IPA

We successfully brewed an IPA today that I wrote the recipe for myself. For most of the beers that we had made, the actual color has been turning out much lighter than estimated by our brewing programs. So for this one, I purposefully tried to make it darker than a "traditional" IPA. Normal ranges for IPAs are about 7-10 SRM. This one was estimated to be about 11.6 SRM. Not much darker, but hopefully it turns out to be a nice deep amber color. We also had 3 hop addtions with a total of 4 ounces used. Chinook, Cascade, and Willamette were used during the boil, and after fermentation we are going to dry hop with 1 oz of Cascade as well. We have also intentionally tried to make a higher alcohol beer, and this one should be around 6.6% if everything goes well.

As for using the yeast starter, we pitched today at ~1pm, and as of 730pm, there is already some activity in the airlock. Usually it takes between 12-24hrs to start seeing activity, so the yeast starter has really taken off in the beer and should make for a full and well attenuated beer.



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