IPA(ish) Recipe

[perryni]

Can anyone tell me if this sounds ok?

19 Litre Batch

4.75 kg Belgian Pale Malt
0.25 kg Munich Malt

40g Northern Brewer - 60 mins - 45 IBU
60g Hallertauer Mittelfrueh - 1 min - 1.8 IBU
30g Cascade - 1 min - 3.5 IBU

Cheers
Nick

[Fido97]

That should turn out a treat. What yeast you thinking of using? To give it an extra hops kick maybe you could dry hop as well....

[Deebee]

Grist looks ok, but i am a little confused about your hopping.

The 1 minute addition of halltauer is going to be totally overpowered byt the cascade, and the extra 1.8 ibu you get for it to my mind is a waste. If you want the extra IBU then increase the other hops to make up the different.

I am not a lover of the cascade hop by any means, and think i might stay noble and look to styrians or somthing like that.

Personally i think i might go for a neautral ale yeast like notty og S-05 as it will bring the hop through.

HTH

[perryni]

I am thinking of using NBS Ale yeast from the malt miller as it states its fairly neutral.

Maybe I will cut down the cascade then as I am not bothered about adding the extra bitterness but wanted to see what a Hallertauer/Cascade mix would taste like.

Maybe add 15g Cascade instead??

[Deebee]

Personally the halletauer are wasted imo. Cascade is rather powerful

[scuppeteer]

I assume you only have US Cascade, which as previously suggested would probably overpower the Hallertauer, now if you had UK Cascade it would make a more rounded beer as they're no where near as harsh.

[perryni]

Yes its US Cascade, I will lower the amount to 15g so with the Hallertauer staying at 60g it should not overpower it.

[Deebee]

Interesting thought. Me being a none cascade lover though thunk the hally will be wasted

[Fido97]

I personally do not see any issue with combining noble hops with cascade. OK so its not the convention but what's the worst that can happen? Give it a go I say - that's the fun of messing around with different recipes. It may turn out to be a real winner. Forget about the IBUs and just chuck em in on your instinct....

[Hanglow]

I'm bottling a user-upper pale ale this weekend that used summit, amarillo, cascade and a lot of hallertau. I'm quite looking forward to trying it. No idea if it has worked!

[JKaranka]

I'd move the hallertau to 20m and keep the Cascade for steeping. 50-100g extra hops for dry hopping most welcome too.