What Is This Beer?

[Yeastie Beastie]

I whipped up a simpleton a while ago and tried it tonight and it was bloody fantastic :beerbang:

There are so many different styles of beer it all starts to get a bit confusing so I want to ask the general population of AHB what they would classify it as. A longshot but IPA???

1 Can Cascade Imperial Voyager Ale
1.3 KG Black Rock Extract DeMalt Fonce'
300 Grams Dex.
300 Grams Corn Syrup
15 Grams Cascade Hop Pellets (boiled for 15m in 300ml water, strained and added to fermenter at end)
Yeast that came with kit.

Fermented at 26deg for 8 days. Start 1050 (99% sure), bottled at 1002, calculated 6.8% alc vol.

Stayed in bottle for 3 weeks.

It pours really well and I could sort of describe it as a guiness style pour, the head is massive and bubbles downwards like crazy just underneath the head. That glass took 3 attempts to fill. Tastes very malty but very flavoursome and a tad bitter, has a great body to it too.
Nice and smooth, a real winter pleaser.

Have also heard that Cascade doesn't cellar well, 2 1/2 - 3 months and that's it - has anyone else heard this?

What style beer would you classify this as?

 

[Fourstar]

sounds like a hybrid IPA/AIPA to me.

Eithe way if it tastes good on the malt profile, not overtly sweet, uber hoppy its an IPA
if its got the aboves, with lots of sweetness, and upber hoppy on the nose and palate (c hops) its an AIPA.

 

[Adamt]

FG = 1.002? I would check your hydrometer for calibration. With an FG that low I wouldn't think maltiness/great body would be present.

 

[Yeastie Beastie]

FG = 1.002? I would check your hydrometer for calibration. With an FG that low I wouldn't think maltiness/great body would be present.

Good call, it was my Dad's so it has done a few brews.
I just tested pure water at 20 degrees and it read 990.
At 20 degs pure water has a density of 1000 kg/cu.m is this correct?
If so I am glad you picked that up.

Cheers,
Kev.

 

[Yeastie Beastie]

sounds like a hybrid IPA/AIPA to me.

Eithe way if it tastes good on the malt profile, not overtly sweet, uber hoppy its an IPA
if its got the aboves, with lots of sweetness, and upber hoppy on the nose and palate (c hops) its an AIPA.

Took a glass to figure all that out so I may stick with IPA I think.
Any other ideas lol...any excuse for another glass.