IPA help

[HLA91]

Hi All

I am looking for a nice hoppy bitter or malty IPA recipe to use up my left over hops. In total I have 60g Challenger, 80g East kent Goldings, and 85 g of Fuggles.
I am not a huge fan of golden ales I find them a bit too lagery and bland, I like a nice malt background, or in the case of Citra IPA (The only IPA other that Proper Job IPA, that I really enjoy) a non-subtle hop, but I need to expand my palette so any ideas? Preferably 3.5-4.5% ?
There is a recipe for English IPA in my greg hughes book, what about adding 400g of Munich to give it a bit more of the malty taste?

Thanks

HLA91

[Piscator]

Hi HLA,

What yeast do you plan to use and what grains have you got available?
This will help folks make appropriate suggestions.

Suggest Notty for a hoppy bitter or S04 for a malty IPA.
Personally I'm not keen on crystal malt so would make a malty IPA type ale using pale malt with a decent chunk of either munich or caramalt for an OG of around 1.040 - 1.045. I'd bitter this with Challenger and use Fuggles for flavour and aroma with a generous but not crazy late addition for an overall IBU of about 25-30 so that the malt can shine through.
Since I don't like crystal for a hoppy bitter I would use a similar base but adding some choc malt and/or amber malt for colour to a similar OG as above. I'd hop that with EKG or Challenger for bittering and a healthy dose of a blend of either EKG + Fuggle or EKG + Challenger as a late addition for an overall IBU of 35-45.

Thats just my 2p worth - I'm sure with those base ingrdients there will be LOADS of suggestions

Cheers
Steve

[HLA91]

HI Steve,

Should have lsited my available ingredients, oops
Yeast = US05 or NBS Ale 2
Grains = Munich, Crystal, Torr Wheat, Choc, Pale Choc, Carapils, Carafa Type 1, Cara Munich Type 2, Flaked Maize, Biscuit, I should have a minimum of 500g & up to 1kg of all of those listed.
With the warm weather I am leaning towards a Malty (basically not too lagery if that makes sense) IPA rather than a bitter something more summery about it.

[MTW]

I've really liked my recent 9% Munich I, 9% Caravienna, 3% wheat and the rest Maris Otter, and have found it to give a really nice malt base for a hoppy ipa, even with the hop-forward US-05.

You're calling it an IPA, but with a low IBU level and fairly low alcohol, so we're probably not after the same thing. I'd still recommend some combination of a Cara malt and the Munich, based on my brews so far.

[HLA91]

I have just seen English IPA in Greg Hughes book.
Pale malt 5.8kg
Crystal 145g
Challenger 70g at start
Golding 34 @ 15
Golding 35 @ 0
60 ibu

What about some topaz hops only as I picked some up from MM in at the end and also using 300g Munich? And using beer smith to knock the abv down from 5.7 to 4%?????

[Piscator]

I've really liked my recent 9% Munich I, 9% Caravienna, 3% wheat and the rest Maris Otter, and have found it to give a really nice malt base for a hoppy ipa, even with the hop-forward US-05.

You're calling it an IPA, but with a low IBU level and fairly low alcohol, so we're probably not after the same thing. I'd still recommend some combination of a Cara malt and the Munich, based on my brews so far.

MTW that sounds like a nice grist, I might try something similar myself with some sort of floral/zesty hop combo

[Rick_UK]

My basic IPA recipe is as follows which is very flexible:
Pale Malt 90%
Crystal 5%
Wheat malt 5%

Bittering hop to 40 - 60 IBU
Choice of late hops (Goldings, Styrian, Citra, Amarillo etc)

Clean fermenting yeast - Girvin, Fullers, S04/05

Personally I prefer an English IPA with a bit of maltyness and not overbearing hop flavours as per the US styles.

I also like a touch of fresh ginger on occasion in an IPA.....

Rick

[HLA91]

What about this, somewhere on the border between Pale ale and IPA

3.5kg MO
0.2kg Wheat
0.3kg Munich

44g Challenger 8% 70min
22g Goldings 6.4% 15min
22g Golding 6.4% 0min
30g Topaz 0min


Thoughts?