Originally this beer was going to be a clone of Victory’s Hop Wallop, but due to not having the correct ingredients, or rather the best guess as to the correct ingredients since there’s no clone recipes I could find, it changed to an invented recipe for a double or imperial IPA. The Hop Wallop should have German malt and noble hops. The Boathouse IPA we brewed has Maris Otter, Vienna, and carapils malts, and Galena, Glacier, Columbus, and Chinook hops. IBUs are calculated to be 200, with hops at first wort, 60, 30, 15, and 0 minutes. The gravity is 1.073, so it’ll have some alcohol or malt flavours to somewhat balance the crazy amounts of hops. The Dry English yeast began fermenting within an hour of pitching, and the London Ale was an hour or so later.

The new stainless steel pin (5.4 US gallon cask) arrived earlier this week, so we racked half of the Alpha King clone to it, and put the other half in a secondary. Gravities were high, I suppose due to the new yeast used. The pin should have no trouble conditioning in a week. There was over a gallon leftover as well, so that was put in a gallon jug with an airlock.