Looking for my first all grain recipe

[seph]

Fellow home brewers, I am planning on taking the plunge this weekend and am looking for an easy, yet tasty, all grain IPA.

I have four fermenters of saison going in my basement from a group brew day a week and a half ago. I plan to pitch my IPA onto the yeast cake of the saison, and transfer one of the fermenters of saison to a secondary vessel (but not in that order).

Does anyone have a good recipe that I can take to the LHBS this weekend and come home with a great belgian IPA brew day?

Thanks in advance,

Seph

 

[DSorenson]

I'm not feeling the whole pitching onto saison yeast cake: I'd go for Nottingham's- no starter. A simple and effective grain bill for a west coast ipa could be something like this:

12 lbs American pale malt
1 lb caramel malt (40 lovibond)

Centennial, cascade and Columbus hops are safe choices- it's an ipa so let freedom ring. Simple grain bills are effective especially for showcasing hops.

 

[Brew-Jay]

One of my first all grain (BIAB) recipes used Belgian Saison yeast. It turned out pretty good.

9 lbs 2-Row
5 lbs Wheat Malt
1 lb Crystal-40

1oz Summit, 50min
1oz Liberty, 15 min
1oz Willamette, 5 min
2oz Cascade Dry hops

I mashed 60 minutes at 154* for a medium body.

 

[stpug]

This might be in-line with what you're planning:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f36/stone-cali-belgique-clone-380526/#post4775216

When I've had cali-belgique I've always picked up on a lot of fruity yeast esters, which are not only in-line with belgian yeasts in general, but very much so when referring to saison yeasts.

HTH!