Indigo Roads – IPA – 5l All Grain Home Brew Kit

This 5 litre recipe kit features everything you need to home brew a homage to one of the modern classics in craft beer – Jaipur, as part of our Kitchen Brewer series or otherwise known as stove top brewing.

Expect a beer which is full of piney, grapefruit forward hop presence, highly refreshing and delicious body and aroma. This 5L recipe kit is inspired by our best selling Jaipur IPA – Keg and Can Recipe Kit which has a been super popular since we launched it following a visit to Thornbridge Brewery we were given the full recipe for this iconic beer. To translate this down to smaller batch size, we have slightly simplified the hop additions and moved to using pellet hops.

Check out the video instructions or our step by step blog post to guide you from brew day to bottle!

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About the Kitchen Brewer Range

Brewing 20l batches of beer just isn’t convenient for everyone. We also know that many of you would love to experience the joy of making your own all grain beer at home but space doesn’t permit. That’s why we’ve put together the Kitchen Brewer range. Featuring great recipes that come from our most popular bigger recipe kits and all the equipment you will need to make great tasting beer at home, using all grain, just like the pros. All these beer kits have been prepared and developed to work with the common method for stove top brewing, brew in the bag. The grain is crushed slightly finer to allow for maximum efficiency when mashing.

Ingredients Included

Simpsons Malt – Low Colour Maris Otter
Cascade T90 Pellets (5 grams)
Chinook T90 Pellets (19 grams)
Centennial – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets (18 grams)
Simcoe T90 Pellets (18 grams)
WHC Dried Yeast – LAX – 11g Packet (1 pack)

Method

Beer Style (main): American Ales
Beer Style (sub): American-Style India Pale Ale
Batch Size: 5L
Original Gravity: 1.055
Final Gravity: 1.010
ABV %: 5.9
IBU: 55
Mash efficiency: 70

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 65
Length (mins) (Step 1): 60

Mash notes: Heat 8L strike water to 65c

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60

Hop / kettle additions and timing:Add 10g Chinook Hop Pellets @ 30mins

Whirlpool / hop stand:

Add:

8g Simcoe
8g Centennial
4g Chinook
4g Cascade

Aim for 90-95c for the whirlpool temperature, give everything a really good stir and leave to stand for 30mins before cooling and transferring to your fermenter – allowing all your hop matter to sink to the bottom of your brewing kettle before transfer and avoiding bringing that hop matter into the fermenter

Yeast: 1 x WHC LAX
Fermentation temperature/steps: 18-20c – 7-10 days, until fermentation has completed

Secondary additions:After fermentation add your dry hop addition of 10g Simcoe, 10g Centennial and 5g Chinook, allow for 3 days contact time before packaging and carbonating your beer – if you can, cold crash the beer before packaging to draw all yeast and hops to the bottom of your fermenter.