Brew Number

11

Style

India Pale Ale IPA 2/12

Ingredients

Coopers Brewmaster IPA

1 kg powered light liquid malt

250 g dextrose

Brewing notes

Kit method? (Started to boil kits around about now).  Only brewed down to 1.015  Bottled on 2 Dec.  50% extra carbonation sugar.

Tasting notes

After 10 days, disappointing.  Very malty up front, with hops only vaguely present in aftertaste.  After about a month, very nice beer, strongly malty up front, hoppy at the back, with flavours more balanced.  Nice beer.

4 April – 4 months old.  Very clear, dark caramel colour with almost a reddish tinge.  Good carbonation, lacy head on the edge of the glass.  Quite dry aroma, similar to a Mexican.  Strong malt flavour with caramel overtones.  Subdued, lingering subtle hop taste.  A nice beer, but for Simon a bit more hops next time.

5 April – different bottle.  Brassy on the nose, nutty colour, gentle bubbles to flat.  Caramel malty taste which is overpowering to the point of cloying, no hops flavour left.  Not a good beer in fact a bad beer worth 2 to 3 out of 10.

Definite variability between bottles from the same brew becoming evident.

28 August – 9 months old reasonable carbonation, not much hop flavour, cloying caramel malty taste, don’t like that malt, not a good beer.

3 September – again the malt is overpowering in a caramel/liquorice slightly gingery  sort of a way.  Carbonation is good to a bit excessive.   Stay away from powdered malt from Bayswater shop.