American IPA Base Pale Ale Recipe for Single hop Beers

[Dgallo]

Can't wait to brew this recipe this coming weekend with YCH Mosaic hops. Thanks for the advice! and thanks to @Dgallo for the great recipe.

You’re welcome. Enjoy it!

 

[1bottlerocket]

Did you drop it at 0.25lbs? or stick at 0.5lbs?

I'll also add that we got better efficiency than expected with the grain bill so the abv was slightly over the higher end of the style guide range. It was a nice beer.

We have another festival this weekend and we are bringing 8 different beers, including a keg of this recipe. Depending on how it goes we may bring it to two others as well. It is a real solid recipe that can showcase certain hops well.

 

[Gel999]

When is the perfect timing for dry hopping this recipe? My packaging method is bottling after 2 weeks of fermentation, and not going to do cold crash.

 

[Dgallo]

I ended up brewing this again with some some changes to the grain bill to utilize my homegrown Columbus. Same amount of wheat but I swapped out the biscuit for Caramunich 1 and subbed 2 lbs of Basemalt for Vienna.

Used 24oz of Wet Columbus hops
-0.5 oz of Columbus t90 at 30
-4 oz of wet Columbus at 15
-4oz of wet Columbus at 5
-4oz of wet Columbus at FO
-12oz wet Columbus WP at 170 for 30 mins

Fermented US05 at 65*f
Fined it with Biofine

 

[Airborneguy]

Without running through hundreds of posts…

Has anyone brewed this replacing the wheat with rye?

 

[Dgallo]

Without running through hundreds of posts…

Has anyone brewed this replacing the wheat with rye?

I don’t recall anyone doing that but should be fine. Get a touch of spice in there.

 

[Knightshade]

Its been about 5 months since I've even thought about brewing, so I'm going to start up again with this recipe. Pretty sure I've got a sealed bag of Idaho7 in the freezer that will be perfect having never used that hop before.

 

[Gary25]

I ended up brewing this again with some some changes to the grain bill to utilize my homegrown Columbus. Same amount of wheat but I swapped out the biscuit for Caramunich 1 and subbed 2 lbs of Basemalt for Vienna.

Used 24oz of Wet Columbus hops
-0.5 oz of Columbus t90 at 30
-4 oz of wet Columbus at 15
-4oz of wet Columbus at 5
-4oz of wet Columbus at FO
-12oz wet Columbus WP at 170 for 30 mins

Fermented US05 at 65*f
Fined it with Biofine
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Gorgeous hops! I have hop envy! I’m too far south to grow them here in Georgia unfortunately.

I just read through the whole thread and will make a variation of this today. I like the single hop focus and will probably go with Vic Secret as I have a bunch on hand. Thanks for putting this together.

 

[wepeeler]

Here's an all Cascade Pale Ale with almost the same @Dgallo grist (No biscuit. Added 10oz Carafoam). 1.058 OG 1.010 FG. US05. Lovely beer. Forgot to dry hop, but this is tasting really good after a week in the keg. This pour was on Sunday, 4 days in the keg. It's fully carbed now and clearing up nicely!

 

[Shenanigans]

I have 200g/7oz of Apollo hops that I'm not sure what to do with.
Never used them before, anyone try them in this or something similar?

 

[IslandLizard]

I have 200g/7oz of Apollo hops that I'm not sure what to do with.
Never used them before, anyone try them in this or something similar?

I've not brewed with Apollo, but had a fantastic Apollo single hop IPA by one of our local craft breweries, a few years ago. So it's very possible to use flavorful "bittering hops" as late and dry hops.

Not that Apollo compares to Galaxy and sorts like that, those are typically also very high %AA hops, used well outside of bittering applications.

Try a small, 2-3 gallon batch?

 

[redrocker652002]

Having not read thru 8 pages of the thread, just will throw in that I have done very much the same. Morebeer has a kit that is a single hop experiment kit that I have used as my base. It is 10lbs of 2 row and 12oz of 15l. I have used Cascade, Citra, Motueka, Chinook and now have a Lemon Drop ready to bottle. I have enjoyed them all, with the Chinook being a bit on the bitter side. I think it is a great way to see how the different hops affect the flavor. I might fool with different grains to replace the 15L just for the heck of it as I have some leftover grains that are smaller amounts. These will be a go to when I get a multiple tap set up.

 

[Dangeruss]

My spouse's co-worker had centennial hops growing and gave me about 6 oz. Happen to have an 1oz of pellet used that in the fw and 20 hop and used the rest at the flame out. Been in the fermenter for a week now had a cock sample and this is going to be a fine beer. Thx for the recipe.