Looking for a Dark IPA extract kit

[agbrewer03]

My first batch (Williams Brown Ale) will be bottled tonight, so I am looking for my next batch.

I want to go with a Dark IPA. However, I am having a hard time (probably b/c I'm a newbie) finding a good extract kit. Ideally, I'd like one with grains to steep (expand my horizons a hair, haha) and require only primary fermentation. The Dark IPA from northernbrewer highly recommends secondary, I prefer to jsut do primary for now.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[hbtasdfg]

My guess is you could find a dark beer kit intended to be a non-IPA with a relatively neutral flavor profile and doctor it up with extra hops and some grains and extra extract to make a dark ipa like style

or mix a regular IPA kit with some mix of light and dark malt extracts and hops- don't use too much dark malt extract or overboil too many grains or you will add too many unfermentables, i made that mistake one time.

 

[hbtasdfg]

oh yeah and don't worry about a secondary. as long as your gravity is stable and you are careful about not disturbing the yeast too much when you bottle it will be good

 

[palys2]

I've done Northern Brewer's Black IPA extract kit. It was my first brew, and it came out very good. I did a secondary fermentation, but it isn't absolutely necessary.

 

[Sir-Hops-A-Lot]

You can just order their kit and skip the secondary.

One thing you may want to think about is whether you want a dark IPA with English hops or American hops. This is a really a wide open style.

I brewed an extract recipe (Palalia India Ale) and added 1# of Roasted barely instead of 1# of Toasted Barley (my bad). It was jet black and it tasted delicious, especially after aging. I made a DIPA by error. I would do 1/4# of roasted and 1/4# chocolate malt next time with an ounce of Cascade as drop hop.

I would suggest that you dry hop your DIPA. The darkness of the beer always for a lot more hoppiness without overwhelming the taste buds.