American IPA Citracutioner IPA

[Disintegr8or]

Recipe Type

All Grain

Yeast

US-05

Yeast Starter

Nope

Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter

2 packs

Batch Size (Gallons)

6

Original Gravity

1.075

Final Gravity

1.015

Boiling Time (Minutes)

60

IBU

68.4

Color

9.7

Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

10 @ 68

Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

None

Additional Fermentation

Dry Hop for 3 days

Tasting Notes

The malt and hop balance along with that EXPLOSIVE Citra nose is wonderful.

First off, if you love Citra, this is the IPA for you. It is basically a clone of Terrapin Hopsecutioner tweaked to be even better. This is the best IPA I've ever had. The malt and hop balance along with that EXPLOSIVE Citra nose is wonderful. Credit goes to cercueil for the starting point: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/guillotine-ipa-terrapins-hopsecutioner-clone-168549/

For a 6 gallon batch:

14lbs 2 Row (2.0 SRM)
1lb, 8oz Munich Malt (20.0 SRM)
1lb Honey Malt (25.0 SRM)
1lb Victory Malt (25.0 SRM)

I mashed this @ 148 degrees for 90 minutes and mashed out at 168 degrees for 7 minutes (I am BIAB)

1oz Warrior (15.00%) FWH
1oz Simcoe (13.00%) 15 Mins
1oz Centennial (10.00%) 5 Mins
1oz Simcoe (13.00%) @ 180 Degrees during cool down
1oz Amarillo (8.5%) @ 180 Degrees during cool down
2 to 3 oz Citra Dry Hop for 3 days after fermentation complete

I fermented this @ 68 degrees and pitched (2) packs of rehydrated US-05. It was done by day 10 so I dry hopped for 3 days at 72 degrees, then cold crashed and bottled. I was drinking it day 20, but at day 28 it really came alive. I cannot wait to brew this again in a couple weeks.

 

[Beer-lord]

Now that is a picture of a great brew! I love Citra but I'm not a fan of that much Honey Malt. How does it play in this beer? I would think 8 oz would be enough.
I love the hops and would likely want to more at 5 minutes.
The color is awesome and I love Victory and Munich together.

 

[Disintegr8or]

Thanks!

I think the honey malt is perfect on this version. I have been tweaking the recipe that I found here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/guillotine-ipa-terrapins-hopsecutioner-clone-168549/ for 4 batches now.

Post #19 of that thread has a recipe using 1.5lb of Honey malt. That was a little excessive. I took it down to 1lb this time, and felt it was perfect.

 

[Schraderbrau]

This looks great! I'm a new brewer living in Australia, but originally from the US. I can't find a decent IPA here to save my life, so I want to brew my own. I really like Hopsecutioner.

Since I'm only preparing for my second batch, I wanted to do a partial extract brew, and I was wondering if you could recommend some substitutions that would still come close to this recipe. Also, my local brew shop doesn't seem to carry most of the malts you've listed (they only have the Munich malt out of your list), but they DO have all of the hops listed here.

If I used a LME, and added the Munich malt for flavoring, and then added all of the hops as described in the recipe, how do you think it would turn out?

 

[Disintegr8or]

You can substitute 9 Lbs LME - Pale or 7.5 lbs DME - Pale

Steep the grains at 150 for 30 minutes:

1lb, 8oz Munich Malt (20.0 SRM)
1lb Honey Malt (25.0 SRM)
1lb Victory Malt (25.0 SRM)

Now I believe that Victory malt is also called Biscuit, and I've read that you can also toast 2-row for 30 minutes @ 275°F for a similar effect.

And I am not very experienced, but the only sub for honey malt I've seen is a Crystal 20-30 and mash at a higher temperature, say 155ish?

Maybe someone that knows more than me will come along and give you better ideas.

 

[Schraderbrau]

You can substitute 9 Lbs LME - Pale or 7.5 lbs DME - Pale

Steep the grains at 150 for 30 minutes:

1lb, 8oz Munich Malt (20.0 SRM)
1lb Honey Malt (25.0 SRM)
1lb Victory Malt (25.0 SRM)

Now I believe that Victory malt is also called Biscuit, and I've read that you can also toast 2-row for 30 minutes @ 275°F for a similar effect.

And I am not very experienced, but the only sub for honey malt I've seen is a Crystal 20-30 and mash at a higher temperature, say 155ish?

Maybe someone that knows more than me will come along and give you better ideas.

Thanks for the tip! If I give it a try I'll be sure to post my results back here

 

[HappiBrew]

Looks wonderful. I love a nice red/orange IPA and Citra is far and away my favorite hop. I think it pairs really well with the pineyness of Simcoe. You got a nice pillowy head on that thing too. I'd like to try this and split the batch. I've been testing wlp001 against Nottingham(dry) on my last few IPAs to see which I like better for the style. This would be a good example.

 

[BmoreBrewer]

I will be trying this in about a month once I get some space. Looks like it will be delicious.