Yesterday, Guest Brewer Mike and I whipped up a batch of Four Lane Double IPA. This beast was 15 lbs. of malt extract and six ounces of hops in the boil (two more ounces are on reserve for dry hop duty). We made a slight change from our original recipe, using an ounce of Cascade at 1 minute rather than Centennial, since I had screwed up the ingredient order and didn't have enough Centennial. This bad boy came out to be OG 1.118 (slightly higher than our target, but who's counting?). We pitched in a 1300 ml starter of Wyeast Northwest Ale which resulted in fermentation starting within four hours. Approximately eight hours after pitching, the beer went el nutso and blew the fermentation lock out of the carboy and all over the pantry. We quickly got the mess contained and we are now using a blow off tube into a five gallon bucket (the two quart pickle jar typically used wasn't looking up to the challenge). I plan on taking a gravity reading in a couple of days and see how things are going. I will probably repitch if the gravity isn't below 1.070.
So 4L DIPA is off to an explosive start and I am definitely looking forward to getting this puppy into secondary with two more ounces of hops.
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