wild spirit ipa

[zorak1066]

so sunday i bottled a choc milk stout and had time to kill. what better way to finish the day than making a quick and easy kit? so i threw together my recently purchased wild spirit ipa and made it totally as is. my only change was using 9g of the fromunda yeast instead of the included 4g.

in less than 3 hrs it started fizzing away and in no time i had 3 inches of solid krausen! (pitched warm, brought temp down to 65-67f.. did not rehydrate yeast).

in 3 days the krausen has already started to fall and the hoppy smell coming out of the ferm chiller is outstanding! any idea what hops they use? i would guess at cascade and something else.

the whole brew process took less than an hour from set up to end of clean up. what a nice change! sometimes the simple things are the best.

[Gymrat]

Nice. You don't do any hop additions to this? Just extract?

[zorak1066]

nope... as is out of the can. it smells pretty hoppy on its own.

[dad2all5]

Im not sure about what hops they use, I just finished bottling 2 batches, one with the 2 cans of wild spirit, and a batch of what I call IPA Lite, with a can of wild spirit / a can of red horse mellow amber. Both smell good and taste great. Cant wait until conditioning is finished for final taste test.

[Ibasterd]

zorak1066, how did this turn out. I was thinking about getting the Wild spirit IPA for my next batch and was wondering if it could use any additional hops or if it is good as is. I have recently "rediscovered" IPAs and am really enjoying some Stone IPA.

[Wings_Fan_In_KC]

Hey Basterd, did you ever make MrBeer's American Devil IPA?

This is the same mix and it's a great base for making a nice amber IPA.

It's one of the better "old" MrBeer HME's. I've made three of four brews using this as a base.

[Ibasterd]

Wings_Fan_In_KC did you do any hop additions? if so what did you do. I really think i'm gonna try hopping something up. cant decide whether to dry hop or do a boil for my first attempt.

[Wings_Fan_In_KC]

Lemme go look at QBrew a minute.

[Wings_Fan_In_KC]

OK, this was around my 5th or 6th batch so I was steeping grains and adding hops but had not started to dry hop at that point. As I recall, I didn't "need" to dry hop this one. Also, I'll confess that I didn't make the recipe with 2 cans of ADIPA as MrBeer wants you to, I used one can and saved one can for another recipe.

Grains/Malts
One can ADIPA
1.75 lbs Amber DME
0.25 lbs Crystal 60 steeped for 30 minutes

Started with 1 pound DME in 1 gallon of water for the boil. (Steeped Crystal 60 in 1/2 gal, rinsed with another 1/2 gal and then combining the two pots into one.)

Hops
.25 oz Centennial at 30 min
.25 oz Centennial at 18 min
.25 oz Cascade at 15 min
.25 oz Cascade at 8 min

After the hop boils, I took the hop sacks out and rested on a sanitized plate while I added the HME and the remaining .75 lbs of DME. After that was stirred in well, I put the hop sacks back into the wort while it cooled in the water/ice bath for about 20 min - like a modified hop stand.

This was the first IPA I made and we (wife and I) liked it a lot. It was amber in color and very nice. It was just under 50 IBU so it wasn't crazy but I wanted to rein it in the first time out and not make a 60+ IBU beer.

[Ibasterd]

Thanks Wings_Fan_In_KC. I think I'm going to do something very similar very soon.