Hey so I am thinking of going all grain this summer, and I decided to start making a recipe for a pretty basic IPA, whatcha think?
5 gallon batch
11 lb US 2 row
1 lb Carafoam
1oz Chinook 60min
1.5oz Centennial 10 min
1oz Chinook 5 min
3oz Centennial 1 min
3oz Columbus dry hop (5 days)
Wyeast 1056
EST abv: 6.46%
EST OG: 1.065
EST FG: 1.015
IBU: 72.3
What I am concerned with is having it be too bitter…I LOVE IPAs and hoppy beers, but I don’t want to over do it for a basic IPA, I don’t want to go into the DIPA category (even though I know I am far from it).
That doesn’t look too hoppy to me and if it turns out to be too much the hops will mellow over time. I like a little Crystal in mine, but what you have should be fine.
That looks good to me! I’m a big fan of Chinook all around, both bittering and flavor additions. I just read a recent article about “Hop Bursting”, so the 3 oz of Centennial at flameout looks rather appealing to me. That and I love Centennial.
The only thing you might think about is adding a little, say .5# of some time of crystal malt. Just to give it a little character. 3 oz Columbus is also pretty aggressive for a 6.5% beer, maybe try 2 oz for five days, taste it and see what you think. Just my $.02 though! Enjoy all grain, it tastes so much better IMO!
i agree with adding a little light crystal malt or maybe some toasted malt to the grist to give it some complexity, but on the other hand i’ve had some fine SMaSH IPA’s.
Grist is more of an APA, some crystal (5%) for sweetness and additional sweet malt complexity and maybe a little color would bring it more to the American IPA style. You’re just over 1:1 IBU/OG so that is normal enough. People like the bite of Chinook for bittering, I personally like my smooth Magnum a little better but I am working with Chinook more.
I’d also blend the late additions and use the blend at each step.
My IPA has a half pound of Carapils and a half pound of Crystal malt in addition to the 11 pounds of 2 row. Sometimes I add .25oz of Carafa 400º to darken the color a hair… (1-2º) Bittering is Simcoe…which is running out for the year btw. (pellets)
That looks delicious. Here is another vote for crystal 60; preferably around 5-6% of the grain bill. You could swap wheat malt for the carapils/foam @ 5% to boost head retention/formation. I’m a munich and vienna fanboy and typically add 7-8% of each to the mix. I like what it does for the malt profile. You could also add a bit of aromatic malt to make things a bit more interesting ;D