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I brewed this up Wednesday evening. I won't bother posting many recipes cause I'm pretty much a recipe whore. Most my recipes come from somewhere else with maybe minor tweaks. This IPA though was one I've been working on. I brew an IPA and a scaled down APA version of this beer every few months.

It features Summit hops, which is a high-alpha dwarf. It really packs a citrus punch and will push most any other hops aside. I think the Amarillo might get lost in here, but I've got a bunch on hand. The Centennial hold their own and this is the first time trying Columbus. Usually I do Simcoe or Cascade. With Summit I get tangerine and if you use enough, grapefruit. I think when it's young, it makes for an onion/garlic-goodness that I really dig, but it seems to fade quickly. Scott at Harpers turned me on to this one in his Wheat IPA.

Anyway, I made this to be an easy drinker with a low FG w/ the sugar. This time around I added some crystal 120 for the heck of it, looking to add some complexity. It's got lots of late-addition hops to it. The slurry got this up and running by morning and when I checked in on it this evening, the fermentation freezer smelled very, very nice.

6.5 gallons / 1.068 OG / 90+ IBUs / 80%

11.0 # Marris Otter
1.0 # Table sugar
0.5 # German Munich
0.5 # German Vienna
0.5 # C40
0.5 # C120
0.5 # Victory

FWH - 1 oz Summit
10 Minutes - 0.5 each Summit/Centennial/Columbus/Amarillo
5 Minutes - 0.5 each Summit/Centennial/Columbus/Amarillo
0 Minutes - 1.0 each Summit/Centennial/Columbus/Amarillo

1 oz Centennial and Amarillo in the primary as fermentation wraps up.

200 ml of WLP001 slurry

153 mash, 67 degree ferment