Brew Number

16

Style

India Pale Ale IPA 14/1

Ingredients

Black Rock IPA kit

0.5 kg light liquid malt from Welshpool

600 g dextrose

200g corn syrup

15 g Hallertau hops pellets (8%)

Brewing notes

Boil 4 L water, add malt, corn syrup, dextrose, bring to boil, add kit, boil 10 mins.  Remove from heat, add 15 g Hallertau hop pellets, steep 10 mins.  Add to 20 L cold water.  Rapid start to fermentation.  Added finings 11 Jan.  14 Jan decanted through fine plastic coffee filter.  Bulk primed with 7 oz dextrose, bottled.

Tasting notes

Took at least 1 month in bottle to be drinkable (hops to subside).  Good carbonation and head.  Eventually reached a nice balance of malt and hops, but from memory not as good as Coopers.

5 April – nearly 3 months old.  Light amber/golden colour and slightly cloudy.  Over-carbonated, big hiss when opened, a bit ice creamy on the pour, with bubbling only gentle in the glass.  Some malt flavour up-front, but dominated by flowery/citrus hops which have now reduced to a strong but quite pleasant tangy type aftertaste, very long on the palate.  Flowery hop aroma. 

A very nice beer, perfect for hot Summers day, very refreshing, 8/10.

For Simon, maybe try same hops but 1 kg of liquid malt to balance, or even half light malt half dark malt.

7 Oct – 9 months old.  Golden colour, very clear, good carbonation, lacy head.  Dry aroma, small malt up front, long lasting citrusy tang/aftertaste.  Very nice beer, eminently drinkable.