here is the lates entry in the log book for the yippee. Whatever you brew let me know how it turns out.
Batch Number: 1300
Beer Style: Yippee IPA
Brew Date: Dec. 9/10
Brewer: Andrew Powers
Recipe: Grain: (Muntons) Maris Otter pale Malt, Canadian Prairie 2 row, Crystal 110, Crystal 150, Crystal 240
Hops in boil: Cascade (pellets, A.A. 5.4%), Amarillo (pellets, A.A. 8.0%). Sorachi Ace(pellets, A.A. 10.7%)
Hops in hop perc: Cascade (leaf, A.A. 5.7%), Willamette (leaf, A.A. 5.6%)
Other: Irish moss, Yeast nutrient, gypsum, Ringwood yeast, and our well water. Water is treated with CaCl2 and phosphoric acid to adjust the pH to 4.79.
Mash in @ 8:20, strike temp @ 69 degrees. Mash temp @ 30 min was 64 degrees.
Begin sparge 30 minutes later at a temp of 78.5 degrees.
Copper up at 11:20 and boil at 11:25. Cascade in at start of boil, then Cascade and Amarillo additions every 5 minutes until the end of the boil, where we add a Sorachi Ace right before we turn off the burners. Irish moss added at 50 minutes. The wort is re-circulated constantly from the first setting of taps until 20 minutes after the burners are shut off.
Cascade/Willamette leaf-hop juice added to the hop perc before sparging.
Fridge started at 1:30. Finished at 3:25 Clean up begins.
This batch finished fermenting Dec. 12th, was racked on Dec 14th and filtered Dec. 15th. It was carbonated, Dec. 17, kegged between Dec. 17th and Dec. 21st, and bottled on Dec. 21st.
Delicious.
CHEEERS!