Session IPA

As the name says, an IPA that I can have more than a few pints of in a night without winding up in the Taco Bell drive through and missing a shoe. Loosely based on enohcs' American IPA recipe in the recipes section, since the batch I brewed of it was fantastic.

Batch size: 5.25 gal
Yeast: Bell's propriety strain
OG: 1.043
IBU: 60
SRM: 5.9
FG: shooting for 1.010 or so

Grain:
6.00 lb 2-row
1.25 lb Vienna
0.25 lb Crystal 60*L
0.25 lb Aromatic
0.25 lb Flaked wheat

Hops:
1.00 oz Cascade [5.5%] - 30 min
0.50 oz Chinook [13.1%] - 30 min
0.75 oz Willamette [5.0%] - 15 min
1.00 oz Centennial [9.9%] - 15 min
0.75 oz Willamette [5.0%] - 5 min
1.50 oz Cascade [5.5%] - Dry hop
0.50 oz Chinook [13.1%] - Dry hop

Mash:
Mash in at 132*F, pull decoction volume, rest for 20 minutes
Raise to 153*F, pull decoction volume, rest for 20 minutes
Raise to 168*F for mash out, sparge as normal

How does this sound? This is my first decoction, but I figured it would be a good thing to do since it apparently adds perceived body to the beer, which this would desperately need to hope to balance out the hops.

Maybe some carapils to add additional body?

I used to use carapils in all my pale ales, but I started mashing 2-3* higher without it and haven't noticed a difference. I'll definitely look at using it in this recipe since I probably do need all the crutches I can get to get a fuller body. Thanks, I didn't really to think of using it since I nixed it from my brewhouse previously.

how'd this turnout?

My guess is watery.

My session IPAs start with an original gravity of no less than 1.060. I think that is the perfect gravity level for a house ipa.

graduate said:

My session IPAs start with an original gravity of no less than 1.060. I think that is the perfect gravity level for a house ipa.

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Not sure your house IPA is a session IPA. Probably just an IPA that you really like. I made one run at making a session APA around 4-4.5% with a pretty similar grain bill but I overshot the gravity and just made a regular old APA. Oh well, it turned out great with galaxy hops. Next time I'm gonna sub munich for vienna and try to keep the gravity down to what I want.