This is the recipe for my 1492 IPA, which is based on a kit IPA. It’s an extract beer, and at some point down the road I may modify it to become an all-grain beer. I wasn’t particularly concerned with gravity on the first batch of this beer, so I don’t have that info at this time.
Fermentables:
6.6lb Light liquid malt extract
3lb Golden dry malt extract
Grains:
1lb Caramel 80L
8oz Victory
4oz Carapils
Hops:
2oz Columbus pellets (bittering)
1oz Columbus pellets (flavoring)
1oz Columbus pellets (aroma)
2oz Chinook whole leaf (dry hop)
Yeast:
1 sachet (I can’t remember which one we went with)
Heat 2.5 to 5 gallons of water to roughly 150 degrees and steep crushed grains in grain sock for approximately 20 minutes. Remove grains and add malt extract, bringing the wort to a boil.
Hop additions:
60 minutes: bittering hops
20 minutes: flavoring hops
5 minutes: aroma hops
Chill with ice bath or wort chiller to approximately 70 degrees, rack into primary fermenter, and pitch yeast. If necessary, add clean water to increase volume to 5 gallons. Ferment in primary for approximately 1 week, then rack to secondary fermenter and add dry leaf hops. Ferment an additional two weeks prior to bottling or kegging.
I’m not sure what this is going to taste like yet, but at this point it smells an awful lot like Sierra Nevada’s Torpedo IPA. I’ll be interested to taste one in a few weeks and see what we get.
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