American IPA School's in Session

rgreenberg2000 · Feb 29, 2016

School's in Session IPA

OG - 1.052
FG - 1.010
IBU - 50.5
Batch Size - 5.25 gal
Mash - 60 min @ 152
Boil - 60 min

9 lbs Pale 2-row
1 lb Carapils
1 oz Magnum (60 min)
3 oz Cascade - Whirlpool @ 180, 30 min
2 oz Amarillo - Whirlpool @ 180, 30 min
1 oz Amarillo - Dry Hop @ 7 days
1 oz Cascade - Dry Hop @ 7 days
1 oz Simcoe - Dry Hop @ 7 days

1.5L starter, WLP 001 (California Ale)

I'm really quite happy with this one, even though I jumped the gun on consumption prior to full carbonation (has been on 12 psi for about 4 days.) Really well balanced malt & bitterness, dry citrus finish. Exactly what I was going for with a lower than average ABV for an IPA these days, but with great hop flavor and aroma. Ended up at 5.5% as I overshot my OG by .003, and my FG by .001. This will be a fantastic summer IPA!!

rgreenberg2000 · Mar 15, 2016

This one is still going down great! It could use just a bit more body now that it's carbed completely, and, of course, the hop aroma is fading a bit (may drop some in the keg.) Finally snapped a pic, hopefully Google Photos will allow it to appear!

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If you happen to brew this one up, I'd love to hear how you like it, and, especially, how you'd tweak it!

Rich

chrisisnapping · Mar 29, 2016

I may have to try this out. Currently have a session IPA fermenting that is similar to this, just subbed pils in for 2-row, and went with centennial, citra, cascade, bittered to 23ibu.

rgreenberg2000 · Mar 30, 2016

I haven't brewed any batches with pilsner malt. May have to work a recipe into the rotation to see how it compares. Care you share your session IPA recipe?

Let me know if you brew mine up!

Rich

chrisisnapping · Mar 31, 2016

It was a 3.5g batch (around 4.65g for mash-in, so 3.25 to fermenter)

6lb (95.2%) pilsner
4.8oz (4.8%) Cara-pils
.40oz Galenda at 30m for 22.9IBU
1oz each citra, cascade, centennial hopstand 30m at 170
1oz each citra,cascade,centennial dry hop
S-05

70% efficiency OG at 1.047 (I hit 1.048)

This was the first non-smash recipe that I formulated and tweaked it a lot. If I redo it I would swap some of the pils for wheat, or maybe add 1-2lbs of wheat to the current to make it a non-session beer. I would also up the hops. Depending on what happens with the batch in the keg now, I'll be hoping to have this tapped mid next week. Then I think I'll try yours, been wanting to do something with amarillo and simcoe.

rgreenberg2000 · Mar 31, 2016

Thanks, Chris! I've logged this into Beersmith and scaled it to a half batch (2.5g). I'm probably going to sub a bit of my 2-row for wheat in the IPA I'm brewing this weekend (assuming I can get down to MoreBeer in Los Altos tomorrow.)

Appreciate the recipe!

R