First IPA recipe

[puravida286]

This will be my 3rd homebrew batch and first experiment with my own recipe...the previous two were kits. I want to make a nice hoppy IPA and have come up with the following ingredients...

5lbs Light DME
2lbs Wheat DME
.5lbs Crystal 40L
.5lbs Carapils
1oz Chinook 60 mins
.5 oz Chinook 45 mins
.5 oz Chinook 30 mins
1 oz Cascade 5 mins
1 oz Cascade dry hopped

There is no real rhyme or reason to it, its just what I thought of throwing together...any suggestions on the hop schedule or grains?

 

[BeanPot Brewery]

Looks good to me...love dry hopping Cascade...very yummy.

 

[puravida286]

Does this seem like enough hops to make for a nice IPA?

 

[Beer Snob]

Here is a extract recipe I posted a little while ago that supposingly clones Dog Fish Head.

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Dogfish Head 60 Minute Clone

8 oz. American Crystal 20°L
8½ lbs. Light LME
⅓ oz. Amarillo (10% AA, 50 minutes)
⅓ oz. Columbus (14% AA, 50 minutes)
⅓ oz. Warrior (15% AA, 50 minutes)
⅓ oz. Amarillo (10% AA, 40 minutes)
⅓ oz. Columbus (14% AA, 40 minutes)
⅓ oz. Warrior (15% AA, 40 minutes)
⅓ oz. Horizon (13% AA, 40 minutes)
⅓ oz. Amarillo (10% AA, 30 minutes)
⅓ oz. Columbus (14% AA, 30 minutes)
⅓ oz. Warrior (15% AA, 30 minutes)
⅓ oz. Horizon (13% AA, 30 minutes)
⅓ oz. Amarillo (10% AA, 15 minutes)
⅓ oz. Columbus (14% AA, 15 minutes)
⅓ oz. Warrior (15% AA, 15 minutes)
⅓ oz. Horizon (13% AA, 15 minutes)
⅓ oz. Amarillo (aroma)
⅓ oz. Columbus (aroma)
⅓ oz. Warrior (aroma)
1 pkg. Wyeast 1272 American Ale II

OG: 1.064
FG: 1.015
SRM: ~8
IBU: 67
ABV: 6.4%

Style: India Pale Ale
Type: Extract w/grain
Size: 5 gallons
Water: will probably use 1 tsp. gypsum
Steep: Grain in bag in brew kettle heated to just before boil over 30 minutes.
Boil: 2 gallons for 60 minutes to SG 1.161
Carbonation: Will prime with ¾ cup invert sugar at bottling

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[puravida286]

Ok I changed it up a little bit...the ingredients are on the way

6lbs Light DME
2lbs Wheat DME
8oz Crystal 20L
8oz Carapils
1 oz Warrior (60 mins)
1 oz Perle (30 mins)
1 oz Perle (15 mins)
1oz Cascade (dry hop)

Those warrior hops pack quite an AA punch, should be plenty of bittering. I hear SNPA uses Perle so I decided to try those out as well. ProMash gives it about 95 IBU's.

 

[puravida286]

and a Muntons Dry Yeast starter

 

[Beer Snob]

Those warrior hops pack quite an AA punch, should be plenty of bittering. I hear SNPA uses Perle so I decided to try those out as well. ProMash gives it about 95 IBU's.

I love Perle.

 

[Blender]

Why did you use 2 pounds of wheat DME? I have never seen quite that much in an IPA recipe.

 

[puravida286]

Just to make the color and flavor a little "lighter" I guess. Again this is my first recipe so I wanted to mix things up a bit...I thought the wheat DME would add a little uniqueness to the beer.