2020 Exchange - December 14 - Rockey's Great White IPA

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2020 Exchange - December 14 - Rockey's Great White IPA

Post by KMcK » Tue Nov 24, 2020 8:49 pm

Malt
wheat: 6.00 kg
pilsner: 4.50 kg
Vienna: 1.50 kg
melanoidin: 0.20 kg

Hops
Hammerhead Chinook (pellets) (60 minutes): 35 g
Hammerhead Cascade (pellets) (60 minutes): 26 g
Hammerhead Brewer's Gold (pellets) (60 minutes): 20 g
Hammerhead Magnum (pellets) (60 minutes): 12 g
Hammerhead Cascade (pellets) (15 minutes): 40 g
Hammerhead Brewer's Gold (pellets) (15 minutes): 58 g
Hammerhead Cascade (pellets) (5 minutes): 48 g
Hammerhead Brewer's Gold (pellets) (5 minutes): 145 g
Hammerhead Newport (pellets) (5 minutes): 70 g
Hammerhead Chinook (pellets) (dry hop): 40 g

Yeast
American Ale (Wyeast 1056) (liquid)

Water
Pockwock

Procedure
mash: 65° C, 90 minutes
boil: 60 minutes
fermentation: 20-22° C, 3 weeks

Specs
alcohol: 6.1 ABV
bitterness: 69 IBU
colour: 4.5 SRM

Dates
brewed: October 26, 2020
bottled: November 22, 2020
consumed: December 14, 2020?
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Re: 2020 Exchange - December 14 - Rockey's Great White IPA

Post by amartin » Wed Nov 25, 2020 12:22 am

Damn that’s a lot of brewers gold, I haven’t brewed with that in a long time. I’m looking forward to trying this one.


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Re: 2020 Exchange - December 14 - Rockey's Great White IPA

Post by KMcK » Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:44 am

amartin wrote:
Wed Nov 25, 2020 12:22 am
Damn that’s a lot of brewers gold, I haven’t brewed with that in a long time. I’m looking forward to trying this one.
It has bite.
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Re: 2020 Exchange - December 14 - Rockey's Great White IPA

Post by amartin » Mon Dec 14, 2020 11:10 pm

Well, you weren't kidding about the bite. I'm liking this though, it's bitter, dank, herbal and spicy. It's like the opposite of an NEIPA, which is works for me.

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Re: 2020 Exchange - December 14 - Rockey's Great White IPA

Post by KB1138 » Tue Dec 15, 2020 10:58 am

I'm not familiar with Brewers Gold, or Newport for that matter. This was interesting in aroma and taste. Spicy, pine, herbal and almost mint. Well made beer and definitely something new. Thanks for sharing
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Re: 2020 Exchange - December 14 - Rockey's Great White IPA

Post by PMackie » Tue Dec 15, 2020 5:06 pm

Yeah nothing wrong with this beer. Picking up on everything else everyone is touching on. Reminds me of living in Calgary 12 years ago when Craft beer was just picking up and this was the typical IPA. Super bitter but drinkable. Thanks!
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Re: 2020 Exchange - December 14 - Rockey's Great White IPA

Post by Taylor Vanbrewer » Thu Dec 17, 2020 6:48 pm

I was getting a really cool currant note on this one. Dig it.
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Re: 2020 Exchange - December 14 - Rockey's Great White IPA

Post by mumblecrunch » Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:45 pm

Quite the color on this one for a "white" IPA that's pretty much half wheat! I dig the higher bitterness and I agree with Taylor that there's a fun fruity thing going on in addition to the herbal angle. Nice beer.

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Re: 2020 Exchange - December 14 - Rockey's Great White IPA

Post by GCR » Fri Dec 18, 2020 9:49 am

That's a lot of wheat, and a lot of hops! And the result was great... bitter, spicy and dark with a pleasant bubbglegum flavour lurking in the depths as well.

And that label - *chef's kiss*Image

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Re: 2020 Exchange - December 14 - Rockey's Great White IPA

Post by GCR » Fri Dec 18, 2020 9:50 am

I mean to say dank, not dark, but it was considerably darker than I expected too so I guess that also works.

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Re: 2020 Exchange - December 14 - Rockey's Great White IPA

Post by KMcK » Mon Dec 21, 2020 5:18 am

It's definitely darker than it was going into the bottles. I've noticed this with other pale beers I've brewed. I suspect it's from the melanoidin so I'll have to dial that back in future versions.

I did dial back the bittering hops from a previous version of this recipe but they still seem to overpower the subtler berry and spice characteristics of the Brewer's Gold and Newport, which I wanted to showcase in this beer. I'll have to work on hop balance in future iterations. I hope that when the craft beer world gets over its current obsession with fruit-bombs we can explore the spice, berry, and herb characteristics of more traditional hops such as these.

I brewed half the batch on Wyeast 1056 and the other on Conan dregs from a can from the Alchemist. The Conan version didn't ferment nearly as quickly as the 1056 so it wasn't ready in time for the exchange. Anyone who wants to come over and sample the Conan version is welcome to.

Does anyone who was around in the 70s (Sandy?) know the movie poster the label is based on?
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Re: 2020 Exchange - December 14 - Rockey's Great White IPA

Post by Buccaneer » Thu Dec 24, 2020 2:58 am


KMcK wrote:Does anyone who was around in the 70s (Sandy?) know the movie poster the label is based on?
Jaws certainly seems like the obvious answer...

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