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Some Strawberry Lemon Cardamom IPA

193 calories 21 g 12 oz
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Beer Stats
Method: Extract
Style: Specialty IPA: New England IPA
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 2.5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Pre Boil Size: 3.53 gallons
Post Boil Size: 2 gallons
Pre Boil Gravity: 1.041 (recipe based estimate)
Post Boil Gravity: 1.073 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 70% (steeping grains only)
Calories: 193 calories (Per 12oz)
Carbs: 21 g (Per 12oz)
Created: Monday March 24th 2025
1.058
1.016
5.6%
40.6
4.0
n/a
n/a
 
Fermentables
Amount Fermentable Cost PPG °L Bill %
4.80 lb US - Pale 2-Row4.8 lb Pale 2-Row 37 1.8 84.2%
0.60 lb Flaked Oats0.6 lb Flaked Oats 33 2.2 10.5%
0.30 lb Weyermann - Carafoam0.3 lb Carafoam 34.5 2.2 5.3%
5.70 lbs / $ 0.00
 
Hops
Amount Variety Cost Type AA Use Time IBU Bill %
6.40 g magnum6.4 g magnum Hops Pellet 13 Boil 60 min 24.15 7.8%
2.80 g Yakima Chief Hops - Citra2.8 g Citra Hops Pellet 13 Boil 20 min 6.4 3.4%
2.80 g Simcoe2.8 g Simcoe Hops Pellet 12.7 Boil 20 min 6.25 3.4%
2.80 g Artisan - Amarillo2.8 g Amarillo Hops Pellet 7.7 Boil 20 min 3.79 3.4%
2.80 g Yakima Chief Hops - Citra2.8 g Citra Hops Pellet 13 Boil 0 min 3.4%
2.80 g Simcoe2.8 g Simcoe Hops Pellet 12.7 Boil 0 min 3.4%
2.80 g Artisan - Amarillo2.8 g Amarillo Hops Pellet 7.7 Boil 0 min 3.4%
19.60 g Yakima Chief Hops - Citra19.6 g Citra Hops Lupulin Pellet 13 Dry Hop 0 days 23.9%
19.60 g Simcoe19.6 g Simcoe Hops Lupulin Pellet 12.7 Dry Hop 0 days 23.9%
19.60 g Artisan - Amarillo19.6 g Amarillo Hops Lupulin Pellet 7.7 Dry Hop 0 days 23.9%
82 g / $ 0.00
 
Yeast
BSI - A-18 London Ale III
Amount:
1 Each
Cost:
Attenuation (avg):
73%
Flocculation:
Medium
Optimum Temp:
64 - 74 °F
Starter:
No
Fermentation Temp:
-
Pitch Rate:
0.35 (M cells / ml / ° P) 47 B cells required
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Priming
Method: co2       CO2 Level: 2.35 Volumes
 
Target Water Profile
Balanced Profile
Ca+2 Mg+2 Na+ Cl- SO4-2 HCO3-
0 0 0 0 0 0
Quick Water Requirements
Water Gallons  Quarts
Heat water added to kettle 4.24 17  
Mash volume with grains (equipment estimates 4.24 g | 17 qt) 4.7 18.8  
Grain absorption losses (steeping) -0.71 -2.9  
Pre boil volume 3.53 14.1  
Boil off losses -1.5 -6  
Hops absorption losses (first wort, boil, aroma) -0.03 -0.1  
Post boil volume 2 8  
Top off amount 0.5 2  
Going into fermentor 2.5 10  
WARNING: Kettle losses > 2% detected which throw off OG calculation for extract/partial mash recipes in batch target 'fermentor' mode. Solution: Reduce kettle losses, misc losses and hops absorption in equipment profile, OR set batch target to 'kettle' and do a full wort boil. See batch target FAQ.    
Total: 4.74 19
Equipment Profile Used: System Default
 
Notes

Started 3.5gal DI H2O. with 1.25g CaSO4, 2.5g CaCl2, 0.75g MgSO4, 0.75g NaCl. Grist is 0.5lb flaked oats, 5oz carapils, 5lb Rahr Pale ale malt (2L).

1lb4oz strawberries. started frozen. cooked these down at medium heat in a splash of water and 2 tbsp sugar until thick, foamy, and most of the water evaporated.

peeled 1oz lemon peel

Brought water up to temp and added salts. Mashed in with the entire grist including the flaked oats @151F, temp dropped to 147F, kept mash around 147-151 for 1h.

@ start of boil, added 6g Magnum Hops 12%AA

@ 20min left in boil, added 3g each of Amarillo (9.3%), citra(12.8%AA), galaxy (16.9%AA) hops. all hops from artisan hops except Amarillo hops which are BSG

Cardamom: I took one green cardamom pod, lightly toasted it in a pan on the stove, then crushed the pod. I added 2 total of the crushed black seeds from the middle of the pod to the batch. Lots of people have said that cardamom is very overpowering so I'm trying to be conservative and not ruin this beer lol.


Immediately after the boil is finished, I added another 3g of each hop, as well as my cooked down strawberries, cardamom seeds, and my lemon peel. Shortly after adding I wasn't really happy with the amount of strawberry aroma, so I added 2 more handfuls of frozen berries. I stirred immediately after the addition of these ingredients, and did not stir again after, I let the wort sit off the heat for 15min, then began chilling the wort.

I am using the "little DIPA" yeast strain from omega yeast. This is an older pack from the brew store (MFD 07-2024) (this is 03-2025). This is a 150mL pack, I will pitch 75mL. Hopefully this is viable! Saving the other 75mL in a sanitized Tupperware in the fridge for later use. This strain is designed to express some anti-diacetyl enzyme (called ALDC - not sure how this works), which may help with hop creep later? We will see!

not really enough water boiled off: OG 1.042 @Room temp

I'M CHANGING THE PLAN! Just going to bottle this without dry hopping. DOing a fruited light beer I guess!
Bottling with 2.5oz (71g) table sugar.

Final gravity before bottling: 1.000








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