Does anyone have an opinion about Brewer's Best India Pale Ale?

elaeace · 11-29-2011, 11:27 PM

Thinking about doing Brewer's Best India Pale Ale for my next brew. Has anyone brewed this recipe? Any pros or cons to speak of?...and most importantly...is the hop flavor/ aroma good?...I heard it compared to "Dog Fish Head 60 Minute".

RDWHAHB!!!

DMartin · 11-29-2011, 11:31 PM

I was going to, but it was prohibitively expensive ($57 I think at my LHBS). I'd recommend finding an extract recipe and ordering individual ingredients from Midwest.

This is purely a financial opinion, I haven't tasted or made this beer.

bighorn_brew · 11-29-2011, 11:49 PM

I made this a couple months ago...I had some free points from my credit card to spend on amazon.com , and was getting back into brewing so I wanted something easy, and couldn't find anything better to spend my points on,,,so ended up with it...Didn't disappoint. I even accidently left the couple ounces of crystal out accidently, still worked out...

spam · 11-29-2011, 11:57 PM

I just bottled this 14 days ago. so far it tastes great but is murky and flat,,,,hopefully with some time it will be clear and carbed!

cwdrake · 11-30-2011, 12:08 AM

I made this a few months ago. You might want to alter the hop schedule some. The instructions have you add the bittering and flavor hops all at the beginning of the boil(60 min) and then the aroma hops 5 minutes before the end. Mine turned out very bitter with no hop flavor or aroma. If I were to do it again, I would move the flavor hops to somewhere closer to the middle of the boil for better flavor.

elaeace · 11-30-2011, 12:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwdrake

I made this a few months ago. You might want to alter the hop schedule some. The instructions have you add the bittering and flavor hops all at the beginning of the boil(60 min) and then the aroma hops 5 minutes before the end. Mine turned out very bitter with no hop flavor or aroma. If I were to do it again, I would move the flavor hops to somewhere closer to the middle of the boil for better flavor.

Great...I will try it out and put the hops in later in the boils... Thanks fellas

elaeace · 11-30-2011, 12:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DMartin

I was going to, but it was prohibitively expensive ($57 I think at my LHBS). I'd recommend finding an extract recipe and ordering individual ingredients from Midwest.

This is purely a financial opinion, I haven't tasted or made this beer.

I heard the Imperial Pale Ale is even more expensive... Our LHBS has the India Pale Ale from Brewers Best for $45

cwdrake · 11-30-2011, 12:15 AM

Keep the bittering hop packet at the beginning. Just move the flavor hop packet a little later. And keep the aroma hops where the instructions tell you.

**MrPostman** · 11-30-2011, 02:08 AM

I brewed this a month ago, nailed the OG and the FG was 1.014. all smells wonderful. I modified the hops schedule a bit, which i'll post if you like, and additionally bought 2 oz of extra hops for secondary because I wanted to beef this monkey up a bit. so far so good, I'm really looking forward to it!

**Qhrumphf** · 11-30-2011, 02:25 AM

I brewed this with my brother in law as his first batch this summer. Did alter the hops a bit (if I remember correctly, it had Columbus as bittering, with two separate packs of Cascade for "flavor" and "aroma" with different AA ratings) with just the Columbus at the beginning, pushed half the Cascade to the later additions (and added some extra Centennial I had in the late additions), and had him dry hop with the rest of the Cascade. After pitching the yeast and closing it up it was out of my hands, but he gave me a couple bottles. He said 1.014 was where he finished as well. A tad oxidized, but other than that quite tasty.

Edit: Also worth noting that we did it as a full boil, but according to my software calculations the IBUs weren't too much higher