IPA recipe help

[brices121]

I am going to try and brew an IPA in March and I would like to sort out the recipe so I can get all the ingredients. I would like to use BELMA, Cascade, and possible Cenntenial or Citra. Haven't decided what the IBU will be but i am planning on using BELMA for both bittering and aromatic. the other additions will be later or dry hop. Right now I have a rough grain bill set up that will yield me a gravity of 1062. Any suggestions?

2-row 80%
Vienna 8%
Clover honey 8%
60L 4%

 

[aiptasia]

Belma's a fine hop and it will play nicely with any of the "C" hops. I would just suggest a quarter ounce of cascade and either the centennial or citra at 20 for a flavoring hop, and then a repeat at 10, with one final massive hop addition of Belma at flameout or dryhop. I had a buddy of mine just hook me up with about a half pound of leaf Belma and 2 ounces of pellet. He brewed a SMaSH IPA with it just to get the flavor profile of the hop and Belma has some good mango, citrus and grapefruit flavor notes. The aroma, however, screams strawberry starburst fruit chews.

When i'm going to brew with it, i'll be using the pellets for bittering at 60 and then just hops bursting with the rest. I'll be putting about four ounces of leaf hop in at zero minutes and letting them whirlpool in the hot wort for 45 minutes before cooling down the wort. I prefer this method to dry hopping. Less risk of infection and oxidation as well.

 

[brices121]

I have a half a pound of Belma and Cascade so I can play around with those. I've only dry hopped once and I ended up with a gusher infection so I will heed your advice and add at flame out. I think I'll follow your advice and put together the rest of the recipe tonight.

 

[brices121]

Alright here goes

All grain single infusion (assume 65% efficency (what can I say it is my 3rd AG))


Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Boil Size: 6.00 gal
Estimated OG: 1.062 SG
Estimated FG: 1.012
Estimated Color: 7.6 SRM
Estimated IBU: 71.1 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 65.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
10.00 lb Pale Malt grain (3.6 MCU) 80%
1.00 lb Vienna Malt (3.5 MCU) 8%
0.50 lb US Caramel malt 60L (6.0 MCU) 4%
1.00 lb Honey (0.4 MCU) 8%

1.00 oz Belma [9.8%] (60 min) 49.8 IBU
1.00 oz Belma [9.8%] (10 min) 10.8 IBU
1.00 oz US Cascade [5.3%] (10 min) 5.9 IBU
0.50 oz Centennial [8.5%] (10 min) 4.7 IBU

1.00 oz Belma [9.8%] (0 min) 0 IBU
0.50 oz US Cascade [5.3%] (0 min) 0 IBU
0.50 oz Centennial [8.5%] (0 min) 0 IBU



Updated to fit advice and copied template someone else used for recipe.

 

[ApothecaryBrewing]

I would push the majority of your additions to 20 minutes or less. 1 Addition around 60-45 for bittering to get you in the 40-50 IBU range then the rest at the end (20 or less) for a flavor and aroma bomb.

But I am biased because i live in a hop-soaked world.

 

[TopherM]

FYI, for future reference, there is a "recipes and ingredients" subforum that's specifically for recipe help

 

[brices121]

ApotheCary - I've upped the 60 min addition to 1 oz (50 IBU), and then combined my 20 and 30 min additions and moved it up to 10 min. And upped my Belma to 1 oz. The flame out I will do .5 oz at flame out for Centennial and Cascade and up Belma to 1 oz. I will take TopherM's advice and rewrite the recipe with the recipe sub-form.