Blood Orange IPA?

[jakis]

Anyone ever make a blood orange ipa before? Anyone have a recipe for one.

 

[rodwha]

I'm curious what you are contemplating.

I've wondered about using a little grape fruit zest (I hate grape fruit, but seem t like the taste in my IPA's) but I'm afraid I'd ruin a batch of IPA, which isn't cheap.

 

[jakis]

A local brewery called bellwoods brewed a delicious blood orange ipa a few years ago so I've always wanted to try and make one. It will be a 1 gallon batch to see how it turns out

 

[rodwha]

Did they use the juice or did they zest the peels? Any idea?

 

[cabron99]

I made an IPA with an ounce or two of bitter orange peel in the last fifteen minutes. VERY good.

 

[jakis]

I made an IPA with an ounce or two of bitter orange peel in the last fifteen minutes. VERY good.

Do you remember the recipe? What kind of hops were used?

 

[cannman]

I would use Zythos hops. A+ on the citrus scale! Mmmm....

 

[jakis]

Do you remember the recipe? What hops were used?

 

[jakis]

Oops sorry about that

 

[cabron99]

Do you remember the recipe? What kind of hops were used?

20 lbs 6.1 oz Pale Ale Malt 2-Row (Briess) (3.5 SRM) Grain 1 63.8 %
5 lbs 7.5 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (20.0 SRM) Grain 2 17.1 %
2 lbs 0.7 oz Carapils (Briess) (1.5 SRM) Grain 3 6.4 %
2 lbs 0.6 oz Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 4 6.4 %

Mash Steps Name Description Step Temperature Step Time
Mash In Add 10.35 gal of water at 161.1 F 148.0 F 75 min
Batch sparge with 2 steps (0.46gal, 7.22gal) of 168.0 F water

Boil Wort
Add water to achieve boil volume of 13.44 gal
Estimated pre-boil gravity is 1.071 SG

Boil Ingredients Amt Name Type # %/IBU
1 lb Sugar, Table (Sucrose) (1.0 SRM)
2.84 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min
1.82 oz Chinook [13.00 %] - Boil 15.0 min
0.50 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 mins) Fining 8 -

Steeped Hops
2.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 0.0 min
2.00 oz Chinook [13.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 0.0 min

I also use a hop-jack to dry hop the keg with 2 oz each before serving. This recipe will get you in the ball park. I generally ad-lib little; that's how the bitter orange got in there. I think it was 2 oz for the last 15.

 

[beernbourbon]

Here's an entire thread dedicated to one.....comes out pretty tasty.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f69/blood-moon-ipa-471019/

 

[jakis]

Ya I like that recipe and making a 5 gallon batch of it right now but it doesn't include any actual citrus.

 

[donovanlambright]

You might find MoreBeer's M-80 IPA kit interesting. Calls for three cut up oranges added to the fermenter. Haven't brewed it myself so can't speak to whether it's any good but the reviews seem to be positive.

 

[jakis]

Because of schedule gonna dryhop for 9 days. Is this a really bad idea?