IPA with California Lager yeast, Peaches and Dryhopping

[brewinginct]

I'm designing a beer for a group of people who really like IPAs and fruit flavor. At first I was going to brew an IPA and add peaches/apricots to it, sort of the same idea as the Dogfishhead Aprihop. But then I remembered how delicious Anchor Steam is and it got me thinking...

What about an IPA base/hop profile brewed with a California Lager yeast? Either that or I do a modified steam beer base for the malts and boost up the OG and hops to make it more like a moderately hoppy IPA. Any suggestions either way?

As far as hops go for this. I'm definitely going to be using peaches or at least a peach flavoring. I know that steam beers typically use Northern Brewer, sometimes Cascade. Would those hops work well with the peach flavor/aroma? I figure it might be interesting to mix peaches with a spicy/piney type of hop?

Based off of what I've read it seems like WLP810 is the yeast that I'll go with. I'm assuming that if I use WLP810 then it'll lend a crisp and slightly spicy taste to the beer. Am I off on that assumption?

Lastly, I want to balance the peach aroma with a hint of fresh hops. Any suggestions for dry hopping? I was thinking doing two dry hop additions. 1 oz per addition, 5 days each, probably a mix of a citrus hop and a piney hop?

Any suggestions or comments will be greatly appreciated

 

[scinerd3000]

amarillo has great flavor for this type of thing.... Sounds interesting and if you keep the temp somewhat restrained you may not have as much "spicy" flavor....

 

[McKinley]

Subscribed. I've been thinking of doing something along these lines for a later summer beer.