Chriso
Broken Robot Brewing Co.
Trying to figure out a hop bill for a standard American IPA... I do want it to scream hop flavor & aroma, but I also want to keep it balanced for a Single IPA, not to cross over into DIPA and 3IPAs.
I have a notoriously bad track record at brewing IPAs, I've only brewed two drinkable batches and four or five dumpers so far...
For grain bill, I am thinking something along the lines of...
11# Pale 2-Row Malt
1# Cara-Pils
8oz Caramel 40L
4oz Caramel 120L
Mashed at around 155-156 for an hour.
I am flexible on that grain bill, I just wanted something that would be a little sweet and malty to balance out the hops, but doesn't steal the stage either. BeerSmith says that comes out to 1.065 OG / 1.017 FG / 10 SRM.
I know that I want to use these three packs of hops at least, just to get them out of my freezer and used up...
- 4oz Columbus 15.1%
- 1oz Simcoe 13.2%
- 1oz Citra 13.4%
So far, I'm coming up with something like this....
0.75oz Columbus at FWH/60minute
0.75oz Columbus + 0.5oz Citra + 0.5oz Simcoe at 15 Min
1.5oz Columbus + 0.5oz Citra + 0.5oz Simcoe at flame-out
Dry hop with more Columbus.
But I know that Columbus is a particularly strong hop, and BeerSmith is saying I'm over 80IBU just with that (relatively minimal!) hop schedule.
I've got a ton of inventory I can work with... but also have a Wheat IPA recipe in my pocket that already has the remainder of my Citra & Simcoe on reserve.
I could open up one of my larger packages of... Cascade... Cluster... Amarillo... Centennial... Belma... Tettnanger... or Fuggles...
and I also have some smaller packs laying around of Nugget... Chinook... Millennium... Green Bullet... Liberty... Pacific Jade... Nelson Sauvin... old Galena from '07... and a few other oddballs.
Anyone have suggestions to round out this hop bill a little bit and make it make sense?
I have a notoriously bad track record at brewing IPAs, I've only brewed two drinkable batches and four or five dumpers so far...
For grain bill, I am thinking something along the lines of...
11# Pale 2-Row Malt
1# Cara-Pils
8oz Caramel 40L
4oz Caramel 120L
Mashed at around 155-156 for an hour.
I am flexible on that grain bill, I just wanted something that would be a little sweet and malty to balance out the hops, but doesn't steal the stage either. BeerSmith says that comes out to 1.065 OG / 1.017 FG / 10 SRM.
I know that I want to use these three packs of hops at least, just to get them out of my freezer and used up...
- 4oz Columbus 15.1%
- 1oz Simcoe 13.2%
- 1oz Citra 13.4%
So far, I'm coming up with something like this....
0.75oz Columbus at FWH/60minute
0.75oz Columbus + 0.5oz Citra + 0.5oz Simcoe at 15 Min
1.5oz Columbus + 0.5oz Citra + 0.5oz Simcoe at flame-out
Dry hop with more Columbus.
But I know that Columbus is a particularly strong hop, and BeerSmith is saying I'm over 80IBU just with that (relatively minimal!) hop schedule.
I've got a ton of inventory I can work with... but also have a Wheat IPA recipe in my pocket that already has the remainder of my Citra & Simcoe on reserve.
I could open up one of my larger packages of... Cascade... Cluster... Amarillo... Centennial... Belma... Tettnanger... or Fuggles...
and I also have some smaller packs laying around of Nugget... Chinook... Millennium... Green Bullet... Liberty... Pacific Jade... Nelson Sauvin... old Galena from '07... and a few other oddballs.
Anyone have suggestions to round out this hop bill a little bit and make it make sense?