by dbmanager
Saturday February 20, 2010 @ 3:08 AM
So you like hops huh? Well I am sitting here on the eve of brewing a new double IPA, the Ten Point IPA. No it will not be ten % alcohol but rather the name is part of our "Buck" series of pale ales. Let me explain. Our house IPA, the Eight Point IPA was named after an eight point buck I saw one morning while trying to think of beer names sortly before we opened. The "Buck" scale works not off of exact alcohol numbers but general strength. For example, we have a seasonal beer called Four Point Pale Ale, while it was 4% abv, it was named because it was less strong than the Eight Point IPA but still hoppy. Last winter I brewed a beer with Bob and Ellie Tupper of Tuppers Hop Pocket fame called Twelve Point IPA (on premise) and Tuppers Deep Pockets (off premise). This new Ten Point IPA will fall in strength between out normal IPA and the Twelve Point. It should clock in at 7.8% abv, and be supper hoppy. I'm not even going to guess at the IBU's. Essentially I'm adding twice the hops that's in our normal house IPA.
The Ten Point IPA is inspired by some of the west coasts double IPA's, especially Pizza Ports / Port Brewing Hop 15. That beer is brewed with 15 different hops added every 15 minutes of the boil. The Ten Point IPA will be brewed with ten types of hops added ten times during the boil. I will add two pound of each hop to a large bucket and mix them. Then I will had the hop mixture ten times during the boil to create what I can only imagine to be pure hop fury. The hops going into this beer are the following; Cascade, Centennial, Columbus, Simcoe, Amarillo, Willamette, Fuggle, East Kent Goldings, Saaz, and Hallertau Tradition. I will also dry hop this beer with the same hop mixture.
Expect to see this on tap in April.
Hoppy Trails,
Jason
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