The Phuckented Spring IPA contest

Ted, Paul, Brad and myself are going to do a friendly contest. If you're interested in joining in on this, shit you can even use my gear and I'll help, email me! The more the better!

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The “Phuckented” IPA brewing contest.

Evaluation Day:  Saturday, April 9^th @ 2:00p (this is subject to change)

Location: TBD

All Grain Requirements for 5 gallon batch:

10lbs. American Two-row

1lb. Specialty malt of your choice

1lb. Pale Malt – Maris Otter

8oz.  specialty malt of your choice

8oz. of a crystal malt (Levibond: your choice)

Extract Requirements for 5 gallon batch:

EITHER

(6.875lbs dry malt extract – pale malt)

OR

(8.125lbs liquid malt extract – pale malt)

1lb. Specialty malt of your choice

1lb. Pale Malt – Maris Otter

8oz.  specialty malt of your choice

8oz. of a crystal malt (Levibond: your choice)

*you can round up or down for the amount of extract, we don’t really care, but if you can get close, that’s RAD like Crew Jones.

Must include:

9oz of Hops. (2oz of these are left for a 7 day dry-hop)

Recipe must include THREE different kinds of hops.

Example:

3oz Cascade, 4oz Centennial, 2oz Simcoe = 9oz

Or: 7oz Cascade, 1oz Warrior, 1oz E. Kent Goldings = 9oz

2oz of dry hop must be chosen at random – and put in the freezer for dry hopping later

1oz hop addition (2 cups) at 60 minutes. (pick two cups, add them and write down what they were)

1oz hop addition (2 cups) at 10 minutes. (pick two cups, add them and write down what they were)

All subsequent hop additions added from 6 minutes to 1 minute left in your boil.

American Ale yeast US-05 Ale yeast

            (Safle or Wyeast – your choice)

Bottle Conditioned or bottled from your keg.

Variables

Levibond of Crystal Malt

Your choice of which 3 hops you want to use.

Strike and sparge temps are your call (but you must record your target and actual temps)

Rules

(1)  No brewing software may be used to calculate anything other than strike water temps and volumes.

(2)  All hops are put into plastic keg cups in ½ oz increments.  No scales, only eyeballing the quantity in each cup.

(3)  The type of hop is written onto the bottom of every keg cup into which it is placed (you may want to do the labeling BEFORE dumping in the hops.

(4)  Hop cups are randomized on your counter/brewing table

(5)  After each hop addition, the brewer must record which hop was added and when.  After your 10 minute hop addition, you should have 10 cups left.  The brewer must roll a die ten times and record the roll.  The brewer must add one half-ounce of hops at every incremental time left in the boil specified by the dice.

The number rolled on the dice specified the minutes left in the boil you add a half-ounce cup.

For instance, if your dice looked the picture below, the hop additions would be:

1 cup with 6 minutes left in the boil (1 six was rolled)

3 cups with 5 minutes left in the boil (3 fives rolled)

2 cups with 4 minutes left in the boil (2 fours were rolled)

1 cup with 3 minutes left in the boil (1 three rolled)

2 cups with 2 minutes left in the boil (2 twos rolled)

1 cup with 1 minute left in the boil (1 one rolled)

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So with that said, I'm a little bummed about a few thing, but it will make it fun. 1. No brewing software. As some of you know I use beersmith to help me design my beers. It doesn't do the work for me, but it does do some of the math. 2. I just got a scale from my father-in-law. I was really looking forward to using it on this, guess I won't be.


Now on the other hand I just bought a refractometer which should be getting here soon. E-bay Hong Kong special baby!! At least I can use that and feel cool, though I'm sure the wife will make fun of me as I'm looking though it.


-Ryan