Lemon Drop RyePA Recipe

Beer Recipes
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This is my newest experimental IPA recipe.  I’ve never personally worked with Lemon Drop hops.  If any of you have experience with these, your input would be much appreciated.  Would you make any changes?  This recipe is for a 5-gallon batch.

GRAINS:
7.15 lb - Pearl Malt (51%)
3.85 lb - Pilsner Malt (27%)
2.38 lb - German - Rye (17%)
.5 lb - German - CaraFoam (3.5%)
0.21 lb - Canadian - Honey Malt (1.5%)

.28lb Rice Hulls

MASH:
125@20min
155@60min
157@20min

BOIL:
90 Minute Boil

0.5 oz - Apollo, Type: Pellet, AA: 20, Use: First Wort, IBU: 20.39
0.5 oz - CTZ, Type: Pellet, AA: 15.5, Use: First Wort, IBU: 15.8
0.5 oz - Citra, Type: Pellet, AA: 11, Use: Boil for 10 min, IBU: 6.71
0.5 oz - Citra, Type: Pellet, AA: 11, Use: Boil for 5 min, IBU: 3.69
.5 oz - Citra, Type: Pellet, AA: 11, Use: Boil for 1 min, IBU: 1.6
1 oz - lemon drop, Type: Pellet, AA: 7, Use: Boil for 1 min, IBU: 1.02
.5 oz - Citra , Type: Pellet, AA: 11, Use: Dry Hop for 7 days
1 oz - lemon drop, Type: Pellet, AA: 7, Use: Dry Hop for 7 days

YEAST:
Wyeast - American Ale 1028

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I love Lemon Drop hops (see Stone Delicious IPA) .  1/ You don’t need 28% wheat - personally,I’d add that amount as 2 row to the total.    2/  Lemon Drop hops aren’t quite as intense as Citra so you could leave as is, or up the Lemon Drop/ reduce the Citra to have more balance. Tasty either way.

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+1

I reduce or remove the white wheat-

Citra may over power the nose in uiur dryhop additions losing the lemon drop

I dry hopped an IPA with Citra and Bemla (very similar to you addition ammounts)last year and the Belma was hard to dectect

4

Are you doing a beta glucan rest?  Just curious. I have done several rye IPAs with varying ranges of rye (12%-22%) and usually do when i hit 18% or more

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I had some second thoughts on my original recipe and made a few changes above.  What do you think of the updated version?