Brew an American IPA - Gold Medal Winner!

[@CascadesHomebrew]

Dominion Cup Update: This beer scored 34 which was enough to earn a 1st Place in the American IPA category! The judges gave plenty of positive comments about the hop aroma/flavors, appearance, and malt bill. Most of the negative comments were related to being too bitter with astringent/harsh character. I am still not 100% sure of the source of the extra bitterness/astringency in this batch. It could be the quality/character of the hops used, maybe a side effect of the slow fermentation, or just some process error on my part.

[@Patcannistan]

Thank you Harrison Modine.

[@wd6358]

brewed a 2.5 g batch of this. I royally effed up the ingredients but it turned out amazing! basically, because my local homebrew shop only sells grain in 1 lb increments, instead of 5.75 lbs of 2 row, 6 oz of crystal 20 and 10 oz of white wheat, I threw in 6 lbs of 2 row, and 1 lbs of each of the other. its a little dark and hazy but it's great

[@CascadesHomebrew]

Awesome. Glad to hear your batch turned out.

[@Styv93]

You look like Harrison Ford ahah... Nice video comparison, waiting for more videos! =)

[@Duci1989]

Appreciate the channel! You've been popping up in my recommendations for a while, subbed now. Hope you get more subs.

[@fuzzybeard17]

Hey Brent! I brewed your recipe a few weeks ago with a few modifications and it turned out pretty good! I would dial back my water salt additions and stick to your recipe’s hop schedule next time but I was happy with the results otherwise. It also received good feedback from friends who tried it. Thanks for the recipe and will brew again! I also step mashed which got lowered the body quite a bit so it was nice and crisp (for an IPA) for the summer.

[@CascadesHomebrew]

Glad to hear it turned out for you!

[@CB-ck2yg]

The most recent batch of IPA I brew was dry-hopped at cold crash temps, although I normally dry hop that recipe at fermentation temps...three days may not have been long enough. The final beer has very little aroma compared to how this recipe usually turns out. Five or six days might work better if done at cold crash temps.

[@CascadesHomebrew]

Thanks for sharing. I have had good luck with cool/cold dry hopping in the past, but with this specific batch the warm one had more flavors. I might still play around with different hops, and different time/temps. I added some links in the comments on articles about dry hopping.

[@mrdespizeme]

This is an interesting concept, shamefully, one I've NEVER thought to perform. I wonder how things would turn out, if after cold crash and racking, bringing the beer back up to say around 170f or so, and then dry hopping? Could be an interesting experiment on a one gallon batch. Of course you'd have to adjust IBU, but even something much lower than 170f should in theory, extract more hop oils.

[@CascadesHomebrew]

Yeah, I have never thought about "Hot" dry hopping. I suspect it would make a difference in the flavors, but it would be hard to say if that would be a positive or a negative.

[@mrdespizeme]

@@CascadesHomebrew I agree. I think it would be very important to make sure as much yeast as possible was "removed" before attempting, but it could be interesting.

[@iamonky]

awesome!

[@BitterRealityBrewing]

Great job and I love the test. I think the hops matter to some degree but I'll stick to the 70F dry hopping for now. Brulosophy did one where he did cold and hot mashing using some dark malts (I think it was a chocolate malt) and shockingly it was really down to personal preference as the cold mashed dark malts he described as having some tobacco flavors which instantly told me I'd avoid the cold mashed dark grains until I have time to do my own experiments.

[@CascadesHomebrew]

Thanks. I had expected the cold dry hopped batch to "win" based on some prior batches and reading, but the warm dry hopped batch just had more dry hop character. I might play with dry hopping at a temp more like 55F (with the theory that a soft crash will drop out yeast before dry hopping). There are definitely many techniques to make great beer, and often it just comes down to preferences.

[@neostroll9992]

Interesting video...............you deserve more subscriptions, i've subscribed :)

[@DrHansBrewery]

Nice video!