Grapefruit IPA Recipe Help

Discussion in 'Homebrewing' started by kylemckinnis, Sep 2, 2015.

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  1. DrMindbender

    DrMindbender Initiate (0) Jul 13, 2014 South Carolina



    I have yet to do it myself, ordering those same parts tomorrow, but there are several articles online and in magazines about how well it works. I am looking forward to using peanut butter in stouts, as well hot peppers, and all kinds of fruit and hops in IPAs.
     
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  2. GetMeAnIPA

    GetMeAnIPA Pooh-Bah (2,559) Mar 28, 2009 California
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    Peanut butter sounds like it would be perfect!
     
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  3. kylemckinnis

    kylemckinnis Initiate (0) Mar 7, 2011 Colorado

    It isn't a random recipe I found online. I made it up.

    I completely understand about the experimentation with zest. However, since I made up the base beer, I'm just asking if people think it makes sense. Do the fermentables look wacky? Are there differing opinions on the hop schedule? Etc. etc.

    Thanks!

    Edited: http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/273786/grapefruit-ipa
     
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  4. GetMeAnIPA

    GetMeAnIPA Pooh-Bah (2,559) Mar 28, 2009 California
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    Gotcha, I miss understood the question. Pretty sure I was drinking. That's the beauty of a beer site, is I always have a fall back reason for stupid posts.

    The recipe looks fine. I brew my IPAs with a simple malt bill. All base malts and then some flaked wheat for body. I don't add crystal and other stuff. My advice for the base recipe is I always preferred using more dry malt extract to liquid. Also, when using extracts my beers always seem to have more unfermentability because of the extract and came out with a higher FG and darker than desired. The best ipa I brewed with extract was just using DME and skipping all additional malts. Again that's just my personal opinion on my preferences but otherwise I would say the recipe looks good....cheers.
     
  5. Brew_Betty

    Brew_Betty Initiate (0) Jan 5, 2015 Wisconsin

    5 grapefruits in addition to grapefruit hops in the boil and a super grapefruity hop for dry hopping sounds like you won't have to struggle to taste the grapefruit. This beer will be a grapefruit bomb.
     
  6. nottherealEBW

    nottherealEBW Aspirant (239) Aug 13, 2015 Indiana

    Here is a grapefruit ipa recipe its supposed to be a sculpin clone and I think its extremely close.
    6# Light DME
    2# Corn Sugar
    0.5# Crystal 20
    0.5# CaraPils
    0.5# CaraVienne

    0.5oz Chinook @ FWH
    1.0oz Simcoe @ FWH
    0.25oz Columbus @ 60
    0.25oz Magnum @ 60
    0.25oz Northern Brewer @ 60
    0.25oz Warrior @ 60
    0.25oz Centennial @ 30
    0.25oz Simcoe @30
    1.0oz Amarillo @ 0

    2.0oz Amarillo Dry
    2.0oz Simcoe Dry

    Zest 5 Ruby Red Grapefruits
    I even added 1liter of grapefruit juice to the keg. When I brew it again I won't add the juice the mouth feel of the beer was strange after I added the juice.
     
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