Burnt Mallow IPA

Ingredients-

22 lbs 2 row pale malt
1 lb Munich
2 lbs Crystal 40L
1 lb Crystal 20L

Hops-

2 oz Magnum @ 60
2 oz Centennial @ 30
2 oz Mt Hood @ 15
3 oz Mt Hood @ 10
1 oz Mt Hood @ 5
8 oz Mt Hood Dry Hop in primary

Whirfloc @ 15

Yeast-

Safale American 05

O.G. 1.055

Again my gravities are a little low but brew day was pretty awesome. No real snags or hang ups, just a beautiful sunny morning hanging out with Bryan while we brewed. This is a ten gallon batch that Bryan and I will be splitting. There was a small leak on my brew kettle after I cleaned out the ball valve. It would drip a small amount sweet wort onto the brew sculpture and burn. At the end Bryan convinced me to try it. It smelled like caramel and tasted like an over burnt marshmallow, hence the name.

24SEP2011: Transferred to secondary. Gravity is down to 1.010 giving about 5.9% ABV which is perfect for this beer. Tried a sip, the bitter comes through but not super powerful, a lot of hoppy aroma and good malt character.