Heroes IPA

Rob’s brew posted by Tom

Grain Bill-

• 15 lbs Golden Promise
• 10 lbs 2 Row
• 2 lbs White Wheat
• 1 lbs Caramel Crystal 60
• 1 lbs Flaked Rice
• 1 lbs Flaked Oats

Hops…Glorious Hops!

• 4oz Simcoe
• 6oz Citra
• 6oz Mosaic
• 2oz Amarillo

Yeast- American Ale Wyeast 1056

Adjuncts 

• 2oz Tangerine peel
• 2oz Grapefruit peel
• 2 Whirlfloc tablets
• 3 tsp Yeast Nutrient

Projected Stats by Brewtoad (Check Brew Toad link here)

• OG 1.069 ( I measured the OG at 1.071)
• FG 1.017
• IBU 65
• SRM 7
• ABV 6.8

Brew Day- January 18, 2016

Batch Sparge

Strike temp of 170 with 11 gallons of water. Held mash for 60 minutes and hit projected mash temp of 155. Vorlauf for 5 minutes wort cleared up quickly ran off a 6 gallons of wort. Added 8 gallons of 170 degree Sparge water. Vorlauf and ran off another 7 gallons for combined total of 13 gallons of wort.

• 60 minute boil
• 2oz of Simcoe at boil
• 2oz of Citra at 15 minutes
• 4 oz of Mosaic at 5 minutes
• 2 oz of Citra at 5 minutes
• 2 Moss tablets at 15 minutes
• Added Chiller at 15 minutes
• 3 tsp yeast nutrient at 10 minutes
• 2oz of Tangerine peel at 10 minutes
• 2 oz of Grapefruit peel at 10 minutes
• 2oz of Amarillo at 0 minutes
• 2oz of Mosaic at 0 minutes

After boil notes 

The chiller and the cold weather took the temp down to 70 in about 40 minutes.  At this point had about 11.5 gallons. I managed to get about 10 gallons in the fermenter with the hops soaking up the rest. Pitched yeast and started cleanup. All in all a decent brew day. Had to contend with the cold and a frozen water line along the way. The fermenter is chugging along just fine now. I will dry hop this with 2oz each of Citra and Mosaic after I transfer to secondary.  The sample tasted quite bitter and somewhat unbalanced but in a good way.