Trying a wet-hop IPA with our hop harvest for this year, since we have enough hops this year to make a ridiculously hoppy beer. We're calling it Pliny the Agronomist.

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Ingredients

  • 11.00 lb. Pale Malt (2 Row) US
  • 10 oz. English Dark Crystal malt.
  • 10 oz. Dingesmans Caramunich 45
  • 4 oz. Arcadian hops (9.8% A.A.) at 170℉.
  • 8 oz. Arcadian hops (9.8% A.A.) at 90 min.
  • 2 oz. Arcadian hops (9.8% A.A.) at 60 min.
  • 4 oz. Cascade hops (6.0% A.A.) at 60 min.
  • 4 oz. Cascade hops (6.0% A.A.) at 30 min.
  • 3.5 oz. Cascade hops (6.0% A.A.) at 15 min.
  • 7.6 oz. Arcadian hops (9.8% A.A.) at 15 min.
  • 3.1 oz. Old Mission hops (4.33% A.A.) at 5 min.
  • 8 oz. Teamaker hops (1.2% A.A.) at 5 min.
  • 2 pouches (11.5g each) Safale S-05 dried yeast, rehydrated in 1½ c. tap water at 95℉.
  • 3 tsp. gymsum powder.
  • 1 Campden tablet, crushed.
  • Priming sugar, added 3 November 2023:
    • ¾ cup mixed white and brown sugar.

(All hops listed above are whole cones, undried.)

Procedure

Treated ten gallons of tap water with gypsum and a Campden tablet, then allowed it to sit for twenty minutes before dacanting off of the resulting mineral salts at the bottom.

Heated ~7.5 gallons of dechlorinated water to 177℉ in the electric boil kettle, then poured it over the mash bag and grains, bringing the mash temperature to 155℉. Moved the pot out of the way, covered it with a lid, and wrapped the pot in a sleeping bag. Mashed for 90:00, during which time the mash temperature fell to 144℉! Yeesh. Moved the wort to the electric boil kettle.

Started heating the wort, adding the first four ounces of hops at 170℉ instead of at the beginning of the boil. Boiled for 90 minutes, not starting the count until a full boil had been reached and the hot break had occurred. Added new hops at 90, 60, 30, 15, and 5 minutes, sanitizing the immersion chiller by inserting it during the last fifteen minutes of the boil. Moved the wort from the large brew pot into a bucket, filtering it through the large sieve to catch hop trub. Agitated by stirring with the large brewing spoon.

Pitched rehydrated Safale S-05, then covered and popped in an airlock.

Brew day: 8 September 2023
Predicted original gravity: 1.0618
Measured original gravity: 1.063
Estimated IBUs: 730.1 (!!!)
Predicted final gravity 1.0155
Predicted ABV: 6.3
Bottling day : 3 November 2023
Final gravity: 1.006
Estimated ABV: 7.35%

Yield:

  • 9 x 22 oz. beer bottles
  • 7 x 500mL beer bottles
  • 25 x 12 oz. beer bottles
  • 1 x 12 oz. hydrometer tube

Total yield: approx. 628 fl. oz., or 4.9 gal.

Observations

  • 2023-11-03: Bottled, using yellow bottle caps, yielding approx. 4.9 gal. of beer.