Anyone have a good recipe for an all grain wheat IPA?
I found this one on the NB site that looks pretty tasty:
http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/whea ... n-kit.htmlI’d like to try something that’s not a kit…kinda like a first step into recipe formulation 
Looking to do a sessionable summer beer, but I like IPAs so much I fell on the wheat IPA kick.
Any ideas?
[quote=“stompwampa”]Anyone have a good recipe for an all grain wheat IPA?
I found this one on the NB site that looks pretty tasty:
http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/whea ... n-kit.htmlI’d like to try something that’s not a kit…kinda like a first step into recipe formulation
Looking to do a sessionable summer beer, but I like IPAs so much I fell on the wheat IPA kick.
Any ideas?[/quote]
I’d look at one of the many Gumballhead clones out there for ideas. That’s Three Floyd’s hopped up wheat. And it’s delicious on a hot summer day.
I would look to hop it more to a pale ale style rather than an IPA. When you start getting crazy with the hops they tend to mask the nuances that the wheat malt contributes to the beer. I would base your recipe around the kit from NB that you linked to or around a Gumballhead clone as mentioned above.
Any links for a Gumballhead clone? Never heard of that one.
I’m assuming you’re looking for a clean yeast character, and not a weizen-style IPA (like Schneider/Brooklyn Hopfenweisse), right? Here’s what I’d do. You’ll end up with something that straddles the line between an IPA and an APA, but should let enough of the wheat character shine through.
Base malt - 50% Pale 2-row/50% wheat
1/2 - 1 lb of light Crystal malt (something in the C-20 range)
30 IBU’s of a clean bittering hop like Magnum at 60 min
15-20 IBU flavor hop (Your choice - for my tastes I’d go with Amarillo or Centennial) at 15 min
1-2 oz aroma hop at flameout (Your choice - I like an ounce of Citra or 2 oz of Motueka here, or a combo of the two)
2-3 oz dry hops (an ounce of each of your flavor/aroma hops)
Ferment with WY1010 (Chico would work, but this is supposed to be a wheat beer, so when in Rome…)
Most I’ve seen are around 55% pale malt, 40% wheat malt, 5% caravienne. A s*%@load of Amarillo hops late. Google it and you’ll see tons of variations.
[quote=“stompwampa”]Anyone have a good recipe for an all grain wheat IPA?
I found this one on the NB site that looks pretty tasty:
http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/whea ... n-kit.htmlI’d like to try something that’s not a kit…kinda like a first step into recipe formulation
Looking to do a sessionable summer beer, but I like IPAs so much I fell on the wheat IPA kick.
Any ideas?[/quote]
This just in: a kit is just a recipe that someone else has brewed successfully. You can’t say the same for most homebrew recipes on the internet.
If you’re talking about wanting to come up with your own recipe, that’s an entirely different issue, but not a reason to disparage a kit.
[quote=“Vaughn_S”]This just in: a kit is just a recipe that someone else has brewed successfully. You can’t say the same for most homebrew recipes on the internet.
If you’re talking about wanting to come up with your own recipe, that’s an entirely different issue, but not a reason to disparage a kit.[/quote]
I’m not disparaging the kit. I’d just like to take a step into making my own recipes. I could just as easily alter the kit slightly. Or I could just brew it. It’s got great reviews
[quote=“erockrph”]I’m assuming you’re looking for a clean yeast character, and not a weizen-style IPA (like Schneider/Brooklyn Hopfenweisse), right? Here’s what I’d do. You’ll end up with something that straddles the line between an IPA and an APA, but should let enough of the wheat character shine through.
Base malt - 50% Pale 2-row/50% wheat
1/2 - 1 lb of light Crystal malt (something in the C-20 range)
30 IBU’s of a clean bittering hop like Magnum at 60 min
15-20 IBU flavor hop (Your choice - for my tastes I’d go with Amarillo or Centennial) at 15 min
1-2 oz aroma hop at flameout (Your choice - I like an ounce of Citra or 2 oz of Motueka here, or a combo of the two)
2-3 oz dry hops (an ounce of each of your flavor/aroma hops)
Ferment with WY1010 (Chico would work, but this is supposed to be a wheat beer, so when in Rome…)[/quote]
Awesome. Thank you! I’ll read up some more on this and figure something out.
Much appreciated!
Keep in mind that wheat malt is dehulled, smaller and harder than regular malt, often it requires a separate milling and then run through again with the rest of your grist, if not your efficiency could suffer. [quote=“Vaughn_S”]a kit is just a recipe that someone else has brewed successfully. You can’t say the same for most homebrew recipes on the internet.[/quote]This is a good point. When starting out formulating recipes you should base them off of tried and true recipes that you’ve brewed and make small changes to them to get an idea where those changes lead.
