Thin body (Northern Brewer Kama Citra)

[njohnsoncs]

I brewed the Northern Brewery Kama Citra AG (https://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/allgrain/AG-KamaCitra.pdf) and bottled 2 weeks ago. I tried the first bottle and the head was big, aroma strong, and had a good hoppy forward taste. However, the backend taste was a little watery and body was thin.

I was a little low on the OG (I hit 1.047 and target was 1.050) but I wouldn't think this would make a big difference in body. This is a session IPA but still I would think the body to be a bit bigger.

Any ideas on what could have caused the thin body? I followed the recipe exactly and only added a campden tablet to treat my water and whirfloc tablet to clarify.

 

[thehaze]

Session beers will always suffer from a thin,ner body. It's not easy to brew a session beer with lots of aroma and flavour and body on top of that. IPAs should not have body ( not enough that you would notice it to that extent ) unless we're talking NE styles, which are a combination of things, where the mouthfeel is a different thing that what an " IPA " meant until a few years ago.

Better body in smaller beers can be obtained by mashing high at 154-155F, using Rye malt and some flaked oats/barley. The Crystal on its own will not provide the " body " you're looking for.

 

[Oldskewl]

I brewed that recipe with a pound of oats added and was a pretty happy with it

 

[Bowen1911]

More carbonation makes a thin body feel better. Just drink bud light and see what I mean.

 

[Lefou]

Highly diastatic grain bills can result in highly fermentable worts that will attenuate well due to the abundance of simple sugars. A fix would be substituting with Carapils, pale ale malt, and an extra portion of C40/60 while raising the mash temps slightly.