American India Pale Ale (1401)

A recently brewed an American India Pale Ale over the Christmas break.

Beer Information

Roughly 8G of wort on the stove

I’m a big fan of American IPAs, and it’s usually what I drink when I’m lounging around home and I feel the need for a beer. Here are the target stats for this brew:

• BJCP Style: India Pale Ale – American IPA
• OG: 1.064
• FG: 1.010
• IBU: 65
• ABV: 6.5%
• Color: 8
• Batch Size: 5G
• Boil Duration: 60 mins
• Mash Temperature: 151F
• Brew Date: December 24th, 2013

Grain Bill

• 13lb 10oz – Canadian Pale Ale Malt
• 10oz – Caramel 40L
• 6oz – Caramel 15L
• 6oz – Wheat Malt

Hop Bill/Schedule

• 1oz Simcoe – First wort hopped
• 0.3oz Centennial – @ 30 mins
• 0.8oz Citra – @ 15mins
• 1oz Chinook – @ 10mins
• 1oz Amarillo – @ 10mins
• 1oz Amarillo – Dry-hop
• 1oz Columbus – Dry-hop

Water Treatment

I recently checked out my town’s (Chilliwack’s) water report and have been experimenting with brew-salt additions. Based on my water and a target profile of a hop-forward beer, these were the additions I made.

• 7g Gypsum
• 1g Salt

Fermentation

• Yeast: Wyeast 1056
• Temperature: 68F
• Duration: 2 Weeks
• Dry-hopping: 2oz, as listed above

Notes

I haven’t tasted this one yet, as it’s still in the fermenter at home (6 weeks basically). I’ll dry-hop it when I get back, cold-crash it, and then keg it. I’ll have my first pint in a few weeks and update this post.