As featured in CAMRA’s – The Modern Homebrewer – Andy Parker & Jamil Zainasheff and sponsored by ourselves The Malt Miller.

We would highly recommend purchasing and reading this book as it feature not only a wide selection of recipes but some great knowledge and techniques from Andy and Jamil on how to brew the best beer possible at home.

This recipe was provided for the book from a professional brewer, all of the recipes were scaled by the writers to a 20ltr batch size using 75% efficiency.

Where ever possible we have matched the exact ingredients, however in some recipes slight changes may be required and volume adjustments based on ingredient available to homebrewers. Be sure to fully read the below details before purchasing so you are fully confident in the process and aware of any ingredients which are not included with this kit that you will need to add.

Weights are removed on this page due to publishing agreements but will be provided on the bags when the recipe is purchased or are present in the book for those who purchase it.

 

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Ingredients Included

Weyermann Carahell
Simpsons Malt – Pale Ale Golden Promise
Weyermann Barke Pilsner Malt
Amarillo® – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets (60 grams)
Citra® – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets (60 grams)
Idaho 7 – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets (60 grams)
Hallertauer Magnum – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellet (6 grams)
Centennial – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets (30 grams)
Fermentis SafAle US-05 11.5g (1 pack)

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Method

Beer Style (main): American Ales
Beer Style (sub): American-Style India Pale Ale
Batch Size: 20
Original Gravity: 1.062
Final Gravity: 1.012
ABV %: 6.6
IBU: 58
Mash efficiency: 75

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 66
Length (mins) (Step 1): 60

Mash notes: Mash hop with 30g Centennial

Water: The target profile is calcium 70-100ppm, magnesium 5ppm, sodium 12ppm, sulphate 80-100ppm, chloride 40-50ppm and bicarbonate 50ppm

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 90

Hop / kettle additions and timing:

Magnum 6g/0.21oz @ 90 mins

Whirlpool / hop stand:

Whirlpool/Hop Stand (20 minutes @ post boil)

Idaho 7 60g/2.11oz

Yeast: Fermentis SafAle™ US-05
Fermentation temperature/steps: Pitch 1 pack (11.5g/0.4oz) of Fermentis SafAle™ US-05 at 18°C/66°F and ferment at 19°C/68°F for 7 days until gravity is stable, then dry hop

Secondary additions:

Dry hop (at terminal gravity)

Citra 60g/2.11oz
Amarillo 60g/2.11oz

Rouse with CO2 after 48 hours then cold crash.

Comments:

IMBĪB Custom Brews – Fresh Pow IPA

Jason Green and Matt Johnson, the co-founders of IMBĪB (Nevada, USA), both trace their roots to home-brewing. With more than 25 years combined experience as at-home brewers, these two made the transition from hobbyists to professionals and attribute much of their success to their home-brewing roots. Most brewing professionals who receive formal training rarely get to experiment or learn from mistakes, but Jason and Matt learned the fundamentals on a small scale and apply that knowledge to their award winning beer at the large scale.

Jason Green explains his thinking behind the malt bill of Fresh Pow – “one of the philosophies at IMBĪB is to create malt flavours using base malts instead of crystal malts. Freshy Pow is a blend of Weyermann Pilsner and Simpsons Golden Promise. There is a touch of Crystal 20 in the recipe to give a little colour and head retention. Using a combination of richer base malts allows subtle malt character to still be present in a heavily hopped beer without becoming overly sweet. We also keep the water profile a little softer and target a lower sulfate/chloride ratio so the beer does not become overly bitter.

IMBĪB target a specific water profile range for Fresh Pow – “our water is fairly soft 90% of the time but we do not have reverse osmosis, so there is some fluctuation. This is the range we target trying to keep the sulphate to chloride ratio around 2.25 to 1. We acidify the mash using lactic acid to target 5.3pH.”

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