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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.

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

LukeD23 wrote: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.

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.

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?

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).

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.

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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