Mosaic CTZ IPA | A Heavy Metal Homebrew Disaster | Grain to Glass

In our quest to brew the ultimate dank IPA, we may have gone overboard with the hops. Many homebrewing lessons were re-learned the hard way. So put on some headphones or crank your speakers to 11 and scare your neighbors with this dank doom-metal disaster.

Here are links to the music featured in this episode (used with permission duh)
Bearhunter: https://bearhunter666.bandcamp.com/
Valley Dweller: https://valleydweller.bandcamp.com/

0:00 Introduction "Attack at Sea (Instrumental)" Bearhunter
2:40 The Mash "Astronomer of the Void" Valley Dweller
4:11 The Hops "The Grizzly" Bearhunter
6:27 Chilling and Yeast Pitch "Witch Hunt" Bearhunter
9:50 Dry Hop and Bottling Problems "Swamp Thing" Bearhunter
13:33 The Review "Nitro-Boosted War Machine" Valley Dweller
19:18 Outro "The Plague" Bearhunter

Recipe as brewed (plus critique/suggestions)

6 Gallon Homebrew Recipe IBU 93 SRM 6.66
4oz Caramel 20L
50/50 Golden Promise/Pale Ale Malt
Aim for an OG of 1.073 for a double or 1.063 for a regular IPA
Mash at 149 for 60 minutes

1oz Mosaic FWH
1oz Mosaic 15 min
1oz Mosaic Flameout
5oz Mosaic Whirlpool 170F for 30 min

Voss Kveik at 85 ramped up to 90

Dry hop 8 oz CTZ

A note on the hop amounts: We ordered a bunch of 8oz hop cans from Yakima Valley Hops and so typically use 16oz of hops per batch to evenly go through our stash. 12-14oz of hops in this recipe is good enough. In retrospect, I would swap a couple oz of Mosaic with the CTZ in the dry hop and use CTZ to bitter and throw in the whirlpool.

A note on the yeast selection: I was kinda meh on the Voss Kveik, I would rather have used WLP 007/ Imperial House/ OYL British Ale 1. Or the Omega Pacific Northwest Ale. But not something as boring as Chico.

Do a better job cold crashing/packaging than we did too.

GLOSSARY FOR NEW BREWERS

IPA: A beer that is very hop forward. If someone tells you "you know, India Pale Ales originally traveled from England to India over 6 months and blah blah blah" run away that person has no personality.

Hops: The ingredients that give IPAs flavor and bitterness. There are many kinds of hops with vastly different flavors.

Mash: The process of turning the starch from the malted barley into fermentable sugars by activating certain enzymes in the malt at specific temperatures in water.

Sparge: Adding more water to further rinse the sugars from the grain in the mash.

Wort: The unfermented sugars from the mash which will soon become beer.

Kveik: A family of Norwegian yeasts that ferment well in hot temperatures.

Gjaerkauk: Screaming at the wort before pitching yeast. Something of a running gag on this channel.

EQUIPMENT LIST

Spike Kettles and Flex+ Fermenter
Blichmann Hellfire Burner
Blichmann Beergun

VIDEO EQUIPMENT LIST

Panasonic GH5 shot in 10bit HLG 4K (and 1080P for slomo)
Voightlander 17.5mm f0.95 and Lumix 25mm f1.7
Edited with DaVinci Resolve Studio
Film Emulation plugin FilmConvert Nitrate
Sound Effects from Epidemic Sound subscription
All the music courtesy of Bearhunter and Valley Dweller (my brother-in-law's bands)

Wow, you made it all the way down to the bottom of the description! Why don't you leave a comment telling us your favorite metal album? Here's a few of ours:

Ben's metal picks:
DEATH: The Sound of Perseverance
MASTODON: Depends on my mood. I'm feeling Crack the Skye today
HIGH ON FIRE: Snakes for the Divine
KVELERTAK: Nattesferd
KYLESA: Spiral Shadow

Chad's metal bands that he likes:
KYUSS, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, TRUCKFIGHTERS, THE SWORD