r/Homebrewing • u/NeverBeASlave24601 • 1d ago

Question Recipe advice - Fruity, less bitter IPA

Hello, been brewing for over a year now, got a fair few brews under my belt.

Looking to do my first IPA after mainly working on Ales and Lagers.

What I’m after is a Hazy pale ale with soft tropical fruit aroma and taste, grapefruit and citrus with hints of lemon, orange and coconut. Easy drinking with pine, resin hop and hints of woody, spicy hop. Preferably less bitter, something easy drinking.

I would really appreciate any advice or ideas you guys have.

Thanks

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u/frozennipple 1d ago

Don't add any hops during your boil. You can do something like 4 oz after flameout when you start chilling your wort and let them sit in there for 20 min before chilling to pitching temp. Then 3 days from packaging add another 4 oz for dry hop. 

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u/gofunkyourself69 1d ago

Even in a low-IBU IPA, ideally you'd still want at least a tiny amount of bittering hops during the boil. Though many people skip it and are happy with their beers.

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u/Shills_for_fun 23h ago

I get about 30 IBUs out of hopstand. Not sure I would want any more bitterness than that in a fruity IPA. It's all personal preference of course.

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u/gofunkyourself69 12h ago

Oh yeah you'll definitely get IBU's there. Just in my own experience and experiments done by others (such as Scott Janish) the beer with at least a tiny amount of early boil hops was preferable to one with no boil hops at all.

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u/Shills_for_fun 7h ago

Well you piqued my curiosity. I might do a flameout addition versus a boil though. How many IBUs do you usually try to squeeze out with these early boil hops?

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u/NeverBeASlave24601 1d ago

Ahhh ok, good way to get flavour but none of the bitterness?

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u/brainfud 1d ago

You'll have much less bitterness doing this. I usually use 2 oz hot side depending on aa%

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u/NeverBeASlave24601 1d ago

Nice, thanks for the advice.

I’m thinking a combo of Citra and Sabro hops.

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u/Routine_Bake5794 1d ago

+Nectaron

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u/ESB_4_Me 1d ago

Second Nectaron. Tastes like a fruit cocktail. Should work well for what you're after. Good luck!

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u/brainfud 1d ago

Love Sabro check out talus too

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u/brainfud 1d ago

Aim for between 170 and 180°f for your whirlpool hops. This is good advice. Also use a good yeast for the style pitch enough and oxygenate well

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u/Shills_for_fun 1d ago

Pomona is a good choice for yeast. Much more citrus and slight hint of mango.

Unless you wanted the fruit to be very subtle.

My favorite for giving me the tropical feel is probably Espe though.

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u/NeverBeASlave24601 1d ago

Not looking for subtle at all really wanting as fruity as possible for this one, thanks for the advice

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u/elljawa 1d ago

My general understanding is you'd want to use some sort of British ale yeast, which have more fruity esters.

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u/Jezzwon 1d ago

Pro brewer here, as others have alluded to, do an extended (20 - 30min) whirlpool rest ideally somewhere between 80 - 85c. You can cut your boil down to like half an hour as well for time management. For the whirlpool temp, an easy and safe to do it is to add ice post boil. If you have 20 litres post boil, and add 2 litres of ice, you’ll be in the right temperature band.