When the homebrew club announced the style of the quarter competition was a session IPA, I figured this was something we could do.  After looking around for an interesting recipe, I landed on the Stone Session Collaboration. With a $35 cost for hops alone, This should be a pretty good beer.

Brewer’s Notes

Started brewing on a Sunday AM. Very large hop schedule. Could not find Citra, so replaced with equal amounts of Mosaic. Always wanted to try Mosaic.  Oxygenating the wort for the first time as well.  Sparged with a rinse in 1 gallon of 168F water. Added the flameout hop addition and let sit for 10 minutes, then started cooldown process, which took another 15 minutes.  Oxygen was used for 1 minute.

Color is very light with large amount of suspended particles. Very mild malt aroma and little hop aroma. Very bitter with watery flavor. Malt sugars are mild and overwhelmed. Balanced hop flavors, can’t pick a specific one out.

OG: 1.042 @ 75F, target 1.042
FG: 1.012 @ 65F, target 1.010

Fermenting Notes

Primary

Target Temperature Range: 65F
The wet thermometer was broken at the start, but fixed within a few hours of brewing, so all data was captured.

Average: 66.94F
Standard Deviation: 2.96

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8/4/2013 – 1.012 @ 65F, racking to secondary
Color is much lighter than the Chinook IPA. Dark gold, no amber / red colors. Aroma is very mild. Some hops, malt. Light flavor, watery, but full. Complex hop flavors, strong bitterness, especially on finish, but not overwhelming. Finishes dry, Val thinks its grassy, pot flavor, and wants to add some sweetness. Adding dry hop at this stage. Beer has many off-white spots on it before racking, same color as the trub. Does not seem to affect flavor.

Secondary

Target Temperature Range: 65F
The secondary ferment was pretty normal.

Average: 65.69F
Standard Deviation: 0.40

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8/12/2013 – racked to keg.
If brewing again, use a wide-mouth carboy, very difficult to get dry-hop bag out. Took 30 minutes to clean. Force-carbonated at 12.5 PSI for 2.5vols.

Tasting Notes

8/23/13 – Strong hop aroma, Simcoe / Mosaic? Very bitter. Not sure how much I like it, but I’m drinking a lot of it. Go-to beer.

10/10/13 – Local competition results. Beer Results

11/3/13 – Poured off the last into a growler.  It has lost some of its bite – this beer is really best fresh. Would be interested in trying again but without the Mosaic.

Recipe