All-Grain - My 2-time gold winning American IPA - Page 7

dougmaher434 · 11-04-2011, 09:42 AM

Man I just tasted my award winning ipa extract recipe with San Diego Super Yeast instead and its fantastic. Second time I've brewed but I research a lot and compiled the recipe and tweaked a tad. I found some citra hops at a local homebrew shop and added a two stage dry hop 7 days each. Split the recipes dry hop in half and added 2 oz. of citra hops each stage.

The citra hops are probably my favorite hops for flavor and smell. I love this beer and I can't believe it tastes so good. Thanks for the original recipe. Without the original recipe I wouldn't have realized that Citra hops will work well with the combination. I tried a beer from Drake's brewing called Aroma Coma. It had a similar recipe but they added Citra and CTZ. So I figured Citras would work well with this recipe.

ThePell · 12-05-2011, 02:45 AM

Brewed it today. Now for the hard part.... Waiting.

**mountainman13** · 12-05-2011, 04:01 AM

Gonna brew this one someday

dale1038 · 02-11-2012, 07:48 PM

Brewing this again tomorrow, but I'm gonna sub some galaxy or hbc-342 in for some of the cascade. Just for a different take. This is still the best ipa I've ever made. We'll see how the changes go.

**Copbrew133** · 02-16-2012, 11:16 PM

If you wanted to boost the IBU's a bit could you do a 60 minute addition with say an ounce of Cascade or Magnum? Just curious on anyone's takes.

dale1038 · 02-16-2012, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Copbrew133

If you wanted to boost the IBU's a bit could you do a 60 minute addition with say an ounce of Cascade or Magnum? Just curious on anyone's takes.

I looked at my notes the other day and I specifically put that I thought the 30 minute addition alone was important. This thing is pretty bitter. I mean, you'll know its an ipa and not just an apa. If you have to, I would just up the chinook at 30.

enohcs · 02-17-2012, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Copbrew133

If you wanted to boost the IBU's a bit could you do a 60 minute addition with say an ounce of Cascade or Magnum? Just curious on anyone's takes.

The spirit of the recipe is that it's only late hops. If you wanted to experiment a little, I'd say move your 30 minute additions to first wort (put hops in kettle before any wort). Bitterness is spot on. If you feel it lacks, up the 30 min additions.