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Hopefully somebody has what I'm looking for.

I'm trying to find an IPA recipe that leans more towards floral and citrusy than bitter. If you're familiar with Pac NW brews, I'm looking for something along the lines of Double Mountain's Hop Lava or Laurelwood's Workhorse IPA. Any info is appreciated.

Cheers,

Dukester

Welcome to the obsession that is The Brewing Network. What kind of brewing have you been doing? Extract, steeping grains, partial mash, all grain??

I'm not familiar with those beers but in general if an IPA is too bitter then maybe what you want isn't an IPA, or at least not an American IPA.

You could look for an American Pale or Amber Ale recipe and shift a portion of your hop additions to the end of the boil and then dry hop. Less "bitter" more aroma. It is hard to post a recipe without knowing your style and background when it comes to brewing.

THE recipe book is Brewing Classic Style and the companion podcast The Jamil Show.

Anyway, welcome.

If it's floral and citrusy you want then I can recommend 2 hop varieties. Cascade and Vanguard. Cascade is citrusy and vanguard is floral. Just dump in heaps and heaps towards the end of the boil. Starting with 15 minutes left and going til the end.

HopRunner,

Thanks for the welcome. Been listening to The Session for quite a while, just never checked out the forums much.

What I'm shooting for is definately an IPA, just BIG on hop flavor and aroma, just no bitter. The two beers I mentioned are the only two that I've had that fall into that category. I'm sure there are others but I'm not aware of them. I hear Hopworks Urban Brewery has something along those lines as well.

As for me, I'm a PM brewer at the moment. I'm in the process of putting my kit together to make the switch to AG.

Ziggy,

I think you are spot on. Now I just need to find a recipe or two to play with. Thanks for the info.

Cheers,

Dukester

sounds to me like you're just looking for a balnced IPA. Never tried the one you are speaking of , but love dog fish heads 60 and 90 minute IPA. Check out Brewing Classic Styles. Everything I've tried from that book is balanced. He has extract, steeping grain and all grain recipies. One of the best buy you can get. You can try late hop additions 15 min and dry hopping for more hop aroma and lavor. If you put it in for 60 min it dds bitterness and not aroma. also the Jamil show is free and you can listen to his IPA recipie for free.

Hey Dukester

Found this info:
Commercial Description:
Workhorse is a true West Coast IPA, featuring over-the-top hop flavor and aroma. Three separate dry hop additions in the fermenter make this one of our hoppiest beers to date. 7.5% ALC by Volume. 17º Plato O.G. 3º Plato T.G. 80 IBU

» HOP LAVA «
This big, glowing, powerful IPA is packed with assertive Northwest hops that are floral, citrusy and resinous. A healthy dose of Munich malt helps to provide backbone and balance against the hoppy attack. The result? Explosive!
Brewed with Gambrinus Organic Pilsner and Munich Malt,
Centennial and Cascade hops. 7.0% ABV, 75 BU
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I don't have my recipe or Jamil's recipe in front of me but you can get the recipe directly from the Pope here - http://thebrewingnetwork.com/shows/The- ... how/Page-5

This might be it here - http://www.beertools.com/html/recipe.php?view=7497

That will at least give you a place to start. Another great resource it the TastyBrew Calculator. This will let you experiment with different hop additions and see the result on the overall IBU's.

To add to what SouthernBrewLady and Ziggy said:

I'll offer this as a gross oversimplification though. Get Jamil's recipe or any of the millions on the web and move maybe half the 60 minute hop additions to the last 30 and 15 minutes. Add those hops along with all the other hop additions at those times. AND.... Learn how to dry hop your beer. In "general" moving hop additions to later in the boil will make any beer less bitter and more aromatic. It really doesn't sound like that is what those two breweries you listed are doing though. You may just have to experiment with several batches until you get your individual IPA flavor right.

Let us know how it goes.. We're all beer geeks here!

Dude-

Try mine:

http://www.brewtility.com/ViewRecipe.as ... ts=english

Have any of you used Simcoe in an IPA, and if so how did it turn out? I recently had some in Magic Hat's Roxy Rolles and now I can't get enough of it. I am thinking about making Denny's Rye IPA with Simcoe and Amarillo instead of Mt. Hood and Columbus.