All Day IPA

Who doesn't like a beer they can drink all day? This recipe is a Homebrewtalk.com work in progress to clone Founder's All Day IPA, a relatively low ABV pale ale with a great hop forward taste and aroma. I've wanted to brew this recipe for a while now but it's been hard to source Amarillo hops since there's apparently a nation wide shortage of this type. My local homebrew store was out and so were the online go-to's NorthernBrewer and MidwestBrewingSupply.

As fortune would have it today we decided to tour Three Stars Brewing company, a new brewery that opened last year in DC. It was a wonderful tour by one of the owners who was a really great guy from Cleveland (booo!). Before the tour began we browsed around their homebrew shop and what to my wondering eyes did appear but several ounces of Amarillo hops, all in a row. I snatched up 2 oz. after the tour along with the rest of the grist which they had on hand entirely. Despite the 4+ oz. of fairly expensive hops the whole recipe rang up to about $30 AND they helped me pick out bulk grains and crushed as I shopped. I was a fantastic experience and I would love to visit this brewery and their homebrew shop again soon. Great folks all around.

Brew Recipe

Brew Date: 8/10/2013
Style: India Pale Ale
Batch Volume: 5 gal.
Type: All Grain
Color: 5.8 SRM
Target Bitterness: 43 IBU
Target OG: 1.046
Estimated FG: 1.011

Grist
7 lb. American Two-Row
1 lb. Crystal 20L
12 oz. Flaked Oats
4 oz. Red Wheat

1/4 oz. Cascade 6.6% (60 min.)
1/2 oz. Amarillo 8.9% (20 min.)
1/2 oz. Cascade 6.6% (20 min.)
1/4 oz. Simcoe 14.1% (20 min.)

1/2 oz. Amarillo 8.9% (5 min.)
1/2 oz. Cascade 6.6% (5 min.)
1/2 oz. Simcoe 14.1% (5 min.)

1/2 oz. Amarillo 8.9% (dry hop)
1/2 oz. Crystal 3.8% (dry hop)
1/2 oz. Simcoe 14.1% (dry hop)

1 pkg. Safale US-05 Ale Yeast

Brew Notes

Mash Temp: 150 °F
Mash Time: 50 min.
Boil Time: 60 min.
Pre-Mash Volume: 5.5 gal.
Post-Boil Volume: 5 gal.
Measured OG: 1.048
Measured FG: 1.008
ABV: 5.3%
Calories: 157

Got a late start on this brew with dough in at 6:20pm to avoid the heat. Remembered it as 6:10 though so only mashed for 50 min. but that shouldn't matter. Tried sparging grains w/170 degree water over a collander but was more work than it was worth. It takes time for the grain to absorb the water and even more time to squeeze it back out again. Probably just top up with hot water instead to 5.5 gal. next time.

Update 8/17/13 - Dry hopped tonight with 1.5 oz. hop blend. Sprayed sanitizer on a hop bag, filled it up, and dropped it right in the fermentation bucket. The bag keeps floating to the top but hopefully will sink in after it absorbs some of the liquid. Gravity is 1.008. Tastes pretty good so far! Kind of a mellon and grapefruit combo kind of thing going on.

Update 8/23/13 - Too impatient to wait a single day longer I decided to bottle today and get these babies going. Used 4 oz. of priming sugar in the 4.5 gal of collected beer for bottling. Gravity remained 1.008. Squeezed the hop bag dry before removing to get every delicious drop. Dry hopping has added a strong and excellent aroma and just a little pucker around the edge of the tongue. Looking forward to that mellowing out just a bit as it bottle conditions. Got 44 bottles total.

The beer was very cloudy and looked a bit more like cider than beer. I wish now I had taken the time to rack to secondary and let it clear up a little bit but you have what you have. After racking the first gallon to the bottling bucket I rubber banded a hop bag around the siphon to keep unwanted hop material and trube out of the bottles. Worked pretty well but there's a lot of room left for clarifying in the bottle.

Also, the taste was fantastic. Definitely will be brewing this again. And I can say that two weeks in.