Brewed: Duck Hook IPA – Kohatu

By scot in Beer Recipes, Home Brewing on Friday, November 1st, 2013

Whirlpool hops with Kohatu hops.

I brewed my first batch of Duck Hook IPA last year. The line of beers is an ode to an individual hop each time I make the brew. I use 4.0 ounces of one hop: usually 2.0 ounces make the boil and the other 2.0 ounces are used for dry hopping. The day also included Chuck lugging his brewing equipment over to brew up a double batch, each with a different hop.

I have to admit that I made the beer so many times last year that I sort of lost interest: same base profile every time got a little stale, along with the fact that a few of the hops I used didn’t excite me all that much.

Fast forward to now: it has been more than a year since I brewed up a batch of Duck Hook IPA, I recently purchased some Kohatu hops, Pat tells me they are fantastic, time to play!

I used the base recipe that I have all along, I just changed out the regular wheat malt for non-malted wheat. It was a left-over from another brew day. The brew day was fantastic. I brewed on a Friday, as I took a vacation day (was originally to be used to go to Darkness), this means that I was at home alone. No kids, no wife, just my thoughts about brewing and a home brew or two to enjoy during the process. These factors allowed me to hit all my numbers while start to finish, inducing clean up, took a mere five hours. Enjoy!

General Information:
Brew Date: Friday, November 01, 2013
Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: Safale S-05
Yeast Starter: none
Batch Size (Gallons): 5.50
Original Gravity: 1.064
IBU: 60.9
Color: 8.4 SRM
Boiling Time (Minutes): 60
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70%
Alcohol by Volume: 6.6%
Fermentation: 14 days @68*F, 4 day dry hop @66*F

Grain Bill:
11.0# Two-Row
1.00# Munich
0.50# Caramel 10L
0.50# Caramel 80L
0.50# Flaked Wheat

Mash:
Saccharification @154.0*F

Hop Bill:
0.75 ounces Warrior @60 minutes
1.00 ounces Kohatu first wort (treated as 20 minute addition)
1.00 ounces Kohatu whirl pool (treated as 30 minute addition)

Extras:
1.0 tsp Irish Moss @ 15 minutes
1.0 tsp Yeast Nutrient @ 15 minutes

Update(s):

• 2013-11-03: Fermenting like mad (see short video above).

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