After a morning of cleaning the chimneys and the gutters, I dove into making an IPA for Claire. Since it has been a pretty busy summer at the shop, I hadn’t made beer for quite a while. A good customer of ours at the shop brought me some Cascade hops he had grown himself. After drying them, I ended up with 8 ounces. I used it all. Using fresh hops is always a little bit of a chore since you end up with “volleyball” size bags of hops floating around in your beer.

Beer # 61
Date Oct 14, 2014

Description A good old fashioned IPA using the Cascade hops from Craig.

Yeast White Labs #001 California Ale (with yeast starter)

Grain Bill Quantity Grain
28 lbs Northwest 2-row
1 lbs Caramel malt (20L)
1 lbs Carapils
1 lbs Corn sugar

Hop Schedule Quantity Hop Schedule
2 oz Magnum Mashout
2 oz Magnum 60 min
3 oz Cascade 45 min
2 oz Cascade 30 min
3 oz Cascade 10 min
2 oz Simcoe 10 min
4 oz Dry hop

– Posted by Chaz