The Plan...A house IPA

[LukeD23]

I have brewed 6 different IPAs this past year but I want to really start honing in on a house IPA.

Anyone have an awesome really drinkable IPA recipe they want to share?

I am looking for something around 6%abv so I can drink a few pints of it, 60ish IBUs with a good citrus hop aroma that finishes dry.

I am planning on doing 2 brews a month and one will be the IPA recipe. I will do slight tweaks every month till I get my perfect IPA. Let me know any ideas.

[BDawg]

Here's mine:
http://www.brewtility.com/ViewRecipe.aspx?RecipeID=50

[Fremont Brewer]

I have brewed 6 different IPAs this past year but I want to really start honing in on a house IPA.

Anyone have an awesome really drinkable IPA recipe they want to share?

I am looking for something around 6%abv so I can drink a few pints of it, 60ish IBUs with a good citrus hop aroma that finishes dry.

I am planning on doing 2 brews a month and one will be the IPA recipe. I will do slight tweaks every month till I get my perfect IPA. Let me know any ideas.

I brewed the Green Flash Clone Recipe from Can You Brew it show. That turned out awesome! I brewed one yesterday, Nathan Smith's North Oakland IPA, recipe in Zymuygy. I can't wait to see how that one turns out.

[ChrisKennedy]

Himalayan IPA:

OG:1.066
FG:1.011
5gal

11.5# Rahr Pale Ale Malt or 6.4# Light Dry Malt Extract
.5# Crystal 40L

If all grain, mash at 150F (or whatever your system would require to finish at the target gravity).

Hops: (all pellets)
60min: .75oz Magnum 14% AA
15min: .5oz Simcoe
.5oz Amarillo
.5oz Columbus
0min: .75oz Simcoe
.75oz Amarillo
.75oz Columbus

Dry hop: .75oz Simcoe
.75oz Columbus
.75oz Amarillo

Ferment with WY1728 Scottish Ale, Wy1056 California Ale, WLP001 California Ale, or US05 dry yeast. Make a 2-2.5L starter if using liquid yeast.

I like it with Scottish Ale the best.

[LukeD23]

Cool, I like the looks of those recipes..I did the West Coast IPA clone as well and it was awesome, but a bit bigger than I want for a house IPA. I think that 6%abv range is really great for an everyday drinker, at least for me.

I also was just looking at the Stone IPA clone recipe from BYO magazine. Anyone ever brewed that one?

[PhillyBrewer]

I brewed a Three Floyds Alpha King clone recently and scaled it down a bit. It was fantastic. I think you'd be good with any IPA recipe and scaling down the malt bill to whatever you'd like (and the bittering hops accordingly).

[pfooti]

My house pale ale is pretty close to Chris Kennedy's, except I tend to use centennial instead of columbus and I bitter with warrior. I admit though, that it's not really a "house" pale ale yet; I've brewed it five or six times, and its been different each time in the hop schedule. I played with continuous hopping, 30 minute additions, first-wort hopping, and so on.

[hopshead]

I like a very hoppy but sessionable IPA/pale ale. I made a recipe that I keep on tap all the time. It is lower alcohol but very citrusy and floral like a big IPA, (i am a hopshead). My recipe uses a lot of hops with a combination of Willamette hops (floral and fresh) and a lot of Cascade hops (citrus-grapefruit). The healthy addition of a lot of Wyeast 1318, london ale III, provides a different and interesting flavor ( the yeast isn't very fruity, but different and not as dry as Cal Ale). Recipe below:

Rabbits Run
10-A American Pale Ale
Author: hopshead
Date: 3/27/11



Size: 6.95 gal
Efficiency: 81.2%
Attenuation: 75.0%
Calories: 178.11 kcal per 12.0 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.054 (1.045 - 1.060)
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Terminal Gravity: 1.013 (1.010 - 1.015)
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Color: 7.1 (5.0 - 14.0)
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Alcohol: 5.26% (4.5% - 6.2%)
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Bitterness: 69.3 (30.0 - 45.0)
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Ingredients:
12.0 lb Pale Ale Malt
0.75 lb Wheat Malt
4.0 oz Dark Crystal Malt II
1.0 oz Amarillo (6.9%) - added first wort, boiled 75.0 min
0.25 oz Nugget (11.8%) - added during boil, boiled 60.0 min
2.0 oz Cascade (4.6%) - added during boil, boiled 20.0 min
1.0 oz Willamette (4.8%) - added during boil, boiled 20.0 min
1.0 oz Cascade (4.6%) - added during boil, boiled 10.0 min
1.0 oz Willamette (4.8%) - added during boil, boiled 10.0 min
1.0 ea Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss) - added during boil, boiled 10.0 min
1.0 ea Servo - added during boil, boiled 10.0 min
1.0 oz Cascade (4.6%) - added during boil, boiled 0.0 min
1.0 oz Amarillo (6.9%) - added dry to primary fermenter
1.0 ea WYeast 1318 London Ale III

Schedule:
Ambient Air: 70.0 °F
Source Water: 62.0 °F
Elevation: 500.0 ft

00:03:00 Mash In - Liquor: 4.87 gal; Strike: 161.85 °F; Target: 152.0 °F
00:48:00 Saccharification Rest - Rest: 45.0 min; Final: 151.3 °F
01:00:00 Sparge - First runnings: 0.0 gal sparge @ 170.0 °F, 3.1 gal collected, 5 min; Second Runings: 6.75 gal sparge @ 168.0 °F, 6.75 gal collected, 7 min; Total Runoff: 10.07 gal

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