All Grain IPA Recipe

Here's another beer recipe I need to jot down so I don't forget. It is loosely based off of Ninkasi Breweries 'Tricerahops' IPA, but darker in color and likely not as good (amazing beer, very strong). This recipe has three different hops, along with a small amount of Chocolate malt and Roasted Barley. I only used two ounces of each of those dark malts for a ten gallon batch, and the color coming out of the sparge is a nice mahogany hue.

• 20 lbs Pale malt
• 2 lbs Crystal malt, 40 lovibond
• 2 ounces Chocolate malt
• 2 ounces Roasted Barley
• Start of boil, 2 ounces Magnum hops, alpha 15
• Start of boil, 2 ounces Amarillo, alpha 8.6
• 60 minutes, 2 ounces Centennial, 7.8 alpha
• 85 minutes, 2 teaspoons Irish Moss
• 90 minutes, cut heat

The target original gravity should be ~1.065, which will yield a beer that is around 6.5% alcohol range. The IBU's, or bittering units, should be close to 80, which should make this a nice, bitter IPA. There are some commercial IPAs that go as high as 100, but between 50 and 80 is pretty common for a home brewer.

According to the specs on the Ninkasi website, if I wanted to get closer to their numbers, I would need to scale up both the alcohol and IBU's. So if you want to brew a real double IPA approaching 9% alcohol, try this recipe instead.

• 28 lbs Pale malt
• 2 lbs Crystal malt, 40 lovibond
• 1.5 ounces Chocolate malt
• 1.5 ounces Roasted Barley
• Start of boil, 3 ounces Magnum hops, alpha 15
• Start of boil, 2 ounces Amarillo, alpha 8.6
• 60 minutes, 2 ounces Centennial, 7.8 alpha
• 85 minutes, 2 teaspoons Irish Moss
• 90 minutes, cut heat

The main reason I chose not to go this strong is simply practical--it takes longer for strong beers like this to mature, and I wanted an IPA like yesterday :D