramel 60L
0.50oz Magnum @ WH (23 IBU)
0.75oz Galaxy @ 30 min (25 IBU)
1.25oz Galaxy @ Steep 10 min (10 IBU)
1.00oz Citra @ Steep 10 min (7 IBU)
2.00oz Galaxy @ Dry Hop 4 Days
2.00oz Citra @ Dry Hop 4 Days
1000ml starter WLP090 Super San Diego
Mash @ 148f for 60 minutes. Ferment 21 days @ 65f.
10/15/2014 -- Brewed by myself. Higher than expected mash efficiency was offset with water added to the kettle. Gathered 5.5gal of 1.063 wort. Fermentation began by the time I came down to check on it in the morning.
11/2/2014 -- Dry hopped.
11/4/2014 -- Cold crashed.
11/6/2014 -- Bottled to 2.4 vol. Finished out at 1.010. Samples at bottling were really fantastic.
Monday, October 20, 2014
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