Milkshake IPA - Brewing advice

[lukeyx]

Hello all,

Longtime lurker here taking in all the knowledge of you guys, couple of questions just after some advice please.

I haven't yet invested the money into buying the equipment needed for all grain brewing (seriously thinking of buying a Grain father setup though)

The other day I tried something totally new to the beer I like - a couple of "Milkshake IPAs" - I know some people really hate them, but I loved the texture, creaminess and sweetness of these IPAs.

Atm I brew using extract kits, is there a way I could recreate this kind of IPA style without using all grain? I know mainly they use lactose and fruit to get the results - but every single recipe I have seen uses all grain, my question is - is it possible to create a nice silky sweet milkshake IPA without the equipment needed for all grain brewing.

Thanks guys

 

[Ajhutch]

No problem at all, just use extract to replace the grain and add the lactose and the fruit as per the all grain recipe

 

[lukeyx]

No problem at all, just use extract to replace the grain and add the lactose and the fruit as per the all grain recipe

Cheers bud, exactly what I was thinking but obviously every extract is different - is there a good "base" extract to start with for these custom recipes.

So like a base extract which I can add hops, lactose and fruit to. Thanks

 

[Leon103]

Just use pale dry malt extract.

 

[lukeyx]

Just use pale dry malt extract.

How can I use the dry malt extract without cooling it (with the copper coils) - every single video I have seen that uses the dry malt extract powder, they boil it and then need to cool it down really fast? With the kits I have previous used you just have the liquid malt extract which you add 3.5 litres of boiling water to and then just topup with cold - can the same process be done with the malt extract powder (mix with 3.5 litre of boiling water and then just topup to 23litres with cold)

Cheers guys sorry for the noob questions

 

[Ajhutch]

You have a few options if you’re not yet set up to do the boiling/cooling. You can just do as you describe and pour some boiling water over dry extract and lactose to sanitise it. The issue with that is you won’t have any hop bitterness. Milkshake IPA doesn’t have a lot of bitterness and in a full boil scenario most of the hops would be added very late. So you could probably boil some hops in a saucepan to extract some bitterness and mix that in.

Another alternative would be to use a cheapish hopped kit (like a Wilko blonde ale) as your base, make it up as usual and add the lactose, fruit and dry hops to that. The kits have hop bitterness already so it would be less labour intensive.

 

[lukeyx]

You have a few options if you’re not yet set up to do the boiling/cooling. You can just do as you describe and pour some boiling water over dry extract and lactose to sanitise it. The issue with that is you won’t have any hop bitterness. Milkshake IPA doesn’t have a lot of bitterness and in a full boil scenario most of the hops would be added very late. So you could probably boil some hops in a saucepan to extract some bitterness and mix that in.

Another alternative would be to use a cheapish hopped kit (like a Wilko blonde ale) as your base, make it up as usual and add the lactose, fruit and dry hops to that. The kits have hop bitterness already so it would be less labour intensive.

Cheers bud, sounds like a plan, might invest in a 5ltre boiling pot - boil and mix in and then pour straight into fermentation bin.

Thanks for the help guys