Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Go BIG with the New Double Dead Ringer IPA 💥🍻

Introducing Double Dead Ringer 85 IBUs & 11% ABV Doubly Deceitful

How can you improve perfection? Double it. Your favorite IPA beer kit, Dead Ringer IPA just got an upgrade! Inspired by a heartfelt love of the popular IPA from Michigan, this upgraded double version clocks in at 11% ABV, and is now available year-round. Malty, fruity, citrusy - go big, and brew this bad boy at home! The Double Dead Ringer is the newest addition to our year-round recipe lineup, and it's an in-your-face hop punch to the mouth that'll leave you stumbling to the corner of the ring.

Brewing Notes

Style: Double / Imperial IPA

Recipe: Extract & All Grain

Fermentation Range: 65 - 70° F

Batch Size: 5 Gallons

OG: 1.100

SRM: 9

IBUs: 85

ABV: 11%

Tasting Notes

Aroma: Complex aromas of substantial hop character interlaced with deep bready malt notes with a hint of semi-sweet caramel.

Appearance: Burnished orange hue with a slight dry hop haze. Firm, tightly-laced white frothy head.

Flavor: Intense citrus and floral hop flavors exhibiting a bracing bitterness, prominent malt character with faint hints of toffee and sweet caramel.

Mouthfeel: Medium to medium-full bodied with a lingering bitterness on the tongue.

Double Dead Ringer Beer Recipe Kit Tasting Radar

Brewer's Notes

"Well, it's been a while since we have released an Imperial IPA kit, and now seemed like as good a time as any. We've taken our all-time best selling recipe kit and cranked it up to 11(%). This leviathan of a beer clocks in at a specific gravity of 1.100 and flaunts a total of 12 ounces of Centennial hops to create a colossal flavor experience. Bracing bitterness and somewhat excessive hop flavor and aroma are what make this imperial IPA stand out amongst the average offering.

To successfully pull off this recipe, we have formulated this kit to produce a total of 6 gallons of wort to account for losses to the preposterous amount of hops added during the boil and the dry-hop stage. The resulting batch will still end up at 5 finished gallons, but leave you with enough volume to avoid getting hop and yeast particulates into your bottles or keg during packaging. Be sure to pitch a ton of yeast at this one to ensure a healthy fermentation, and be extra certain to oxygenate/aerate the wort thoroughly to avoid undue stress on the yeast. When it's all said and done, be careful with this one - it packs a serious punch "

- Brad Segall, Head Development Brewer