Check my kit brew- coopers amber ipa (toucan)

[leighaus]

Hey guys, ive done 6 K&K's so far, having hopped my last few... I want to run this one by you (may well have been done)

21L batch

1x Coopers IPA
1x Coopers Amber
1kg amber malt extract

5gr galaxy
15gr citra

Hops boiled for 15 minutes in 4L of water with the malt.

Using a US05 yeast,

Then dry hopping 30 grams of cascade 3 days before secondary.

I generally like an IPA with some go at it. So I'm thinking this might work out.


Thoughts before i spend the money?


Cheers and beers

Leigh

 

[maaark]

Hey Leigh, the recipe looks good to me mate.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but you might only need a 2 or 3 litre boil with about 1 cup of malt (dry or liquid).

 

[stewy]

Looks nice. Regarding the hop boil, don't put entire malt into only 4 litres, will greatly affect hop utilisation. Use enough to get gravity to 1.040 (use Ian H spreadsheet to calculate)

 

[leighaus]

cheers guys. Went to the LHBS, bought a tin of coopers ipa, and had to settle on morgans amber ale. got 1kg of dry light malt (no dry amber malt).

going back next week (as im going away) to get the us05 and hops.

Ill use the spreadsheet and see what i come up with. cheers .


edit -

427gms of DME for a 4L boil..

[SIZE=10pt]Predicted [/SIZE][SIZE=10pt]OG [/SIZE][SIZE=10pt]1.068[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]IBU[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]97.7[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]FG[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]1.017[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]EBC[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]30.7[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]%alc[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt] Keg[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]6.6[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]Bottle[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10pt]7.0[/SIZE]


Surely the IBU isn't realistic?

 

[Drewski]

The morgans amber ale is pre-hopped though so will increase your ibus, whereas the coopers amber is not hopped and that is why the ibu level is so high. Probably don't add the additional hops and see what you get.

EDIT:

Just checked in ians SS and the Morgans Amber ale has pretty high IBU, close to the coopers ipa - 83IBUS combined... Still too high, would not mix these two kits myself.

 

[leighaus]

hmm spewing.. really wanted to try an amber IPA...

Ill keep the morgans for a single to keg later on and track down a coopers amber and maybe look at ditching the citra if the ibu's are still up there.

 

[Aaron1.0]

Your recipe looks sort of like an American Brown Ale, but a bit stronger perhaps. Looks good! You could try dry hopping at the same time as racking to the secondary if you are going to do that?

 

[hwall95]

If you want amber colour and are confident with steeping grains, 50g of roasted barley with greatly increase colour without much flavour increase, otherwise a bit of dark crystal could add nice flavour and a darker colour.

I've done the IPA coopers kit with several additions twice now and was really happy with the results. Goodluck.

 

[gsouth82]

I regularly do a coppers ipa tin with a coopers amber tin. I also add galaxy at 20, 10 and 0 minutes.
Works a treat.

 

[leighaus]

Cheers gsouth
, nice to know its a pearler

 

[antiphile]

Coopers have a recipe called Authentic IPA which isn't bad at all; though I agree with everyone here that it does benefit from flavouring and aromatic hopping.