Malts for a yellow(ish) IPA?

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  1. Bdalik

    Bdalik Initiate (0) Feb 1, 2015 New Jersey

    Tired Hands beers, Heady Topper, Hill Farmstead, Trillium. They all have this yellow/orange, light yet opaque look to their beers and I'm wondering what kind of malts they could possibly be using. I know color is not only derived from malt, but that's where most of the color comes from. I recently did an IPA with just 2-row pale and 20L crystal and got a SRM of about 6. How do I get that yellowy look to it?
     
    #1 Bdalik, Sep 3, 2015
  2. HerbMeowing

    HerbMeowing Maven (1,295) Nov 10, 2010 Virginia
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    Brew without any crystal ... brew with less crystal ... use 10L.
     
    #2 HerbMeowing, Sep 3, 2015
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  3. SFACRKnight

    SFACRKnight Grand Pooh-Bah (3,348) Jan 20, 2012 Colorado
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    Search northeast ipa in this forum.
     
    #3 SFACRKnight, Sep 3, 2015
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  4. aobrehm

    aobrehm Initiate (0) Jun 18, 2015 Oregon

    I would consider using a richer, English-style base malt (Maris Otter, Pearl, Golden Promise...) rather than American 2-row. I would also replace all Caramel/Crystal malts with Munich or Vienna. Maybe use a bit of CaraMunich to get that orange color.
     
    #4 aobrehm, Sep 3, 2015
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  5. psnydez86

    psnydez86 Initiate (0) Jan 4, 2012 Pennsylvania

    Pale malt/2 row of your choice, flaked oats/wheat, London Ale 3 yeast. Huge late hopping/dry hopping.

    As mentioned above read the NE ipa thread.
     
    #5 psnydez86, Sep 3, 2015
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