Pliny the Elder - Ordinary Bitter Partigyle

Perhaps the greatest IPA ever created, Pliny the Elder holds a warm and tender spot in my heart.  It is the only beer that lives up to its tremendous hype, in my humble opinion.  I have had Pliny the Younger, and I still prefer the Elder.  Vinny gave out his recipe many years ago and it is a very good recipe, but you just know it is not the real thing when drinking it.  This was my second time brewing the recipe and I did a blind taste test with a fresh bottle of Pliny from the west coast.  It is darn close, but the finish just isn't the same.  Likely due to the enormous amount of dry hops, this beer continually changes in the keg and in the bottle.  It typically gets darker for me over time.  Because of the higher gravity of the mash, I decided to try a partigyle brew from the second runnings.  The resulting ordinary bitter turned out to be really, really good.  If I brew Pliny again, which I know I will, I will always make this ordinary bitter on its heels.  This was a long, but very fun brew day.  I used my CB20 system for the Pliny and my 5 gallon stockpot on the stove for the ordinary bitter.

Update (11/22) - I found a bomber of this brew stashed away in my basement and delightfully cracked it after work.  It was so much better than I remembered on tap, the simcoe hops punching through, the color did get darker as it had for me before.  I was on the fence about brewing this one again with the upcoming hop shortage, but I may have to make it again.

Grains:

15.25# 2-row

.5# Wheat

.5# c-40

Mash at 150

Additions:

90 minute boil

1.5# corn sugar          

2 oz warrior at 90

2 oz chinook at 90

1 oz simcoe at 45

1 oz columbus at 30

2.25 oz centennial at 0

1 oz simcoe at 0

3.25 oz columbus dry hop 10 days

1.75 oz centennial dry hop 10 days

1.75 oz simcoe dry hop 10 days

S-05 ferment at 67 ferment raise to 70

OG 1070
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Mosher's Ideal Pale Ale

Water Adjustments (tsp)

.587 Epsom Salt

.066 Chalk

4.407 Gypsum

Ca=120

SO4=269

Mg=19

Na=27

Cl=70

Carb=65

Hard=377

Alk=57

3 gallon Ordinary Bitter Partigyle

Mash Additions:        

.25# C-120

.125# Special Roast

Added 3.5 gallons of 170 water, stirred and let sit for 15 minutes or so     

Boil Additions:
60 min boil

.6 EKG at 60

.25 EKG at 30

.25 EKG at 1

           

s-04 at 68 degrees
OG 1044     
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