Bearded Fury IPA

Last week was my spring break, and I was excited to be able to get not one, but two brews in. I have a second child arriving in June, and with a 2 year old already in the mix, I know it's going to be a busy summer. My plan is to get as much brewing in as possible (aiming for 3 more before end of May) so that I have some beer stocked up for the summer and can feed my habit before I need to take a short hiatus.
Anyway, I've been into hoppy beers lately and so I decided to brew up an IPA and a Pale Ale. I'll have more on the pale ale later in the week. As for the IPA...I've never felt like I've gotten the style down. My first IPA was made using a concoction from Northern Brewer called Hopshot. It was a decent extract IPA I called (cleverly) Hopshot IPA. Overall I liked the beer and it had some nice citrusy hops in it. My next IPA was my all organic IPA, Green Beard IPA. I got a really nice review of Green Beard from Ted @ Tedbrews, but I felt that it missed the mark on some of the bitterness. Especially compared to some excellent IPAs I've had by homebrewers like Ted and Dave @ Muckney.

So onto the Fury. Originally this beer name, and orginial label was the first from scratch beer I made. It was a pale ale that was brewed with fuggles and was a fairly tame PA. The last time I brewed it I was dissapointed in the turn out, and have not brewed it since. I'm hoping that the Pale Ale I brewed last week (and name to be revealed) will be my "house" pale ale, so I thought that the Bearded Fury needed an upgraded label and more appropriate beer to be applied to. I thought a hoppy IPA fit the bill. Enough about the name...
Bearded Fury is a little on the lower end of the IBUs, actually in the mid 40s, but I'm hoping that there will be enough bitterness to give it a backbone but really accenuate the citrusy hops. Depending on the turn out of this one, I might up the bittering hops. It's brewed with Nugget, 1 ounce of Centenial, 2 ounces of Cascade and is currently being dry hopped with 1 ounce of Cascade leaf hops. I used organic munich, organic 2-row and org Crystal 60. I'll give the full recipe when I review it. I just transferred it and it smelled great and tasted pretty good, so I'm excited for the turn out.
Later this week I'll discuss the pale ale I made with my buddy Jeff and also get to a list I've been meaning to post.
Salud!
Bearded Brewer