beer November Brewdown - New England style IPA

grantmichaels said:
At a glance, and being unfamiliar with brewing that style - it looks like an ass-load of wheat and cinnamon, and half the pale malt ...
 
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Yanked it off of HBT forum. The Kolsch recipe was from the same user. Hopefully Wheebz will look at it.
Ozzy2001 said:
I'd just raise the flakes around 10%

50-40-10 is Wheebz's rec for Blue Moonish clone. I've done it a couple of times and it's good.

His is 10% flaked oats though.
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Interesting. The 50/40 is close to what I have. I rounded up on the pale malt and rounded down on the wheat.
 
wheebz said:
alright then
 
ozzy your brewing a spiced belgian, everyone can brew whatever, january we do RIS, which you can start as soon or as late as anyone wants
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What is going to be the POL for the 'everyone can brew whatever' beer and for the RIS?
 
I used the same POL as last time, since I brewed on Sunday, and there wasn't a response on what the POL was at that time. Also, WLP 400 takes a while to fully attenuate, based on my experience from the last time using it.




Three days of fermenting with a giant krausen.



Blew a ton of stuff from the blowoff tube into this jug. I've switched out the water twice already.

 
wheebz said:
drank Jbeers NE IPA last night
 
pretty baller
 
ide stick with that recipe minus 10% of the wheat and add your 2 row back in to it
 
cinnamon and orange are good
 
i used 8 ounces of cinnamon for 7bbls in our Cinnamon Toast Brunch beer, so you are good
 
 
 
 
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Nice work Jbeer! 
 
So, I think I'm out of this one. I didn't hit the bittering level I was aiming for and produced more of a hybrid beer somewhere between a west-coast and NE IPA, not highly bitter, but enough to be out of style for an NE.  It's way turbid though, so I hit on that aspect as I see everyone else did!  I think I'll take another stab at this with a half-batch and see if I can come off the bittering a bit and get that strong hop-forward taste on a sweeter malt profile.
 
In the meantime, I brewed a porter this week that I plan to bottle and gift out to friends for the Holidays. 6g's that I'll rack 3g's into toasted coconut and 3g's with a coffee addition.  Hopefully I'll hit on this one!
 
Also since wheebz has not responded yet to the POL, My 'whatever beer' for this month is my experimental attempt at a smoked rye pale ale and will be using the 10 cents again as my POL
 
 
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Well yesterday was one of my longest days in recent history as I brought my neighbors to the airport early morning having to be up at 3:40 and did not get to bed until close to 1 in the morning the following day (up for over 21 straight hours) because I had the bright idea of brewing not one but two beers yesterday.  Here is most of my brew day for this beer.  One of the challenges was it was a balmy 0 degrees outside and the coldest day I have ever brewed outside
 
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Mash Temp good
 
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Wort collected in kettle and heating up
 
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Wort beginning to boil
 
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Hot Break achieved
 
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First Hop Addition
 
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Second Hop Addition
 
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Third Hop Addition
 
 
When I got done brewing this batch, it was -2 degrees outside so I let it chill naturally in the freezing weather which it did nicely.  Also, in the chaotic cold, I forgot to take a picture of the OG again but it clocked in at 66
 
 
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In the fermenter ready to start.  It was going pretty good this morning when I checked it.  Brew on everyone!!
 
 
 
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