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My very first custom concoction
I wanna do a knock off of a high octane IPA but with more ingredients to make it more complex.
Grains:
1# Pale malt (crisp)
1/2# flaked corn
1/2# flaked rice
Extract:
5# extra light DME
1# Clover Honey
Hops:
Chinook (60 min)
Cascade (30 min)
Willamette (15 min)
Yeast:
Wyeast 1056 American Ale
I'll rack to secondary and add 4oz American Oak chips.
Oak chips in beer, eh? Sounds interesting.
-R
The Brits shipped beer to India to their troops in Oak barrels which had to impart some flavor just as in wines.
If you were going to mash the corn and rice I would use 2# of the 2-row.
You are going to mash the corn and rice right?
Yes I will mash all the grains. But 1/2# is the smallest amount I could order. I could easily only use 1/4# of the rice and corn. This will be my first attempts at anything original and the first with rice and corn so input is welcome.
Any other tips???? I have never tried anything using adjunct grains.
The ferment was violent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's in the secondary now on 4oz of oak chips and an ounce of Willemette hops.
Pulled a sample today and OMG it tastes like a citrus beer. No kidding. Tastes like grapefruit. What the hell??????
What do you want it to taste like, using the Cascades will give it that grapefruit zing.....personally that's what I want my IPA to taste like.....people will ask me "just what does it taste like" and I tell them the first impression will be that you just bit into a raw grapefruit....... My 60 Minute IPA clone is the prime example only it uses Palisade for flavoring and tons of other hops for aroma and bittering
I didn't say it was bad. Just unexpected. I didn't realize that Cascades would taste like that. Remember this is the fist beer I have made from scratch. Not a kit somebody else has developed. So I am learning new things every two minutes. I will let it chill in the secondary until next Sunday and bottle.
Still fermenting.....................................
What are you using for oak chips?
To give it that "barrel aged" flavor. Pulled another sample today and the citrus note is more developed. Even my beer hating wife take a whiff and says "grapefruit!!!!".
Finished my last bottle today. And I must say I am impressed. Certainly worth brewing again. This time with a starter and possibly w/o honey. The hops were just to strong to taste any honey.
If you boiled your honey and it was added with the rest of the wort in the primary you probably won't get a whole lot of flavor out of it. Honey ferments pretty dry, and it will increase your abv while minimizing body. Definitely not a bad thing for the style.
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