Walker's Biting IPA

This is an attempt to brew a nice hoppy, biting IPA for my wife.

Brewer:	Walker		Email:	-
Beer:	Walker's Biting IPA		Style:	India Pale Ale
Type:	Extract w/grain		Size:	5 gallons
Color:	9 HCU (~7 SRM)		Bitterness:	63 IBU
OG:	1.052		FG:	1.015
Alcohol:	4.8% v/v (3.8% w/w)
Water:	Boil uses 2.5 gallons of distilled water with 2 tsp gypsum.
Grain:	8 oz. American crystal 20L 8 oz. Dextrine malt (Cara-Pils)
Steep:	Crush grains and place into a bag. Steep at 150°F for 30 minutes before adding extract.
Boil:	60 minutes	SG 1.104	2.5 gallons
	5 lb. 8 oz. British Light dry malt extract
	I start timing the boil when the hot break happens. All pellet hops are bagged in the boil. Plugs are loose boiled. 1 tbsp Irish moss added with 20 minutes left in the boil. Wort is cooled "poor man's" style by adding 2 gallons of ice.
Hops:	1 oz. Galena pellet (11% AA, 60 min.) 2 oz. Northern Brewer pellet (7% AA, 45 min.) 1 oz. Kent Goldings pellet (3.3% AA, 30 min.) 1 oz. Cascade plug (7.3% AA, 15 min.) 1 oz. Cascade plug (dry hop) (aroma)
Yeast:	1 packets American Dry Ale yeast (1056), rehydrated in 1 cup of 80°F water 20 minutes before the end of the boil.
Log:	Brew Date: Sept 10, 2005 Ferment for 4 days @ 77°F in primary (6.6 gallon carboy). Rack to secondary with gelatin finings. Dry hop with one ounce of Cascade hops. Ferment for 10 to 14 days @ 77°F in secondary (5 gallon glass carboy). Rack to bottling bucket with priming sugar. Bottle condition for at least 2 weeks before drinking.
Carbonation:	2.0 volumes
	use approximately 3/4 cup corn sugar added and bottling time.
Tasting:	Will update with tasting comments when it's ready to go. Initial taste of cooled wort (that had not settled the cold break yet) was horribly acrid. 9/18/05 Relief: I tasted it when racking to the secondary today, and it was gooooooood. Tossed in the dry hop cascades and sealed it up. Some small amount of airlock activity, but not much.

Recipe posted 09/19/05.