Dat Dank "Dank" - Double IPA | Farmers Market | Brewing Demonstrations

A few things that I'd like to touch on that I did over the weekend.   First off, my homebrew club, the Nordeast Brewers Alliance, has been doing brewing demonstrations at the Northeast MPLS Farmers Market over the past three weekends and it's been an amazing time.   At the Farmers Market we are mainly trying to just get the word out locally that we have a Homebrew Club, talk to people about Craft beer, and recruit new members, and it's exceeded our expectations on all levels!    There is crazy buzz about beer in NE Minneapolis right now with 4 NEW breweries scheduled to open in my neighborhood this year!   It's a fun time to be in Minneapolis if you like being around a Craft Beer Revolution! 

What a great place to be demonstrating crafting your own beer.   People that attend farmers markets love when you use local ingredients and create something from scratch!   So many people stop by our booth and talk to us about beer and our club.  We passed out about 150 flyers, talking to twice that amount of people and have had 13 new members sign up to join our club!  Our boiling wort is wofting across the Farmers Market and people seem to love the smell...like grapenuts in the morning!    We've created and strengthened a bunch of relationships, ex., an ice cream vendor is creating specialty ice creams for us with our homebrews,  I've found a source for beet pollen (for my Jitterbug Perfume inspired beer that's been in my minds vault for years), we've talked to a local honey producer about bulk buys, etc.
    
For the beer we brewed this week, we actually brewed 10 gallons of IPA wort and then split it into two 5 gallon batch's with different hop schedules.  Justin hopped his with Zythos hops for our Single Hop IPA experiment in July, and I hopped my 5 gallons with the hop bill from the somewhat famous homebrew IPA recipe called THE DANKNESS created by Nathan Smith out in California.

Here is my recipe.  I used the Two Hearted Wort, added some Honey that I bought at the Farmers Market, and then hopped it like The Dankness!


Dat Dank "Dank" - Imperial IPA
with inspiration from Dat New "New"
 

Batch size: 5.25 gallons

Mash Temp: 153-154 degrees for 1 hour

Sparge Temp: 169 degrees for 5 minutes with a Double Sparge

Original Gravity (measured): 1.068

Final Gravity (estimated): 1.014

Fermentation Temp: Started at 62 degrees in a swamp cooler

Color: 7° SRM (Gold to Copper)

Mash Efficiency: 67% measured

Bitterness: 64.7 IBU

Alcohol (estimated): 7.5% ABV

Calories: 229 per 12 oz.

malt & fermentables

%	LB	OZ	Malt or Fermentable	ppg	°L
83%	12	0	American Two-row Pale	37	1
10%	1	8	Honey	35	1
7%	1	0	American Crystal 40L	34	40
	14	8

hops

use	time	oz	variety	form	aa
first wort	60+ mins	0.5	Apollo	pellet	18.0
boil	20 mins	0.5	Summit	pellet	18.0
boil	1 min	2.0	Apollo	pellet	18.0
boil	1 min	2.0	Citra	pellet	11.0
boil	1 min	2.0	Summit	pellet	18.0
dry hop	7 days	1.0	Apollo	pellet	18.0
dry hop	7 days	2.5	Simcoe	pellet	13.0
dry hop	7 days	2.5	Summit	pellet	18.0

yeast

Safale US-05 Dry Yeast