Recipes
Beer-style: India Pale Ale (Specialty)
Tragen Babbel (Belgian IPA)
Belgian IPAs can be a challenge, balancing the Belgian yeast character with the hop character. You don’t want one to overpower the other. This recipe helps toe that line.
Fresh Hop Black IPA
This beer is malty, smooth, with strong hop bitterness, and a wonderful fresh hop aroma to round it out. The use of Midnight Wheat (a dark grain without the harsh bitterness of many dark malts) gives this beer a lack of astringency common in dark beers. Then kick the hop aroma up a notch with the fresh hops and you will love this beer!
Portland U-Brew and Pub Fresh Hop IPA
Fresh hopped (wet-hop) IPA with just a enough malt back bone to stand up to the big hop character provided by the Citra® hops.
Logan’s Triticale IPA
Got triticale? Triticale is a cross between wheat and rye and can add a unique twist to the malt character of your homebrew. Find an IPA brewed with Triticale here.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s Ruthless Rye IPA clone
While production of Ruthless Rye was discontinued in 2015, fans can still brew this beer. Chinook, Citra®, and US Magnum hops are the shining star in this Rye IPA with a little rye kick that rounds out the hop profile.
Black Rye IPA
Reader submitted recipe — from Gary Fortin out of Biddeford, Maine.
Sun King Brewing Company: Tequila Barrel-Aged Fistful of Hops clone
“Fistful of Hops is a quarterly rotating seasonal IPA, which means every three months the hops change. We usually combine two to three varieties of hops together for each new release. The same varieties and proportion of hops are used all the way through the recipe including dry hopping.” – Dave Colt, Sun King Brewery
PEI Brewing Co.’s Black Banks Cascadian Dark Ale clone
PEI Brewing has won a dozen medals at the Canadian Brewing Awards (including seven in 2016 and 2017) and remains a focal point of craft beer innovation not just on the island, but in eastern Canada. Black Banks was designed with the flavors of an IPA and the looks of a stout.
Smuttynose Brewing Company: Frankenlager clone
Frankenlager is Smuttynose’s interpretation of an IPA decoction-mashed and fermented like the classic lagers of Europe. It’s crisp and refined, but certainly not meek or mild.
Samuel Adams Brewing Company: Double Agent IPL clone
An easy drinking, nicely hoppy IPL from Boston Beer Co. A bright zesty hoppiness up front greets drinkers followed by bready backbone.
Jack’s Abby Brewing: Hoponius Union clone
Hoponius Union is a lager that features a blend of popular American hops, creating a huge tropical fruit and citrusy hop aroma. A dry finish accentuates the pleasant bitterness and hop profile.
Base Camp Brewing Company: In-Tents IPL clone
This is a labor-intensive beer to produce, utilizing a triple batch sparge, kräusening, a three-week bulk lagering period, and oak chip aging. The result is a malty and firmly hopped, oak-aged lager softened by some natural carbonation. The lager yeast allows the piney and floral aromatics to shine while the oak chips heighten the maltiness of the brew.
