Easy All Grain American style IPA

[gedburg101]

Hi,

I've looked through Beersmith and there are loads of interesting recipes for American style IPAs but a lot of them either seem to be a bit complicated or are based on volumes bigger than I can currently deal with.

So....

Can anybody recommend a good American Style IPA recipe at around 6.5%ABV? Looking for something hoppy but not OTT. Must produce a batch of around 20 Litre. I only have around 26 litre capacity in my boiler.

Cheers.

 

[rodabod]

What American-style IPAs do you like?

 

[gedburg101]

A big obvious but I like a lot of the Brewdog stuff but the clone recipes seem a bit intimidating.

I've only done a few 1 gallon batches and it would be my first time using the full set up.

 

[clibit]

Summat like this?

Batch Size (L): 19.0
Original Gravity (OG): 1.062
Final Gravity (FG): 1.014
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 6.34 %
Bitterness (IBU): 58.3 (Average)

4.700 kg Pale Malt (95.92%)
0.200 kg Crystal (4.08%)

25.0 g Simcoe Leaf (13.2% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (1.3 g/L)
25.0 g Amarillo Leaf (8.9% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (1.3 g/L)
20.0 g Simcoe Leaf (13.2% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (1.1 g/L)
25.0 g Amarillo Leaf (8.9% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (1.3 g/L)
25.0 g Simcoe Leaf (13.2% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (1.3 g/L)
4.2 g Irish Moss @ 15 Minutes (Boil)

Mash at 66°C for 60 Minutes.
Ferment at 20C with Safale US-05

 

[Leon103]

I have recently done a apa. Check my post in the brewday forum for the recipe

 

[rodabod]

Clibit's recipe should suit your needs. I would also dry-hop, though that's my personal preference. It's not essential, as evidenced by Thornbridge's Jaipur.

I think if you go to the effort of making all grain, then adding an extra type of hop or speciality grain isn't much compared to how much other effort and expense is involved.

If you really want to strip things down, then you could do a single malt / single hop brew using Maris Otter and a hop that works well on it's own like Citra, Amarillo or US Cascade. I'd make the extra effort and go for something like the recipe posted though.

 

[gedburg101]

Cheers guys. What are the effects of dry hopping?

 

[clibit]

You don't get wet. But you do get tired.

Sorry, puerile humour moment there. Aroma. And flavour. When you soak a load of hops in the beer after fermentation at fermentation temperature the aromatic hop oils are released but don't evaporate, so you get a rich hop aroma.