IPA Secondary Fermentation with Dry Hopped Cascade Hops

A video showing my "Frozen Sun IPA" fermenting, day 7. I brewed this on a very cold, very sunny day. It is fermenting in the secondary fermenter with 2oz of cascade hops. This is a three gallon batch with Wyeast American Ale II yeast, 1/2 lb victory malt, 1/2 lb crystal 40, 1/2 lb crystal 10, 1/2 lb carapils/dextrine malt and 6.5 lb two-row pale malt. I used six ounces of hops throughout the boil, for a total of 8oz.

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[saiyajingabe]

8 oz hops in a 3 gallon batch? Wow. IBUs must be in the 200+ range, right?

[MusicMyBlanket]

@saiyajingabe No, about 77 IBU 2 oz were dry hopped. 200 plus IBU would be pretty crazy though! I can pm you my recipe if you want... Cheers.

[backyardsounds]

cascade is nice. 

[FLefty18]

How do you have your hop bag rigged up? Do you have a string attatched to it, to get the hops out easier? I'm going to be using a Better Bottle for dry hopping also and need to know the best way to do it - I've heard people put sanitized marbles in the hop bag also. 

[rocknrollpriest]

Damn, looks so perfect! I bet it came out good!

[melvinvswaldo]

The music makes me want to take drugs but the beer makes me thirsty!

[saiyajingabe]

@MusicMyBlanket Interesting...what was the AAU for the 6 oz of hops you used? I'm assuming it was a full-boil, considering your grains. 6 oz, even if it were all cascades (4-6 AAUs), it sounds like it'd be at least over 100 IBUs. (thinking 2 oz @ 60, 2 oz @30, 2 oz @ 15/10/5.

Go ahead and PM me the recipe anyways because I'm intrigued and I'm growing my own cascades. Thanks!

[purplepanther25]

so very cool... you turned fermentation into a sci-fi clip! well done.

[jmaasl]

How bizarre,bizarre,bizarre!