Another Split Lager/IPA

[John Sand]

Our long time readers know I like to experiment with split batches. Mostly one wort with two different yeasts. That will be the case this time also, but I am going a little bolder, I want two styles of different gravity and IBU from one boil. The plan right now is to use the grist of my Going to Hell IPA to make a lager too. That grist is about 84% Pilsner malt, 15% Munich and a little Melanoidin. OG is 1.072, IBU 74, SRM 9, ABV7.2%. Similar grist percentages at 1.052 bittered with Saaz to 34 IBU match a Czech Premium Lager. So I mash and boil ten gallons for the lager, bittering with two ounces of Saaz. At 45 minutes I stop the boil, drain off half of the wort into another kettle, add two more ounces of Saaz and cover. To the first kettle I add enough extract for the IPA, return to boil, and add hops to suit. That recipe calls for all of it's hops after 30 minutes, so I think I can produce something similar to the original recipe. The IPA will get US-05, the lager 34/70.
Or am I crazy?

[Inkleg]

Or am I crazy?

Yes, but only because you've agreed to meet us in Nashville.

That sounds like a great experiment and game plan to get you those end results. Looking forward to the follow up.

[mashani]

Very similar to what I do when I mash up 3 gallons of something, use some of it for a beer, freeze the rest and then whip it out later for use in other beers, just add something or other to it and/or use a different yeast to make it "different".

Sometimes that results in 2 ways split, but might also end up as a 3 or 4 way split in my case depending on how partial I feel like making the PM.

Of course the actual brewing of my splits might be weeks or months apart.

What I can tell you for sure is you can make multiple batches of great beer doing this type of thing.

[Kealia]

That's too much for me to think about on a single day. Good on ya.

[BlackDuck]

Sounds like an awesome plan. And it should yield two tasty beers!!