Oops...Session IPA

[malzig]

It’s the 2g in the 62g that really make it work.

[tschmidlin]

What can I say, I use a gram scale to measure my additions

Don’t discount those extra 2g!  Should have been 4g though

[malzig]

@tschmidlin

What can I say, I use a gram scale to measure my additions

Don’t discount those extra 2g!  Should have been 4g though

Absolutely, 2.19 oz. just can’t compare to 2.26 oz.! 
However, I appear to prefer greater precision since I use hundredths of an ounce…

[AmandaK]

@blatz

@AmandaK

I’m 2 batches into trying to find the perfect Session IPA recipe. Call me a sinner, I guess!  ;D

FYI - kelsey mcnair’s west coast bitter has gotten rave reviews - its in my soon-to-brew folder.

Excellent. Thanks Paul!

[majorvices]

@majorvices

@tschmidlin

Along the same lines as Major, here’s the hopping schedule for my last 10 gallon batch of IPA.  Not IIPA, just a 1.060 IPA.

28g Cascade (5.2%) FWH
50g Amarillo (6.2%) 30 min
85g Cascade (5.2%) 30 min
62g Amarillo (6.2%) 10 min
70g Cascade (5.2%) 10 min
60g Amarillo (6.2%) 0 min
62g Cascade (5.2%) 0 min
30g Simcoe (13.0%) 0 min
30g Amarillo (6.2%) Dry Hop (each carboy)
30g Simcoe (13.0%) Dry Hop (each carboy)
30g Simcoe (13.0%) Dry Hop (each keg)

I don’t think this is hoppy enough either.

Grams??? I have no idea how much hops that really is.

The tru genius of the recipe is the “85 grams” of cascade back at 30 minutes. A lone odd number in a forest of evens.

Or maybe it should have been 86?

[tschmidlin]

@majorvices

The tru genius of the recipe is the “85 grams” of cascade back at 30 minutes. A lone odd number in a forest of evens.

Or maybe it should have been 86?

;D
I write down the actual weights added. I know for a fact the guy who packages the hops isn’t very careful weighing them out.

[micsager]

We brew a session IPA, and it sells quite nicely.  Plus, just yesterday in South Seattle we were in Two Beers, and their ISA (India session ale) is very good.  We walked out with a growler full.

[donsmitty]

@hmbrewing

End result? An absolutely delicious 4.5% IPA with loads of hop flavor and aroma. OH! and no, no secondary - four weeks in primary, then straight to the keg. I even dry hopped in the primary.

Nothing wrong with that…check out Founders All Day IPA - Session Ale at 4.7% and the flavor is excellent.

[denny]

I think I may start a campaign to come up with  new name for the overhopped APAs that people are referring to as session IPAs.  AFAIAC, calling them either APA or IPA makes it harder to define what an APA or IPA is.

[jeffy]

@denny

I think I may start a campaign to come up with  new name for the overhopped APAs that people are referring to as session IPAs.  AFAIAC, calling them either APA or IPA makes it harder to define what an APA or IPA is.

I’ve found some difficulty with this when judging, too.  Suddenly a very good APA is not hoppy enough for a lot of my judging partners.  Sierra Nevada Pale Ale seems too tame.  I am not complaining about new beer styles, I just think we need a new name.

[denny]

@jeffy

@denny

I think I may start a campaign to come up with  new name for the overhopped APAs that people are referring to as session IPAs.  AFAIAC, calling them either APA or IPA makes it harder to define what an APA or IPA is.

I’ve found some difficulty with this when judging, too.  Suddenly a very good APA is not hoppy enough for a lot of my judging partners.  Sierra Nevada Pale Ale seems too tame.  I am not complaining about new beer styles, I just think we need a new name.

Thank you for joining the Campaign for Accurate Beer Naming!  ;)  You can say that a pig is a poodle, but that doesn’t make it one!

[malzig]

@denny

I think I may start a campaign to come up with  new name for the overhopped APAs that people are referring to as session IPAs.  AFAIAC, calling them either APA or IPA makes it harder to define what an APA or IPA is.

I don’t think the problem is in calling these beers IPAs; the idea is to make them taste like IPAs, so they are IPAs.  Also, there is a wealth of tradition of IPAs in this alcohol range.  I see the source of the problem in calling beers hopped like IPAs, APAs, or hoppy beers with the alcohol level of a Double IPA, IPAs.

[drewbrews (DrewG)]

I brew mine to 4.2% ABV, which is smaller than the low end of the scale for an APA. I like the “ISA” name, haven’t heard that one before.

[hmbrewing]

I’ve officially named it my “Upside Down IPA” and I pitch it to all my guests as a “Session IPA”. You can’t stop me. 

[bluesman]

@hmbrewing

I’ve officially named it my “Upside Down IPA” and I pitch it to all my guests as a “Session IPA”. You can’t stop me. 

…and that’s the beauty of our great hobby.  I just hope your using a blue cooler.

[richardt]

Dear Naming Committee:

Since APA, EPA, and IPA are already defined and taken, may I suggest:

XPA = eXtra Pale Ale = “session(able)” IPA.

I define an XPA as “a pale ale that’s extra hoppy (prominent hop flavor and aroma) and extra dry (like an IPA).”  There should be some leeway with respect to hop bitterness which can range from clean and restrained like some APA’s hopped with Magnum or Warrior to boldly prominent like some IPA’s that have been hopped with Columbus, for example.  Having said that, I prefer the restrained, clean bittering approach when trying to showcase hop flavor and aromas.

[wactuary]

I like SIPA.  It sounds like sippah, which kind of works for the drinkable session nature of it.

You can SIPA all day long.