brew day: ipa

I had a very tasty IPA on draft a few days ago and it inspired me to brew one. Not following any particular recipe, I brewed what seems to be a pretty basic IPA. The recipe I put together is a partial mash:

• 6lbs Briess Light DME
• 1lb Victory malt crushed
• 1lb Crystal malt 40L crushed
• .5oz Chinook - 60 minutes
• .75oz Cascade - 40 minutes
• .75oz Cascade - 20 minutes
• .5oz Cascade 5 minutes
• 1/2 tsp Irish Moss last 15 minutes

During the last 15 minutes of the boil, I added a half a teaspoon of Irish Moss for clarity. During the last 5 minutes, I tossed in the final dosage of hops and boiled away.

The next step was to chill the wort down to yeast pitching temperature. After the wort was cooled, I transferred to the primary. Here you can see the color, a nice amber finish:

Promash calculated the SG to be 1.065. I did the gravity test to see where I was and at the time it read 1.062. I checked this morning and it's sitting at 1.064. Cool.

I pitched the yeast and sealed the fermenter. I'll leave it in the primary for about a week. After that, I'll transfer to the secondary and dry hop with one ounce of Hallertau hop leaves. I'll have more photos on my flickr page later this week.