Hair of the Dog Brewing Company: Blue Dot Double IPA clone
Named for planet Earth and brewed in honor of Earth Day, this double IPA is brewed at the brewery with organic malts and a combo of intese hops. It features lots of herbal, floral, citrus, grapefruit, raw honey, and fresh mint hop aromas.
Hair of the Dog Brewing Company: Blue Dot Double IPA clone recipe
(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)
OG = 1.073 FG = 1.016
IBU = 100+ SRM = 6 ABV = 7.5%
Ingredients
13.15 lbs. (6 kg) organic Pilsner malt
1.75 lbs. (0.8 kg) organic flaked rye
40 AAU Warrior® hops (75 min.) (2.5 oz./71 g at 16% alpha acids)
35 AAU Magnum hops (30 min.) (2.5 oz./71 g at 14% alpha acids)
30 AAU Columbus hops (0 min.) (2.5 oz./71 g at 12% alpha acids)
2.5 oz. (71 g) Warrior® hops (dry hop)
2.5 oz. (71 g) Amarillo® hops (dry hop)
Wyeast 1728 (Scottish Ale) or White Labs WLP028 (Edinburgh Scottish Ale) yeast (2 qt./2 L yeast starter)
3⁄4 cup (150 g) dextrose (if priming)
Step by Step
This is a single infusion mash. Achieve a target mash temperature of 155 °F (68 °C). Mash out, vorlauf, and then sparge at 170 °F (77 °C) to collect roughly 8 gallons (30 L) of wort in your brewpot.
Boil for a total of 180 minutes, adding the hops at the times indicated in the ingredient list. After the boil, cool, aerate, and ferment at 68 °F (20 °C).
After fermentation is complete, dry hop for five to seven days and then bottle or keg.
Partial mash option: Reduce the Pilsner malt in the all-grain recipe to 2.25 lbs. (1 kg) and add 2 lbs. (0.91 kg) Briess organic light dried malt extract and 5 lbs. (2.3 kg) Briess organic light liquid malt extract. Steep grains for 45 minutes at 155 °F (68 °C) in 5 qts. (4.7 L) of water. Add dried malt extract to wort and bring wort volume to 6.5 gallons (25 L) and boil for 90 minutes. Add hops as per ingredient list and liquid malt extract for final 15 minutes of boil. Follow the remaining portion of the all-grain recipe.
