#60: IPA (5 gallon - partial mash)

First brew day with friends yesterday.  "Big Brew" a week or so late.  They wanted to do an IPA, and we wanted to shoot for less than four hours, so a partial mash on the new equipment seemed in order.  Cut some corners by hop-bursting the bitter and also by partial mashing and thus adding cold water at the end to get to volume.  Wrapped up in about 2.5 hours.  Super-efficient brew day considering two of the three people had never brewed before.  Did some grilling early and ordered pizza late, and also consumed a lot of beer.  Good times... 

Another side note...  Used some of the Summit I ordered from Willamette Valley Hops.  Funny thing is that every time I order from them, I end up with twice as much as I ordered.  I had spec'd a 55IBU, with a 1.5oz addition of the Summit, but they wanted to go more bitter, so we went 2.0oz for a 100+ IBU.  These hops have been in the freezer for a while, so likely I won't get that much out of them (though they still smelled great)...  Probably gonna get something in the 80ish range, but no real way to judge that.

Missed the OG by a touch.  I found when I was cleaning the equipment that there was some of the LME coating the bottom of the pot.  I guess we didn't stir well enough.  RDWHAHB...  Still should be mighty tasty.

Also, got my lagering fridge working again (at least temporarily).  So I guess I didn't need to trade my lager yeast in after all...

IPA (partial mash)

American IPA

Type: Partial Mash	Date: 1/6/2012
Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Boil Size: 3.00 gal
Boil Time: 60 min	Equipment: Brew Pot (7.5 gal)
Ingredients
Amount Item Type % or IBU 1.50 lb Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 17.14 % 3.00 lb Pale Liquid Extract [Boil for 5 min] Extract 34.29 % 4.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 45.71 % 0.25 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 2.86 % 0.60 oz Amarillo (Leaf) [8.70 %] (Dry Hop 3 days) Hops - 2.00 oz Summit [17.00 %] (35 min) Hops 67.1 IBU 1.00 oz Amarillo [6.90 %] (20 min) Hops 9.9 IBU 1.00 oz Amarillo [6.90 %] (5 min) Hops 3.3 IBU 8.00 oz Malto-Dextrine (Boil 5.0 min) Misc 1 Pkgs Safale American (DCL Yeast #US-05) Yeast-Ale
Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.055 SG	Measured Original Gravity: 1.049 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.015 SG	Measured Final Gravity: 1.012 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.20 %	Actual Alcohol by Vol: 4.82 %
Bitterness: 108.3 IBU	Calories: 217 cal/pint
Est Color: 8.1 SRM EDIT:  Bloop...  bloop...