The Best West Coast IPA | A Heavy Metal Homebrew | Grain to Glass

Two Homebrewers, one Mission: To create the hoppiest West Coast IPA yet. Armed with way too much Idaho 7 in three different forms, these outlaws are pushing the limits of common sense. Join our anti-heroes on a brewing journey involving malt samples, hop bale samples, cryo-hops, and a whole lotta heavy metal. ALL GRAIN HOMEBREW RECIPE OG 1.063 FG 1.009 7.1% ABV 71 IBU (calculated) WATER PROFILE Ca 123 Mg 8 Na 39 SO4 205 Cl 80 GRAIN BILL 6% Munich 1 31% Golden Promise 63% Pilsner Mash at 149F/ 65C for 71 minutes First Wort Hops: 71 IBU of Idaho 7 Flameout: 1oz (28g) Columbus 4oz (112g) Idaho 7 pellet Chill to 170F/ 76C 100g (ish) of whole cone Idaho 7 (use a bag, for the love of god) WLP 090 Super San Diego DRY HOP 1oz (28g) Chinook Cryo 1oz (28g) Idaho 7 Cryo 1oz (28g) Columbus 3oz (85g) Idaho 7 Pellet EQUIPMENT USED Spike Kettles and Flex Plus Fermenter Blichmann Hellfire Burner Blichmann Beer Gun Hops from Yakima Valley Hops, and various Yakima Chief Cryo/Bale samples Malt Samples from Riverbend Malt All other hops/grain/yeast etc purchased from Ferment Station in Knoxville TN VIDEO EQUIPMENT Panasonic GH5, Panasonic and Voightlander lenses Edited on DaVinci Resolve Studio Film Convert Nitrate Plug-in Music from Epidemic Sound feat Under Earth, Carvings, and Marc Torch Stock Images/Video from Adobe Stock