01: Spunk IPA
Spunk IPA (Batch #6, OG 1054, brewed 28/03/20:
Tried a different hop profile to tone down the bittering hops, worked as planned but will go back to the more punchy version for the next brew.
Other than that the method was the same as previous brews, and again unfined .
Ingredients:
5170g pale ale malt
330g carapils malt
Mash/sparge:
3.5gal water @ 75C, 90m
3gal @85C for 5.5g of wort, keeping 2" of head above grain bed and a slow trickle to the boiler.
Hops:
Cascade 25g, 30m
Columbus 25g, 30m
Cascade 25g, stand 15m
Columbus 25g, stand 15m
Cascade 50g dry hop 3d prior to bottling
Columbus 50g dry hop 3d prior to bottling
Unfined
Yeast: US SAFALE-05
FG 1012
ABV = (1054-1012)*0.129 = ~5.4% ABV
Bottled 25/04/20
Priming Sugar: 2.5 g granulated sugar per 500 ml (less than usual and seem to work very well)
Spunk IPA (Batch #5, OG 1054, brewed 01/03/19):
Tried a different hop profile, other than that the same as previous brews, oh and unfined as i no longer see the need. It seem to clear in the bottle after a few weeks anyway!
Again a cracking brew, may tone down the bittering hops for the next brew.
Ingredients:
5170g pale ale malt
330g carapils malt
Mash/sparge:
3.5gal water @ 75C, 90m
3gal @85C for 5.5g of wort, keeping 2" of head above grain bed and a slow trickle to the boiler.
Hops:
Cascade 50g, 1hr,
Cascade 25g, 30m,
Columbus 25g, end, 10m stand
Cascade 25g, end, 10m stand
Columbus 75g, 3d prior to bottling
Unfined
Yeast: US SAFALE-05
FG 1010,
ABV = (1054-1010)*0.129 = ~5.6% ABV
Bottled 15/03/19
Priming Sugar: 5g granulated sugar per 500 ml
Spunk IPA (Batch #4, OG 1054, brewed 02/06/18):
Tried a different hop profile, other than that the same as previous brews, oh and unfined.
Ingredients:
5170g pale ale malt
330g carapils malt
Hops:
Cascade 50g, 1hr,
Cascade 25g, 30m,
Columbus 25g, end, 10m stand
Cascade 25g, end, 10m stand
Columbus 75g, 3d prior to bottling
Irish moss 5g, 15m
Yeast: US SAFALE-05
FG 1008,
ABV = (1054-1008)*0.129 = ~5.9% ABV
Bottled 17/06/18 (40 x 500ml)
Sugar added to tweak ABC and to 6 US gall to ferment.
Spunk IPA (Batch #3, OG 1054, brewed 11/11/17):
A very fine brew!
Was my first whole grain brew and was an attempt to make a clone of the marvelous Brewdog Punk IPA.
I think it worked very well and only used two hop varieties!
This is the third batch, with minor tweaks from the previous brews and unfined, details of which are included below:
Spunk IPA: Batch#2, brewed 11/11/17
Ingredients:
4.7kg pale ale malt
300g carapils malt
Irish moss 5g, 15m
Hops:
Goldings 50g, 1hr,
Columbus 25g, 5m, then 10m stand
Golding 25g, 5m, then 10m stand
Dryhop Columbus 75g, 3d prior to bottling
Dryhop Golding 25g , 3d prior to bottling
Yeast: US (Safale US-05)
Notes:
Kit: stainless boiler, coolbox mashtun and plastic fermenter.
Mash: 3.5gall @75C (stir) then leave for 90m and drain to bucket.
Sparge: 85C and a jug slowly pour over grain (with perforated tin foil) to gather 5.5gall of wort.
Boil: 1hr to hop profile above, Irish moss to produce 4.5 gall of wort. Cooled: Cooling coil added at 15m to end of boil and cooled to 20C
OG: 1054 - Adjusted (down) with water
FG: 1004 (~6.5% ABV)
Finings: 26/08/17
Dryhop: 23/08/17 (and de-scummed)
Bottled: 27/08/17, tasted very good.
Condition: 1 week warm, then two weeks cool prior to drinking.
Priming: 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar!
Taste: Hits the mark, very tasty and just what i was after.
History:
Based on the recipe from 'Craft Beer'.
Batch #2: Was a name change in honour of Brewdog Punk IPA. (brewed 14/08/17). Similar to the current brew just boosted the grain bill a tad with 25g more dry hop (and less priming sugar) and 'better' kit.
Batch #1: was originally called 'Cradle IPA' brewed on the 21/06/17.
Current brew was just this tweaked for a few more grains and using better kit.
