2015 Advent December 16 - Window Pain IPA

[ottiscan]

Grain bill is provided by Nash while I was searching for a recipe for fresh hops.

Window Pane IPA

10 Gallon Batch
25.87 lb Pale Malt 2 Row
1.45 lb Melanoiden Malt
1.36 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt 10L
1.26 lb Munich Malt
0.86 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine

60 Min Mash

60 Min Boil

3.25 oz Magnum Pellet 60 min
1.5 lbs Fresh Goldings 20-5 min
1.0 lbs Fresh Cascade 20-5 min
2.5 oz Cascade Pellet 5 min
2.5 oz Fuggle Pellet 5 min
2.5 oz Cascade dry hop
2.5 oz Fuggle dry hop

Safale US-05

[LiverDance]

Drinking this one now while looking at the recipe. I see it's fresh hopped beer? Were they wet hops? Seems like it could use a little more hop presence for an IPA. Either way it's a good beer and i'm enjoying drinking it. Great job

[Buccaneer]

I thought this one was quite good. Something funny going on with my taste buds lately, though - I'm detecting grapefruit character as spicy. I know it's grapefruit because my wife identifies it immediately.

[Highland Brewer]

Wife said its her favorite so far. Right up there for me too.

[ottiscan]

The fresh cascade and goldings hops were frozen whole in Sept., then taken out and crushed while frozen, and put into the kettle. I think this accounts for the amount of cloudiness in the beer.
Thanks.

[mumblecrunch]

Had this last night and enjoyed it. Didn't get any grassy flavors from the fresh hops, which is nice. I'm with Liverdance on the hop level, but it was still quite enjoyable as it was. Thanks!

[LiverDance]

The standard rule for wet hops is to use 5-6 times more hops that you would normally use at each addition. I was asking about it cause 2.50z in 10gal seemed low to me. I used 300g at each of three additions in my 6gal pale ale.

[ottiscan]

There is 2.5 pounds of fresh hops in the recipe, in addition to the pellet hop additions.
I used 6 times the dry pellet hop weight to determine the fresh hop addition. With fresh hops it's hit or miss on the alpha acid content though, regardless of weight.

[LiverDance]

There is 2.5 pounds of fresh hops in the recipe, in addition to the pellet hop additions.
I used 6 times the dry pellet hop weight to determine the fresh hop addition. With fresh hops it's hit or miss on the alpha acid content though, regardless of weight.

Gotcha! I wasn't reading the word pellet

[pet lion]

My bottle unfortunately tasted of Nova Scotia wild yeast. Had a bit of something floating on the top when I opened the flip top.

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[Lucas]

This beer went down nicely after a game of pickup hockey last night. I thought the hop presence was there. Perhaps the bitterness could go up a bit. I am not usually a fan of fresh hop beers but this one didn't have that prickly grassy flavour. I think it was a good idea to supplement the 5 minute addition with pellets.

[Woody]

This beer was tasty! The hop bitterness and flavour were low but I still enjoyed it.