Always October IPA

Here's great IPA recipe I brewed late last summer.  This was a favorite of mine during the San Francisco Giants postseason run to a World Series victory last fall.  I can remember my keg running empty during game 5 of the World Series thinking, "well, I hope my empty keg doesn't have any impact on the Giants winning this World Series".  Turns out the Giants got crushed in game 6 and then took care of business in game 7.  Apparently the "fullness" of my keg had nothing to do with the Giants postseason mojo.

Grains:

13.50 lbs US 2 row pale malt
0.60 lbs Crystal 20

Hops:

0.50 oz Citra @ 13.2% AA First Wort Hops
1.50 oz Citra @ 13.2% AA @ 45 minutes remaining
2.0 oz Citra @ 13.2% AA @ 20 minutes remaining
2.0 oz Citra @ 13.2% AA @ 1 minutes remaining
2.0 oz Citra @ 13.2% AA @ dry hop secondary

Additions:

1 Whirlfloc Tablet @ 15 minutes remaining

Yeast:

White Labs WLP 005 British Ale

Mash & Sparge:

Mash 3.9 gallons of water at 150 degree F for 90 minutes (strike temperature of 169 degrees F).  

Sparge 4.8 gallons of water at 170 degree F for 60 minutes.  Collect approximately 7 gallons of wort and boil for one hour.  You may need to adjust how much wort is collected based on your system. 

Efficiency = 70%

Batch Size = 5.50 gal

OG = 1.059

FG = 1.017

ABV = 5.5%

IBU = 127

Color = 5.7 SRM