Ferocious IPA

This recipe started out as a clone of Surly's Furious IPA, but I couldn't find any Golden Promise or the correct alpha acid hops to go with the clone recipe. SO I changed out the GP for some pale ale malt and changed up the hop schedule a bit to try and balance everything out. Here is the recipe.

Ferocious IPA

Malts:

10.5 lbs: Weyermann Pale Ale

1.5 lbs: Belgian Caramunich

3/4 lb: American Crystal 60

Hops:

.75 oz: Warrior 15.2aa 60 minutes

.50 oz: Magnium 12.4aa 60min

.25 oz: Simcoe 11.9aa 20 min

.25 oz: Amarillo 8.0aa 20 min

.25 oz: Simcoe 11.9aa 15 min

.25 oz: Amarillo 8.0aa 15 min

.25 oz: Simcoe 11.9aa 10 min

.25 oz: Amarillo 8.0aa 10 min

.25 oz: Simcoe 11.9aa 5 min

.25 oz: Amarillo 8.0aa 5 min

.25 oz: Simcoe 11.9aa KO

.25 oz: Amarillo 8.0aa KO

1.0 oz: Amarillo 8.0aa Dry Hop

2.0 oz: Simcoe 8.0aa Dry Hop

Yeast:

Safale S-04 English Ale

Target OG: 1.060

Target FG: 1.015

IBU: ~66

Target ABV: 6.0

Mash Temp: 154

Mash Volume: 4.03 gals

Sparge Temp: 170 (195)

Sparge Volume: 2.94 gals

Actual OG: 1.070

Actual FG: 1.008

Actual ABV: 8.5%

Apparent Attenuation: 88%

Hopville Recipe

Update 5.30.2009: I don't know what is happening but the past two beers I have done I have overshot my target OG by .010. I reached 1.070 today and was looking for 1.060. Oh well I the only problem I have with that is that the IBU in this beer will be a bit lower than expected. I pitched the yeast and hopefully this will get started quickly.

Update 6.6.2009: I think fermentation is over and I added in the 2oz of Simcoe and 1oz of Amarillo for Dry Hopping. The gravity read 1.009 which is waaaaaay too dry. So the yeast over attenuated the beer a bit. We will see how it turns out when I bottle in a week.

Update 6.27.2009: After a few weeks of "lagering" this beer is really great. Ill try to bottle this soon, if and when I stop being lazy :)

Update 6.29.2009: Bottled tonight. We will see what happens after a week or so. Without carbonation this beer tastes wonderful. Best IPA I have done yet I think. Lets hope it finishes well.

Update 8.14.2009: This is the the best IPA I think I have done yet. Though a bit dark for BJCP, it has a nice malty backbone with a ton of hop taste and aroma. In the early stages of this beer it had a typical butterscotch smell but I think that was due to using too much Simcoe which I will never do again. Overall a great beer that I will do again.