First Brew: Extract IPA recipe?

How much beer do you want to ferment?

 

For 3 gallons of beer:

4 lbs Extra light dry malt extract
1/2 oz Magnum (60 min)
1 oz Amarillo (10 min)
1 oz Amarillo (0 min)
1 oz Amarillo (Dry hop)
Safale S-05

 

I've done something similar for an extract IPA, for ~3 gallons

3# Pilsen DME
1# Wheat DME
5oz corn sugar

60 or 90 minute boil
US-05/WLP001/WY1056

For hops I've used Magnum, Centennial, and/or Chinook for early bittering additions or first wort hop additions. Typically use Columbus for later boil additions. My favorite for flameout/dry hop additions are Moasic, Simcoe, and Nelson Sauvin. I've done 2oz of a combo of those plus I believe Chinook last time for dry hopping in 3 gallons and the beer is hoppy for sure but not overly so IMO. Citra would be another to consider for the dry hop if you want citrus flavor.

 

Northern Brewer has a chinook IPA extract kit that is outstanding. You can brew up to 5 gal/kit.
It's no more work to brew 5 gals. than it is 3 gals.. you only need to work with 2 gals. in your brew pot.
Instead of dry hopping, you can steep more hops the last few minutes after boil.
You will be pleased anyway you go...

 

Just scale them up. (The amount of total water to use would not scale linearly (due to the amount boil off staying about the same), but the ingredients will (close enough). But since the total water wasn't specified, there's nothing to convert there!)

 

You can't ferment 5 gallons of beer in a 5 gallon fermenter, you'll have a massive blowout.

 

If it's anything similar to their AG Chinook recipe then I'm 100% for it. That was my first AG batch and has since become my house IPA. I just love Chinook hops.

 

If your looking for citrus( my favorite profile ) I use simcoe and citra. My IPA fiends ... I mean friends absolutely love it.
I'll use (for a 10 galloner) 1 ounce each at 60 min
1 ounce simcoe at 30 min
1 ounce citra at 5 min.
Dry hop in the secondary fermenter one ounce of each.
Let the secondary sit for 2 weeks
Transfer, remove dry hops, and sit one more week for clearity ( optional, just a personal preference )

 

I have to disagree HB32, I do most 5 gal batches in 5 gal glass carboys and use a blow-off tube into a plastic jug with H20 bleach solution as an airlock. It actually gives you a cleaner fermentation with a lot of the crap ending up in the jug.

 

Double everything except water and watch the smiles you get when you and your buds taste it.