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Its been a while since i've brewed an IPA, and I recently had one at a local brewery while driving through a town that inspired me to make one. I should have asked about grain bill, hops used...etc...but didn't, to busy having a good time with beer in hand. It was a west coast style, juicy, tropical, citrusy, with grapefruit the more dominant flavor/aroma with some pine and little resin/dank.
It reminded me a little bit of Sculpin IPA or maybe even Space Dust from Elysian. I can clone either or beer, or even call the place but i'd prefer to take stab at at it knowing that the beer I brew will probably turn out really good either way
With that flavor profile in mind I made two recipes, both have the same grain bill, but with slightly different hop combos. This is for a 5g (20L) batch that i will eventually scale up to 20g (80L)
1) With the first hop schedule, I went with CTZ as the bittering hop for a touch of resin/dank, and with a ratio of 2:1 Amarillo to Simcoe. I think this is a good hop pairing, especially because simcoe supports amarillo in flavor profile and doesn't over power it in a 2:1 ratio. The flame out and dry hopping with Amarillo will drive home that tropical, citrus aroma and flavor.
Estimated OG: 1.064 SG (6.5% abv)
Estimated Color: 6.1 SRM
Estimated IBU: 70.0 IBUs
Ingredients:
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Amt
11 lbs Pale Malt (Weyermann) (3.3 SRM)
6.7 oz Carafoam (Weyermann) (2.0 SRM)
6.7 oz Carahell (Weyermann) (13.0 SRM)
0.85 oz Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus (CTZ) [15.50 %]
0.42 oz Amarillo - Boil 30.0 min
0.21 oz Simcoe - Boil 30.0 min
0.42 oz Amarillo - Boil 15.0 min
0.21 oz Simcoe - Boil 15.0 min
0.50 oz Amarillo - Boil 0.0 min
0.50 oz Amarillo - Dry Hop 3- 5 Days
2) Recipe #2 uses the same grain bill as above with the following hop schedule. This hop schedule uses magnum, which is more a cleaner bittering hop, and would let the Amarillo/Chinook shine at bit more also at a 2:1 ratio. I'm not sure how this pairing would work out but i think chinook would offer a good pine/resin backdrop without overwhelming amarillo in the same 2:1 ratio.
0.85 oz Magnum @ 60min
0.42 oz Amarillo - Boil 30.0 min
0.21 oz Chinook - Boil 30.0 min
0.42 oz Amarillo - Boil 15.0 min
0.21 oz Chinook - Boil 15.0 min
0.50 oz Amarillo - Boil 0.0 min
0.50 oz Amarillo - Dry Hop 3- 5 Days
Any thoughts would be appreciated, either to the grain bill or to the hop schedule, or you might even have a different hop pairing that imparts similar flavor profile like citra/mosaic. As long as the brew is in the ball park, I would be happy.
Cheers
It reminded me a little bit of Sculpin IPA or maybe even Space Dust from Elysian. I can clone either or beer, or even call the place but i'd prefer to take stab at at it knowing that the beer I brew will probably turn out really good either way
With that flavor profile in mind I made two recipes, both have the same grain bill, but with slightly different hop combos. This is for a 5g (20L) batch that i will eventually scale up to 20g (80L)
1) With the first hop schedule, I went with CTZ as the bittering hop for a touch of resin/dank, and with a ratio of 2:1 Amarillo to Simcoe. I think this is a good hop pairing, especially because simcoe supports amarillo in flavor profile and doesn't over power it in a 2:1 ratio. The flame out and dry hopping with Amarillo will drive home that tropical, citrus aroma and flavor.
Estimated OG: 1.064 SG (6.5% abv)
Estimated Color: 6.1 SRM
Estimated IBU: 70.0 IBUs
Ingredients:
------------
Amt
11 lbs Pale Malt (Weyermann) (3.3 SRM)
6.7 oz Carafoam (Weyermann) (2.0 SRM)
6.7 oz Carahell (Weyermann) (13.0 SRM)
0.85 oz Columbus/Tomahawk/Zeus (CTZ) [15.50 %]
0.42 oz Amarillo - Boil 30.0 min
0.21 oz Simcoe - Boil 30.0 min
0.42 oz Amarillo - Boil 15.0 min
0.21 oz Simcoe - Boil 15.0 min
0.50 oz Amarillo - Boil 0.0 min
0.50 oz Amarillo - Dry Hop 3- 5 Days
2) Recipe #2 uses the same grain bill as above with the following hop schedule. This hop schedule uses magnum, which is more a cleaner bittering hop, and would let the Amarillo/Chinook shine at bit more also at a 2:1 ratio. I'm not sure how this pairing would work out but i think chinook would offer a good pine/resin backdrop without overwhelming amarillo in the same 2:1 ratio.
0.85 oz Magnum @ 60min
0.42 oz Amarillo - Boil 30.0 min
0.21 oz Chinook - Boil 30.0 min
0.42 oz Amarillo - Boil 15.0 min
0.21 oz Chinook - Boil 15.0 min
0.50 oz Amarillo - Boil 0.0 min
0.50 oz Amarillo - Dry Hop 3- 5 Days
Any thoughts would be appreciated, either to the grain bill or to the hop schedule, or you might even have a different hop pairing that imparts similar flavor profile like citra/mosaic. As long as the brew is in the ball park, I would be happy.
Cheers