6.18.2012

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 

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