BlackIPAat32c3

We served a Black IPA at 32c3. This is the recipe

The recipe roughly follows the Widmer Brothers W10 extract clone suggested by BYO magazine.

1.75 kg light LME 300g Caramalt 10L 170g Carafa 2 140g Caramalt 50L

Steep Caramalt in 3l of water, then add LME and top up to 9.5l water. Cook with the following hop schedule

38g Newport 12,6 AA @35 14g Newport 12,6 AA @2 4g DE Cascade 8,5 AA @2

Ferment with a neutral ale yeast for a week.

Then dry hop for two weeks with

4g Newport 12.6 AA 7g German Cascade 8,5 AA

Should result in around 7-8l beer with an ABV of 7-8%vol. Pitch black.

Notes: the hop schedule is completely borken, but resulted in an ok beer for a black ipa. I don't like Newport on its own, but in combination with the cascade it's rather nice. Since I forget to reduce the bittering hops (original recipe calls for 20l beer, initial hop addition here) I shortened the boil time (which is reasonable when brewing extract) and the result was ok.

Well ok. Actually I received a lot of compliments for the beer and several people wanted to get some bottles from me. I rather liked it.