My brother made a delicious IPA he called No Slack, a throwback to something from his days in the Army. Having never brewed another homebrewer’s recipe, I decided this would be a first… except I used a different yeast (he used US-05) and played around a bit with the dry hop. The resulting beer took 2nd place in the IPA category at a recent BJCP competition with a score of 39.5, not too shabby for a guy who doesn’t make or drink much of this style.

Packaging Volume: 5 gallons

Estimated OG: 1.062

Estimated SRM: 7

Estimated IBU: 60

Estimated ABV: 7%

Boil Time: 60 Minutes

GRIST

10 lbs 2.0 oz US 2-Row (80.2%)

1 lbs 12.0 oz Munich Malt – 10L (13.9%)

12.0 oz Honey Malt (5.9%)

HOPS

~23 IBU Simcoe – Boil 60 min

14 g Simcoe – Boil 30 min

15 g Mosaic – Boil 20 min

30 g Mosaic – Flameout (15-20 min stand)

15 g Simcoe – Flameout (15-20 min stand)

60 g Mosaic – Dry hop #1 (5 days)

15 g CTZ – Dry hop #1 (5 days)

30 g Nelson Sauvin – Dry hop #2 (3 days)

15 g Simcoe – Dry hop #2 (3 days)

YEAST

1.0 pkg WLP090 – San Diego Super Yeast

PROCESS

– Mash at 154°F for 60 minutes (4.5 gallons)

– Sparge with 170°F water (4.5 gallons)

– Pitch and ferment at 66°F for 3-4 days then allow to free rise up to 72°F

– Add first dry hop addition directly to primary after 4-5 days of fermentation

– Add second dry hop addition 2 days later (6-7 days into fermentation)

– Cold crash for 24+ hours after FG is stable (10-14 days)

– Package, carbonate, enjoy!

All recipes are designed for 5 gallons of packaged beer (5.25 gallons into the fermenter), 75% efficiency on a batch sparge setup, 1.15 gallon/hour boil-off, Tinseth is used for IBU, fermented in primary only, all additions before 30 minutes are measured by IBU contribution (not weight), yeast starters are made using the BrewUnited yeast calculator, Irish Moss/Whirlfloc added at 15 minutes left in boil, some salts are added to my filtered soft water. Consider using quality software to scale these recipes to your system, I prefer BeerSmith. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask!

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