black ipa

how do you get the color and does anyone have a good recipe for a black ipa?

 

I think the idea is to take your favorite IPA recipe and add just enough dark malt (take your pick of chocolate, black patent, or roasted) to turn it black. Personally I don't care for the style; I'd rather blend a little bit of stout into an IPA. (A local pub has started doing blended beers and one of the best is a rye-pa topped with a splash of breakfast stout. Yum.)

 

i posted this a while back:

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/imperial-black-ipa-231634/

i added carafa III the last 10 minutes of the mash. i just bought some midnight wheat and plan on tinkering with that soon

 

Black or brown food coloring works well to get it nice and dark.

 

No.

The light roastiness of some malts (midnight wheat, carafa) are PART of the flavor profile of the beer. It should taste different from a regular IPA/IIPA. Otherwise you could add black food coloring to every beer style and create identical-tasting "new" styles. Plus, adding food coloring to beer (outside of St. Pats) is downright offensive.

 

double post

 

This one came out great, BTW. :rockin: Jet black and a huge hop aroma. Keg kicked last night.

http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator?group=2&item=9986

 

FYI food coloring comment was a joke!

 

Thank god

 

i am still using extract, i would like to know more about mixing beer.

 

If you are doing extract, I think you could probably get away with tossing in some dehusked (special) carafa 3 in the steeped grains to make a black IPA.