God Gives Us the Victory IPA Brew Session

Brew Session Info

11/11/2018
(Include any important notes from brew day until tasting)

First runnings are 1.042. My efficiency ended up being lower than normal due to the crush of the oat malt, I suspect, so I added 12oz of DME to bump the points. My mash tun jacket worked very well, holding the temp much more consistently than it would have otherwise. The whirlpool temp settled out at 167F, so I set the 15 minute timer before starting to chill again. I added 20 minutes to the boil also, in order to get the final volume down a bit to increase points. Pitched one packet of Imperial yeast, Loki. Stall is about 10 hours to get slow, consistent bubbling. 11/12 - Regular bubbling but not forceful. Added 2oz of Bravo hops since I've read that Kveik yeasts finish quickly and I want to explore the possibility of biotransformation with this strain. 11/15 - I couldn't help myself and I took a sample. Lots of sulfur present but already dried out to 1.010, so nearly at terminal. It is extremely hazy and tastes mostly of grain, no hops. This might be a candidate for dumping but I'll hold the course and see what happens after the dry hopping. I put the heat wrap on this to try to finish the beer out and drive off the sulfur and it is bubbling regularly again, though not as much as during high krausen. 11/21 - Threw in the dry hops today and I added Mandarina Bavaria for the hell of it as I have it sitting around and I figured it would add some additional orange flavor with the Triumph. I will look to bottle this one on 11/25 or so. 11/25 - Bottled, pulled 1.007 on the pycnometer. Sample is very hoppy in aroma, fruity, and taste is somewhat vegetal. I think that this will mellow out to be a great beer. Thankfully the sulfur that I picked up earlier in the fermentation was blown off, presumably by the heat wrap; I took the temp a couple of times following the heat wrap and noticed that the wall of the fermentor was at 90F. How's that for the heat? The Loki yeast is almost like clay at the body of the fermentor, very sludgy. 11/30 - cracked a bottle and the hop flavor is very dense and the beer is incredibly hazy. It is carbed up enough but the flavor is a bit raw so it needs to age for a week or so.

Water Infusion

Brew Session Specific

8.5 lb kg
65 °FC
152 °FC
2 qt/lbl/kg
30 min.
6 gals liters

Equipment Profile

0.15 gals/lb liters/kg
0.01 gals/lb liters/kg
°FC
0.25 gals liters
0.5 gals liters
1 gals/hour liters/hour
0.2 gals liters

Calculated Totals

8.56 gals liters
4.93 gals liters
4.50 gals liters
160.22 °FC
160.22 °FC
3.23 gals liters
4.06 gals liters
7.20 gals liters

Mash / Boil

Mash

5.3 PH
152 °FC
152 °FC
60 minutes

Boil

1.030 1.035 (estimated)
7.5 gallons liters 7.20 (gallonsliters estimated)
50 minutes minutes (30 minutes estimated)
6.5 gals liters

Gravity Estimates

Based on boiling 7.50 gallonsliters at 1.030 for 50 minutes, this will decrease your wort by 0.83 gallonsliters, bringing your after boil OG to 1.033.

You wanted an OG of 1.040. It looks like it will be under.

Fermentation

6.5 gallons liters 6.00 (gallonsliters estimated)
1.040 (1.040 predicted)
1.007 (1.007 predicted)

Conditioning

11/26/2018
10
Dextrose
5 oz g

Tasting Notes (1)

CheeseNips

Tasted on 12/4/2018 by CheeseNips

Notes:

Pours yellow and very hazy with minimal head that sticks around. Aroma is sweet orange peel, sweet and then a resinous edge like orange oil. Flavor follows aroma at first and then morphs into a hop resin dominated flavor with lots of citrus that is, presumably, a mix of hops and then yeast ester; I would describe the citrus flavor as a mix of navel orange and pineapple, but it's not especially strong. The body is medium and there is a definite nucleation sharpness. I really like this IPA as the bitterness is subdued but not entirely gone, the citrus flavor is very complex, and the overall impression is excellent. That being said, the softness of the hazy style isn't quite there and the carbonation is, perhaps a little light. I am trying a different SO4:Cl ration on my next iteration and I will be sure to prime appropriately. 4 stars as this is a great beer but not fault free.

Recipe Facts

God Gives Us the Victory IPA
American IPA
  • 6.00 Gallons Liters Batch Size
  • 6.50 Gallons Liters Boil Size
  • 30  min Boil Time
  • 1.040 OG
  • 1.007 FG
  • 0.5 IBU (tinseth) Bitterness
  • 0.01 BG:GU
  • 3.2° SRM Color
  • 68% Efficiency
  • 4.3% ABV Alcohol
  • 129 per 12oz Calories
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