#26 Citra IIPA
| Brewed: | Jul 2014 |
| Style: | IPA |
| ABV: | 8.9% |
| Original Gravity: | 1.081 |
| Final Gravity: | 1.013 |
| Bitterness: | 99 IBUs |
| IBU/OG: | 1.224 |
| Batch Size: | 19 ltr |
| Method: | Batch Sparge |
| Mash Temp: | 64.4°C |
| Mash Volume: | 21.6 ltr |
| Sparge Volume: | 13.9 ltr |
| Mash Time: | 75 min |
| Boil Time: | 90 min |
| 6.8kg | Gladfield Ale Malt | |
| 500g | Gladfield Light Crystal Malt | |
| 500g | Gladfield Munich Malt | |
| 100g | Acidulated Malt | |
| 30g | Citra 13.5% | Boil 60 min |
| 35g | Citra 13.5% | Boil 25 min |
| 35g | Citra 13.5% | Boil 10 min |
| 35g | Citra 13.5% | Boil 5 min |
| 45g | Citra 13.5% | Boil 0 min |
| 60g | Citra 13.5% | Dry Hop 3 Days |
| 60g | Citra 13.5% | Dry Hop 2 Days |
| Safale US-05 Dry Ale Yeast | ||
| 105g Dextrose | ||
I just had to do another Citra IPA. The last one was started from someone’s clone of Epic’s pale ale but I swapped out the hops for all Citra hops. This time I made a basic base, chose 300 grams as the hop bill, and went from there.
Notes
6/7 Brew went well – need to adjust my losses to get closer to design numbers. It tasted very nice.
Tasting Notes
Unfortunately the priming solution cannot have mixed well (the crash chill before bottling cleared the beer up nicely, but probably was the cause of the mix not mixing). I had noticed a pool of clear liquid at the bottom of the bottling bucket so knew I was going to have problems. We started drinking the last bottles filled first and early before they over carbonated. The others had almost no carbonation. Still tasted good and worth repeating.