colinw
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Does anyone have any clues as to the right malts & hops to get something along the lines of Gage Roads IPA?
I recently tried this, and really enjoyed it. Not quite as hoppy as I would have liked, but certainly a cut above the average, and of the standard I have come to expect from Western Australian craft brews.
What has me beat is an approach to cloning it. Unlike some of the other beers I love, which have identifiable signature malt or hops characters, the Gage Roads beer has nice malt character and complex hops character which I can't tag as any specific variety.
http://www.gageroads.com.au/beers.html gives 5.1% abv and the following unhelpful advice:
Gage Roads IPA is a classic hop driven pale ale brewed with 5 Australian specialty malts and dry hopped with 5 natural hop varieties. It shows notes of dark stone-fruit and citrus within a complex floral aroma. A rewarding ale, it finishes long and dry with a lingering complexity.
The dryness leads me toward relatively limited amounts of crystal, maybe some wheat malt in the mix. I'm suspecting a significant amount of Pilsner malt as opposed to a more highly kilned ale malt. Not mashed particularly high. Probably a quite attenuative but neutral yeast - stick to US-56, Nottingham or high attenuation liquid yeasts like 1056 and WLP007.
Hops - really not sure. Couldn't identify any specific variety in there.
Anyone got any ideas?
thanks,
Colin
Does anyone have any clues as to the right malts & hops to get something along the lines of Gage Roads IPA?
I recently tried this, and really enjoyed it. Not quite as hoppy as I would have liked, but certainly a cut above the average, and of the standard I have come to expect from Western Australian craft brews.
What has me beat is an approach to cloning it. Unlike some of the other beers I love, which have identifiable signature malt or hops characters, the Gage Roads beer has nice malt character and complex hops character which I can't tag as any specific variety.
http://www.gageroads.com.au/beers.html gives 5.1% abv and the following unhelpful advice:
Gage Roads IPA is a classic hop driven pale ale brewed with 5 Australian specialty malts and dry hopped with 5 natural hop varieties. It shows notes of dark stone-fruit and citrus within a complex floral aroma. A rewarding ale, it finishes long and dry with a lingering complexity.
The dryness leads me toward relatively limited amounts of crystal, maybe some wheat malt in the mix. I'm suspecting a significant amount of Pilsner malt as opposed to a more highly kilned ale malt. Not mashed particularly high. Probably a quite attenuative but neutral yeast - stick to US-56, Nottingham or high attenuation liquid yeasts like 1056 and WLP007.
Hops - really not sure. Couldn't identify any specific variety in there.
Anyone got any ideas?
thanks,
Colin