Double IPA Fermenting

GPA, Graduation Pale Ale
Double IPA.
11 lb ultra light LME
1 lb Bavarian wheat DME
1 lb crystal 40L
2 oz Chinook
2 oz columbus
2 oz Cascade
5 gal boil
OG: 1.08
IBUs aprox. 125
Matty B's GPA 07'
"I wish my GPA was that strong.."

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• hops
• yeast
• beer
• home
• brew
• fermentation

[OPE08]

I never thought of a blow-out setup like that, what is the ID of the tubing there??

Is that thermo controlling the fridge, or is it just reading the temp??

[pirateale]

the ID, off the top of my head 5/8", i just took the body of my 3piece lock to the hardware and found a snug fit. this was a day of Macgyver move tho, use a carboy hood. and the temp control manufacturer is Rancho. it does regulate the temp. much better than an analog contr. has tons of apps. rated up to 220F so with a gas solenoid potentially you can control you boil temp (a project im working on).

[lucifurham]

So how did the grad. IPA turn out?? I just started a double IPA last week myself with 4 kg light liquid malt, 1 kg dry light malt, 300 g medium crystal malt, 200 g amber malt, 1 kg invert sugar, 1 kg brown sugar, 70 g northen brewer, 14 fuggles, 42 g goldings/28 g fuggles. It's been brewing like mad in the primary, going to transfer it into the secondary soon.

[pirateale]

uhhmm northen, fuggles & goldings sounds bomb. the GPA.. the only problem i had was brewing only 5gal batch. ended up cold cond in keg for three weeks, like drinking flowers. damn i wish i bottled a few i want one right now! im sure i would taste compl diff. good luck with that double, sounds tasty. try thrown some CO2 or Ni in your secondary before rack.. good trick

[pirateale]

if you are gonna ferment in a firdge you need temp. control. i typically ferment 66-68 F. cold conditioning (aprox 40 F) works great especially if you are gonna keg, but cold cond. is not a substitute for cond. at fermentation temp. ill post a video when this is ready to rack into the keg.

[lucifurham]

Sounds tasty. How did it turn out?? I just bottled a strong scotch ale that's around 8%.

[pirateale]

I just dry hopped and racked it into the secondary, smells great still showing some activity. Measured the gravity to be aprox 1.02 so im hopeing to gain another half percent. Ill give it another week and rack into a corny keg and cold condition for ummm couple weeks depending..

[JustinJTisdale]

How long typically does a double IPA like this ferment? Im in the middle of brewing one and its been roughly 4 days and in the last 12 hours its slowed down severely. It was going crazy now its down to a bubble every 15 seconds or so.

[lucifurham]

I don't keg at all at this point, I live in an apartment and do not have the room for that setup. I am hoping for good things with the double, I used the "1820 authentic IPA" partial mash kit from my brew shop and added extra northern, and the extra kg of dry malt and all the adjunct sugars. I have made the 1820 before and it's a killer brew. The nice thing about the shop that I use is that every 12th kit is a feebie.

[lucifurham]

Nice, I would love to have and old fridge so I could make proper pils and lagers, nothing I have made so far I have been able to cold condition. The scotch ale that I mentioned is going to be good, I tried a bottle last nite, it's alot like McEwan's at this point and once it ages for a month it's gonna be killer. I also used Heather tips at the boil for bittering.

[lucifurham]

Koo, are you doing everything by cold conditioning? I would love to have an old fridge so I could do some pils and lagers proper. I tried my scotch ale, and for being new, a week in the bottle, it's pretty tasty, kinda like McEwans. I used heather tips for the first time in that batch.