Just Kinda Happened

I wanted to clear out some leftovers so I pieced together a brew today.  Here’s what happened:
12# 2-Row
1# Crystal 20
.5# Light Munich
.5# Wheat Malt
.25# Biscuit Malt
Mashed at 152F for 60 mins.
2.2 oz US Tettnanger at 60 mins
3 oz Fuggles at 15 mins
3.8 oz Fuggles at 1 min and steep for 30 mins.
1056 slurry to be pitched (still steeping while I have a Chimay clone)

What have I done?  I’ve never made a Tett/Fuggle IPA before!  Any predictions?  ???

Dave

I predict you will have an incredible beer.

No way…it’s got Fuggles!  :wink:

I hope so!

That’s why I had so much sitting around and why I’m a little worried!  I use Fuggles in my Stout and ESB but that’s about it…

Now the twist is I have about 1.5oz of Amarillo left which I’m toying around with using to dry hop.  That combo can not have been brewed yet:  Tettnanger/Fuggle/Amarillo!  Ha! ::slight_smile:

Dave

And Denny, you would be proud.  Batch sparge #2 and I may be leaning away from my homemade sparge arm.  It was really nice to sparge indoors when it’s 20F outside!

Dave

Good on ya, Dave!

Batch sparging is so wonderfully easy. 83% every time on a double batch sparge.

What do you get with only one sparge?  I get 83-85% with one.

I like fuggles  :slight_smile:

Shipyard IPA is a tasty English IPA brewed with Fuggles that I enjoy quite a bit. Unless you are a confirmed Fugglephobe, I think you’re going to like the results here.

That’s good info.  I am not a Fugglephobe, just never used them in an IPA before so I had no idea what I was getting in to.  Would you now advise not to dry hop it?  I did a 3.8oz hopstand for 30 mins with Fuggles.  It sounds like I should let them shine at this point…

Dave

I’ve never dry-hopped with them myself. My gut says skip the dry hops, unless you have a few ounces of EKG’s laying around.

As a matter of fact,  I do!  Not a bad idea.

I dry hop with them in my red ales. They have an incredible aroma.

Fuggles or EKG?

I love fuggles but haven’t brewed with them in a long time. Though I understand Denny- I have some sort of issue with Perle hops.

I think it will be good.  I like fuggles.  Despite all those hops I don’t think it’ll be a hop bomb, with that grain bill it will be malty and somewhat hoppy, yet delicious :smiley:

Fuggles

I don’t know how you do it. I get around 74% with my mill set at .035".