Crisis Response is pseudo-NEIPA recipe that I plan on iterating on over time in order to try and perfect it. How did it turn out this time?
Beer Specifications
Beer Name:
Crisis Response
Beer Style:
IPA
Recipe Type:
All Grain
Pre-Boil Volume:
6 gallons / 27.3 litres
Batch Size:
5 gallons / 22.7 litres
Estimated SRM:
4°
Estimated IBU:
32
Estimated OG:
1.059
Estimated FG:
1.004
Estimated ABV:
6.8%
Grain Bill/Fermentables
LBS
Fermentables
8
2-Row
1
Wheat Malt
1
Flaked Oats
6 oz
Honey Malt
4 oz
Acidulated Malt
Hops
Oz
Time
Hops
2
60 min
Tetnang
1
Whirlpool
Azacca
0.25
Whirlpool
Citra
0.25
Whirlpool
Perle
1.5
Dry Hop (5-7 Days)
Azacca
0.25
Dry Hop (5-7 Days)
Citra
Yeast
#
Yeast
1
OYL-200 Tropical IPA
Fermentation Schedule
11 days
Primary
14 days
Bottle Conditioning
Directions
Mash Temperature:
152°F / 66.7°C
Mash Time:
60 min
Boil Duration:
60 min
This being only the third version of the beer I’m still playing around with the variables and seeing where it takes me. I feel like the grain bill is mostly locked in at this point so with this iteration I simply mixed up the hop schedule based on which hops I had on hand.
Brew day was uneventful other than completely forgetting to take an Original Gravity (OG) reading *sigh* :(. The water chemistry was as follows:
118 Ca+2 13 Mg+2 76 SO4-2 0 Na+ 191 Cl- 0 HCO3-
The beer fermented out fine and I primed it with 2.3 volumes of CO2. Alas like failing to take an OG reading I also forgot to take any pictures of this beer.
Tasting Notes
Smell
While nice I think this was a slight step back from version II and lost some of it’s fruity and floral aroma.
Appearance
Very similar in appearance to all other Crisis Response versions. I really like how this beer manages to nail that rocky head perfectly.
Taste
Decent and mostly balanced although not as good as version II. I guess it really does pay to plan your hop schedule a bit more rather than just throwing in what you have on hand haha.
Yield
This brew cost $35.03 in ingredients to make and yielded 43x355ml bottles ($0.81/bottle)
So as you can tell from above this wasn’t the next best version of the recipe. I think I need to go back to basics a bit more on the hop schedule and really nail that down with the next one!