| Recipe Overview |
| Wort Volume Before Boil: | 7.00 l | Wort Volume After Boil: | 5.00 l |
| Volume Transferred: | 4.30 l | Water Added To Fermenter: | 0.00 l |
| Volume At Pitching: | 4.30 l | Volume Of Finished Beer: | 4.30 l |
| Expected Pre-Boil Gravity: | 1.058 SG | Expected OG: | 1.081 SG |
| Expected FG: | 1.019 SG | Apparent Attenuation: | 75.0 % |
| Expected ABV: | 8.3 % | Expected ABW: | 6.4 % |
| Expected IBU (using Tinseth): | 80.3 IBU | Expected Color (using Morey): | 8.8 SRM |
| BU:GU ratio: | 1.00 | Approx Color: | |
| Mash Efficiency: | 75.0 % | ||
| Boil Duration: | 90.0 mins | ||
| Fermentation Temperature: | 18 degC |
| Fermentables |
| Ingredient | Amount | % | MCU | When |
| Extract - Light Dried Malt Extract | 1.000 kg | 85.8 % | 5.0 | In Mash/Steeped |
| UK Light Crystal | 0.165 kg | 14.2 % | 8.3 | In Mash/Steeped |
| Hops |
| Variety | Alpha | Amount | IBU | Form | When |
| US Chinook | 12.4 % | 11 g | 58.8 | Loose Whole Hops | 60 Min From End |
| US Chinook | 12.4 % | 5 g | 16.2 | Loose Whole Hops | 20 Min From End |
| US Chinook | 12.4 % | 5 g | 5.3 | Loose Whole Hops | 5 Min From End |
| US Chinook | 12.4 % | 10 g | 0.0 | Loose Whole Hops | Dry-Hopped |
| Yeast |
McVicar was another strong IPA made with Crackers - this time going for Chinook. Again I'm not proud of the hopping schedule and if I were to make this beer again I would remove the 60 minute addition and drop the 5 minute in favour of larger 20 and flame out additions. Despite our best efforts I thought this was a pretty good beer and it may have even benefited from the fairly light hop additions. At the time of brewing we were listening to Garth Merenghi on Johnny Trunk's podcast - amongst introducing me to the Hawk The Slayer soundtrack, he also played the main theme from McVicar, by all accounts a pretty awful gangster film with Roger Daltrey. Good title though. This was another 4 litre batch.
