About two weeks ago I won 3lbs of Cascade hops. 3lbs. Wtf am I gonna do with 3lbs?

IPAs I guess.

I’m more partial to Red IPA. So I dug out an old version of an amber and ramped in up a bit.

Also won some of this DRC that I been wanting to try. I guess keeps the deep caramel flavors but less of the prune/raisin. That would fit right in with this old amber.

Duck Creek IPA- 5 gallon

• 11lbs 2row
• 1.5lbs 60L
• .5lbs double roasted crystal 120
• 1oz Eureka @60
• 2oz cascade @15
• 2oz cascade @Flame out
• Mashed at 154
• Nottingham yeast

One of the things I just noticed about using this Mash and Boil, is that the smaller diameter boiler let’s the trub pile up pretty high.

Even after a whirlpool, a 20 minute stand to settle out, and leaving a 1/2 gallon behind under the valve, I still got 2″ of trub in the fermenter.

I will figure all that gunk into the next brew formula. I will probably never get used to that in these BiaB type systems.

I’ll probably have to start thinking about getting bigger fermenters if I wanna keep doing 5 gallon batches. That much extra trub is really going to be pushing it on volumes. The buckets should be just fine though.