Pa ipa

PA IPA

3 Gallon Batch

3lbs Briess White Sorghum Syrup
1lb 6oz Brown Rice Syrup
8oz Belgian Candi Syrup--Dark
8oz Belgian candi Syrup--clear
8oz maltodextrine

The above were all added at start of 60 minute boil

hops

boil 60 mins 1.0 Columbus pellet
boil 5 mins 0.5 Columbus pellet
boil 1 min 1.0 Cascade pellet

1 whirlfloc tablet

Safale 04

How'd this turn out (unless you just put it together)? I was thinking of doing a similar recipe.

Also, what's the point of adding all the extracts for the full boil? Typically, I add them at the end to get more hops utilization.

This turned out great. I'm only posting recipes in this recipe section that were actually a success (by consensus too).

You can pour in the extracts later and even at flame-out. Definitely recommended to do that with honey and or candi syrup. Some people recommend dividing the sorghum between the start and end to minimize the "twang" of sorghum. But for a recipe like this the sorghum and the hops go together well. If you are aesthetically inclined, from what I have read, if you add the extracts at the start it helps for clarity in your beer's appearance. But really, add them whenever.

ChasidicCalvinist said:

Some people recommend dividing the sorghum between the start and end to minimize the "twang" of sorghum.

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So the twang results from adding it before the boil? And adding after would reduce it even more so?

That is the theory. I'm not the right one to ask. I really haven't found any issues with sorghum.

When I use sorghum it is either an IPA or Belgian style (spicy) beer and that seems to hide the sorghum just fine. When I want to make a dark "malty" beer I use tapioca and brown rice syrup with candi syrup as my base and no sorghum. So I don't really bother with when to add sorghum, I just do it at the start.