Thornbridge Seaforth IPA (from IPA book) Recipe

[AdyG]

After the success of my Jaipur style clone, I fanced a similar IPA with a slightly different grain bill and hop schedule. In Mitch Steels IPA book this was noted as being a traditional English IPA named after the ship it was originally transported on, sounds interesting enough to give it a go.

Only problem is it uses 1% amber malt, which I don't have. I'm not sure how much difference 60g will make to the recipe! I don't have biscuit which apparently is the nearest thing... I do have wheat malt, munich, Vienna, Caramalt, Carahell etc... so at the moment I'm showing 1% Munich in place of Amber but any advice is welcome.

5.75 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC) 95.2 %
0.20 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L (19.7 EBC) 3.3 %
0.06 kg Carared 1.1 % *
0.02 kg Chocolate Malt (886.5 EBC) 0.4 %

20.00 g Styrian Goldings [5.40 %] - Boil 90.0 min 10.4 IBUs
10.00 g Centennial [10.00 %] - Boil 90.0 min 9.6 IBUs
10.00 g Pilgrim [11.50 %] - Boil 90.0 min 11.1 IBUs

20.00 g Styrian Goldings [5.40 %] - Boil 30.0 min 7.5 IBUs
10.00 g Centennial [10.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min 6.9 IBUs
10.00 g Pilgrim [11.50 %] - Boil 30.0 min 8.0 IBUs

3.00 g Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 mins) Fining

40.00 g Pilgrim [11.50 %] - Boil 0.0 min + 30 mins Steep 0.0 IBUs
35.00 g Styrian Goldings [5.40 %] - Boil 0.0 min + 30 mins Steep 0.0 IBUs
20.00 g Centennial [10.00 %] - Boil 0.0 min + 30 mins Steep 0.0 IBUs -

Est Original Gravity: 1.051 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.011 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.1 %
Bitterness: 53.5 IBUs
Est Color: 13.5 EBC

Any comments or advice greatly recieved

* updated - I'm going to stick in 1% or Carared... probably wont make much difference with that small amount anyway.

[Morrisoff too]

Nice sounding brew. Amber is interesting stuff. Makes itself known in quite small quantities. I've only ever used 100g of it in a brew, and you know it's there. Gives a dry-ish toast/grain feel/taste. Don' think you'll really notice the Munich or cara at that kind of level, but it'll still be a nice beer.

Sounds like I need to get this book!

[AdyG]

Nice sounding brew. Amber is interesting stuff. Makes itself known in quite small quantities. I've only ever used 100g of it in a brew, and you know it's there. Gives a dry-ish toast/grain feel/taste. Don' think you'll really notice the Munich or cara at that kind of level, but it'll still be a nice beer.

Sounds like I need to get this book!

I brewed it on Friday night with carared, everything went according to plan and hit the OG with 23 litres so pretty happy. Those Pilgrim hops are pretty funky smelling so looking forward to seeing how it tastes, but the very small amount of chocolate goes a long way. The taste from the trial jar was definitely a bit stronger and darker than the last Jaipur style IPA I did.

I would recommend this book for all IPA lovers. I got it for my birthday recently along with the "Love of Hops' book.

I will update with a verdict when properly conditioned.

[PhilB]

Hi AdyG

Bear in mind that you may have to wait some time for this beer to be "properly conditioned" ... I've only recently got around to reading the Pete Brown book "Hops and Glory", and since then caught up with how the story progressed after the exploits described in the book, on Pete Brown's blog ... there's some interesting tasting notes for Thornbridge Seaforth at this point in the blog, with a link to how the "Seaforth" name came about too ...
http://petebrown.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12 ... cutta.html
... but as you'll see from the reviews of the other beers, in particular the last barrel of Calcutta IPA, these should really be conditioned for 2 years or more ... or conditioned in the hold of a ship travelling to India for at least 6 months ... to be "properly conditioned"

Cheers, PhilB

[AdyG]

Hi AdyG

Bear in mind that you may have to wait some time for this beer to be "properly conditioned" ... I've only recently got around to reading the Pete Brown book "Hops and Glory", and since then caught up with how the story progressed after the exploits described in the book, on Pete Brown's blog ... there's some interesting tasting notes for Thornbridge Seaforth at this point in the blog, with a link to how the "Seaforth" name came about too ...
http://petebrown.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12 ... cutta.html
... but as you'll see from the reviews of the other beers, in particular the last barrel of Calcutta IPA, these should really be conditioned for 2 years or more ... or conditioned in the hold of a ship travelling to India for at least 6 months ... to be "properly conditioned"

Cheers, PhilB

Hi PhilB... yes I would love to condition the beer for at least 6 months, and I assume it would taste much better conditioning in bulk in a keg. I think the only way I could avoid drinking it would be to put it on a slow ship somewhere, as I can never prevent myself from trying it as soon as it's ready. I will stick a few pints in bottles to hide away for later though.

I think I need a bigger brewing set up so I can stash a keg away for conditioning and drink one... seems like the only logical solution