Different IPA recipes

[Red Animal]

Hi, just wondering something, I want to try brewing an IPA beer cause my dad loves it. On the online store the recipe is 500g of light dry malt and 1kg of dextrose. However in the information section of this website, if you look under strong beers in the how to brew section, it says for an 'authentic IPA' do the opposite, 1kg of light dry malt and 500g of dextrose.

Just wondering if this is a mistake, or is it the fact that its a more authentic IPA style which will be much more bitter.

Also any other IPA recipes would be cool, im fairly new so still using just the cans and sugars no hops and grains yet. My pale ale and dark ale are both going very well though. Cheers, Animal.

[Hairy]

Hey Red, the IPA recipe on both the online store and the How to Brew section calls for 300g dextrose rather than 1kg. It is a mid strength IPA.

 

I would brew this one:

 

Hop Slam IPA

[Beerlust]

Hi Red.

 

The "Authentic IPA" you speak of is what I would brew first up to get an idea of what flavours the Coopers IPA kit produces. As you probably already know, that recipe can be found in the "Strong" tab of the How-To-Brew section. [ninja]

 

After brewing that recipe, I would then follow Hairy's advice & brew the Hop Slam IPA as a further notch into your learning curve with brewing IPA's. [wink]

 

Good luck with your future brewing.

 

Anthony.

[Del]

this is what im drinking right now..

 

Thomas coopers IPA kit,

the 500gram dry malt and 300 gram dextrose.

 

THEN.. I..

 

bought 500grams of medium crystal grains

Hops: Citra, Centenial

 

 

1. Crack 250g of the Crystal and steep in 2L of water around 70C for 30 min. Strain the liquid into another pot (a decent sized one) through a sieve. Rinse the grains with hot water from the jug (not boiling) through the sieve again. You should end up with roughly 3L of liquid.

 

 

 

2. Bring the ~3L of wort from the grain to the boil, watching out for boil overs. Put 25g of one of the hops listed above in and boil for 5 mins, then put in 25g more and boil for a further 5 min. This would be described as.

 

 

 

30g Citra @ 10 min

 

 

 

3. Strain this stuff into the FV instead of the hot water listed on the kit instructions for mixing the rest of the gear. Add the rest of the cold water and pitch your yeast.

 

 

 

4. Ferment it with Danstar Nottingham Ale yeast. This is notorious for fast and furious fermentations.

 

 

 

5. Chuck in another 25g of Centenial hops on day 3 of fermentation. You may want to do this in some sanitised material to loosely restrain the hops so you don't get them in your bottles.

 

 

 

Got this recipe help from philboBaggins!

 

and i gotta admit.. i like it!!!

[Hairy]

Hi Red.

 

The "Authentic IPA" you speak of is what I would brew first up to get an idea of what flavours the Coopers IPA kit produces. As you probably already know, that recipe can be found in the "Strong" tab of the How-To-Brew section. [ninja]

 

After brewing that recipe, I would then follow Hairy's advice & brew the Hop Slam IPA as a further notch into your learning curve with brewing IPA's. [wink]

 

Good luck with your future brewing.

 

Anthony.

Stuff that. Go straight for the Hop Slam [devil]

 

But it is your beer, not mine or Lusty's.

[Beerlust]

Stuff that. Go straight for the Hop Slam [devil]

 

But it is your beer, not mine or Lusty's.

Just admit it Hairy, you missed that one! [whistling

 

[biggrin]

 

Cheers,

 

Anthony.

 

[Scottie]

As long as you are using the Coopers IPA kit you and your Dad will be rapped.

You could always brew the (St)Ella IPA [bandit] .