IPA Grain bill

[Razorback_Jack]

Hello. I have some bulk hops of various varieties, and I’m wanting to make a few 5-gallon batches to showcase them. What would you suggest as a good grain bill for IPA’s? I’ve got some Merkur, Magnum, Horizon, and Eroica hops I’ll be trading out for bittering, and am shooting for IBU of around 70-80.
Cheers!

 

[Sammy86]

2-Row or MO for base say 75-85%
Victory or Vienna Malt 10-15%
Crystal Malt of your choosing (personally I like 20L or 40L 5%)

 

[Razorback_Jack]

2-Row or MO for base say 75-85%
Victory or Vienna Malt 10-15%
Crystal Malt of your choosing (personally I like 20L or 40L 5%)

Maybe this:
11lbs MO
1.5lb Victory
8oz 40L

Too much Victory, or no?

 

[Sammy86]

Maybe this:
11lbs MO
1.5lb Victory
8oz 40L

Too much Victory, or no?

Looks solid. I like that 40L...gives you some sweetness without being too overpowering for an IPA or Pale IMO.

Victory is fine, you could reduce to a pound...it's gonna give you some bready/malt backbone to the MO.

 

[Dgallo]

90% - 2row
7% - wheat malt or carapils
3% - 20-40L malt

here is my recipe on Single Hop Pale Ales that I brew when I want to try a new hop out. It’s basically an ipa but you can easily adjust it to be what you’re looking for
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/base-pale-ale-recipe-for-single-hop-beers.673718/

 

[thehaze]

These days for me, it's 100% base malt: either a quality Pilsner malt like Bestmalz, Weyermann, either Low colour Golden Promise/Golden Promise/Pearl or a combo of these.

 

[eric19312]

I used this recipe to try out about 15 different hop varieties over the years:
78% 2-row
14% MO
8% C15-20
target OG 1.056

lately I've been on brut IPA kick and I am liking 95% pilsner and 5% C20