English-ish IPA

[Monkeybrew]

How does this recipe look?

Planning on mashing at 66C and fermenting with S-04.



Cheers

MB

[far9410]

It looks fine mate, I have to wonder if 30 min additions make much difference though, I'm moving towards early (60 mins) and late (10 mins or FO steep)they seem to have the most effect.

[seymour]

It looks fine mate, I have to wonder if 30 min additions make much difference though, I'm moving towards early (60 mins) and late (10 mins or FO steep)they seem to have the most effect.

I think that's good advice, generally speaking, however I've learned with Cascade especially, 30-40 minutes is best. You get some bitterness and some exquisite marmalady/citrusy flavor (more akin to better UK varieties) without the overwhelming grapefruit and pine resin stuff (which is an immediate giveaway of American hops). I know yours were grown in New Zealand, but you know what I mean.

I think this recipe looks very good indeed.

[Barley Water]

That recipe looks pretty good to me however if I were making it I would probably get the bitterness up to at least 50IBU and maybe even a bit higher. I however look at recipe forumulation through the prism of entering the stuff in competitions so take all that for what it's worth. As a point of refernce, I did really well with an English IPA in a very large contest recently and I estimated the bitterness at about 50IBU on a 1.065 O.G. beer. Interestingly, my take on the beer was that it was not bitter enough so I was very surprised I did so well. Of course, there were a bunch of Americans judging so it's entirely possible we don't have the style quite dialed in.

[Monkeybrew]

It looks fine mate, I have to wonder if 30 min additions make much difference though, I'm moving towards early (60 mins) and late (10 mins or FO steep)they seem to have the most effect.

I think that's good advice, generally speaking, however I've learned with Cascade especially, 30-40 minutes is best. You get some bitterness and some exquisite marmalady/citrusy flavor (more akin to better UK varieties) without the overwhelming grapefruit and pine resin stuff (which is an immediate giveaway of American hops). I know yours were grown in New Zealand, but you know what I mean.

I think this recipe looks very good indeed.

If I'm honest Seymour, I think that I got the idea for the 30min Cascade addition from a recipe that you have posted on Jims

This recipe will probably be AG#3, followed by a Porter for AG#4, but next up is a Galaxy Amber that will get brewed in a couple of weeks time.

After 1 odd duff bottle of AG#1, the rest are going down well, too well infact

MB

[Dave S]

I recently did an IPA using MO and small amount of Crystal, fuggles and EKG with some extra EKG at 10 mins to 50 IBU. Dry hopped with 100 g Cascade. O.G. 1056, (should have been 1059 but never mind) and pitched with S-04. Had a couple of glasses last week and it was bloody lovely. However, next time I might do the same recipe but substitute the Cascade with say 20-30 g EKG just to see what it would be like with all-UK hops. Although I love the citrus aroma of cascade, it's not typical of a true English IPA. Ah, choice, where shall we go next?

[seymour]

Dave S, I like the way you think, er...drink.

[Dave S]

Dave S, I like the way you think, er...drink.

[Rookie]

I recently did an IPA using MO and small amount of Crystal, fuggles and EKG with some extra EKG at 10 mins to 50 IBU. Dry hopped with 100 g Cascade. O.G. 1056, (should have been 1059 but never mind) and pitched with S-04. Had a couple of glasses last week and it was bloody lovely. However, next time I might do the same recipe but substitute the Cascade with say 20-30 g EKG just to see what it would be like with all-UK hops. Although I love the citrus aroma of cascade, it's not typical of a true English IPA. Ah, choice, where shall we go next?

Yes on using the goldings instead of cascade. 1.056 instead of 1.059 is not enough to worry about.