Rye IPA advice

[rickw]

Hi

I've been drinking a fair bit of Adnams Jack Brand Rye IPA of late, and would love to try to make a batch of Rye IPA.

Does anyone have any tips or recipes that are similar?

So far I've only used AG kits or followed recipes I've found online - but so far not been able to find something that looks similar.

according to the Adnam's site:

"We've used lots of hops from North America – Columbus, Centennial, Cascade, Amarillo and Citra – because we just love the delicious, big, bold, citrus and pine flavours and aromas they bring to the beer.

To balance out all this hoppy goodness we've added Rye, plus some Pale Ale and Cara Malt, to imbue sweetness, body and balance as well as some lovely subtle toffee flavours.

- See more at: http://adnams.co.uk/beer/our-beers/jack ... hFieW.dpuf "

Any ideas of what ratio of Malts & hops they may use?

if you've not tried it yet its definitely work checking out!


cheers

Rick

[Matt12398]

I made a rye IPA with 10% rye. You could push it a bit higher if you wanted but it came out at a good amount. You could take your favourite IPA recipe and replace a portion of the pale malt for the same percentage of rye.

[seymour]

I made a rye IPA with 10% rye. You could push it a bit higher if you wanted but it came out at a good amount. You could take your favourite IPA recipe and replace a portion of the pale malt for the same percentage of rye.

+1

I'd start with 80% Maris Otter, 10% Rye Malt, 10% CaraMalt. Try to source some rice hulls or oat hulls to stir-into mash tun, otherwise rye can make for a gummy, slow sparge. As you've discovered though, the flavour is well worth the extra effort.

[Aaron]

I just made a rye IPA using crystal rye (5%) with centennial, wai iti and willamette hops. Very fruity. I haven't used rye malt, so can't comment on that, but if you use crystal rye I wouldn't go above 5% unless you really like the extra sweetness.

[seymour]

I just made a rye IPA using crystal rye (5%) with centennial, wai iti and willamette hops. Very fruity. I haven't used rye malt, so can't comment on that, but if you use crystal rye I wouldn't go above 5% unless you really like the extra sweetness.

Technically, Crystal Rye is malted too. It's just a caramelized version of pale rye malt, but I see your point.

[timothy]

I've got no idea what kind of proportions they use, but I just made a Rye PA using a very similar hop bill but with 35% malted rye and 20% malted wheat and it turned out ridiculously delicious.

[seymour]

...and it turned out ridiculously delicious.

That's true, I've tasted it! Timothy's Rye Pale Ale took 3rd place in a homebrew contest last week.

[Rookie]

I made a rye bitter with 20% malted rye and was happy with it. I wouldn't go any lower than 20%. I'm planning on a rye porter next month and with chocolate rye and crystal rye it will have closer to 30%. I also plan to add a bit of caraway.

[AnthonyD]

Both my Rye beers have been with c.20% rye. An IPA with Malted, Crystal and Flaked was in my opinion too much. However, my Barley Wine with 15% Malted and 5% Chocolate rye has turned out superb!