#22 BrewDog Hardcore IPA
| Brewed: | Sep 2013 |
| Style: | IPA |
| ABV: | 10.2% |
| Original Gravity: | 1.092 |
| Final Gravity: | 1.015 |
| Bitterness: | 128 IBUs |
| IBU/OG: | 1.400 |
| Batch Size: | 19 ltr |
| Method: | Batch Sparge |
| Mash Temp: | 64°C |
| Mash Volume: | 24.2 ltr |
| Sparge Volume: | 13.8 ltr |
| Mash Time: | 75 min |
| Boil Time: | 90 min |
| 8.0kg | Pale Malt (Gladfields) | |
| 250g | Gladfield Medium Crystal Malt | |
| 250g | Gladfield Light Crystal Malt | |
| 50g | Chinook 11.1% | Boil 90 min |
| 40g | Warrior 15.6% | Boil 90 min |
| 40g | Falconers Flight 11.4% | Boil 0 min |
| 60g | Falconers Flight 11.4% | Dry Hop 7 Days |
| 20g | Chinook 11.1% | Dry Hop 7 Days |
| 20g | Warrior 15.6% | Dry Hop 7 Days |
| Safale US-05 Dry Ale Yeast | ||
| 105g Dextrose | ||
Wow, I had a Hardcore IPA on tap at Pomery’s and fell in love straight away. Brilliant. When looking to do a clone I found they had made their own “clone” recipe (here) which uses just one malt which was a little disappointing because I was wanting to try out the Gladfield range and using just one was a little boring. I found this version so I thought I would adapt the two and adjust to the Hops I could find and the malts that sounded about right.
Oh, I will note that I did a “brew” between this and the Death by Malt brew – the 8 Wired Hopwired fresh wort pack. 8wired did the brew, I just did the fermenting. I added in Citra hops additionally to the dry hops supplied and man it was brilliant! The Citra was a little too much, so either a smaller volume or a hop with less of that flavour would be better.
Notes
It was a good brew day – only issue was too much water. I will adjust the mash tun loss to 0 ltr as I had nearly 4 ltrs more expected for the pre boil. Boiled a bit harder than normal to increase the boil off. Numbers ok given the extra liquid.
I was meant to dry hopped just 7 days but was busy so had to push out the bottling date a week – so I temperature crashed it for a week, and so the dry hoping was 14 days.
12/10 – Bottling finally and boy did it taste great. And I tested my refractometer – the beer at 3-4deg was 1.012 with the hydrometer and 1.040 with the refractometer. If it was at 10deg I would adjust the hydrometer to 1.010 which is a great reading. At the start of the fermentation these two measured very close together, but clearly my refractometer is very temperature sensitive. Disappointing since you can use it with such a small sample volume.
Tasting Notes
I really enjoyed this beer – it took me a little convincing at first as the alcohol taste was stronger than I wanted – and there was a little something else up with the flavour that I could not describe, so not perfect but fine otherwise. Falconers Flight I would use again – not a bad mix and would be interesting to do as the only hop (given it is a blend, it would not be a single hopped beer).