Green Flash West Coast IPA

**kal** · Last edited by kal on Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:11 am; edited 46 times in total

Recipe is here: https://shop.theelectricbrewery.com/pages/green-flash-west-coast-ipa

Questions? Ask below. Cheers!

Kal

ohararp · Joined: 30 Aug 2011 Posts: 29

I just wanted to say that I'll be brewing this up on the 4th of July. Looking forward to it.

ohararp · Joined: 30 Aug 2011 Posts: 29

I just wanted to say that this came out pretty awesome. 3 weeks after brewing and I am enjoying this great beer! It's got a great floral aroma and the hop bitterness is not very high. Granted I love DIPAs. Very good summer brew. 1.072 OG and 1.014 FG. Came out at 7.7% ABV so it'll catch up to you on a hot day!

I have a keggle setup and ended up using whole leaf hops with this and my false bottom for the boil kettle. I added a small stainless scrubby around the dip tube and solved all of my big IPA hop clogging issues.

I've attached a copy of the Beersmith bsmx file. Just rename and you can easily import this.

Thanks for the great recipe Kal!

**kal** · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:05 pm Post subject:

Glad you enjoyed it! I've made it a few times now and plan on making it again soon as I'm all out!

Kal

lostdruid · Joined: 02 Jan 2013 Posts: 6 Location: Johns Creek, GA

1) How much gelatin do you add?
2) Do you use pellets or leaves?

**kal** · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 2:13 pm Post subject: Re: Two questions

jclavel · Joined: 14 Aug 2012 Posts: 20

Brewed 10 gallons in this yesterday. Perfect numbers! Bubbling away at 65F. I'll post results later.

jclavel · Joined: 14 Aug 2012 Posts: 20

Absolutely spectacular. Great water profile suggestion! I love my brewery. Thanks Kal!

**kal** · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 5:39 pm Post subject:

Update: I've made some changes to the recipe to turn this into an actual clone of Green Flash West Coast IPA. The changes were very subtle:

- Replace the Vienna malt with slightly less Carapils malt
- Increase the amount of Crystal 30-40L malt slightly
- Add a 90 min hop addition to bump up the bitterness a bit
- Tone down the 1 minute hop additions slightly
- Add Cascade to the list of dry hops

Enjoy!

Kal

felon · Joined: 20 Aug 2012 Posts: 1 Location: Sydney, Australia

Thanks for a great recipe Kal. I am drinking your older West Coast IPA version with the Vienna and love it. It certainly is a great big beer with loads of aroma and hop flavour without being overly bitter. Seems very well balanced.

**kal** · Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 1:16 pm Post subject:

I'm glad you like it felon!

I brewed the updated recipe ~5 weeks ago (without the 90 minute hops however) and it's been on tap now for a about 2 weeks so I had a pint of it last night. This is definitely one of my favourite recipes and the chages are extremely subtle compared to the original version. This beer's all about hops!

Kal

**kal** · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 5:24 pm Post subject:

JULY 2013 UPDATE: This recipe won first place at an American IPA brewing competition organized by my local homebrew club. Complete details here.

Kal

jim@gsp · Joined: 09 Dec 2014 Posts: 8 Location: Gig Harbor, WA

Hi,

Can someone tell me if this recipe is calling for dry hopping in the primary fermenter or in the secondary?

Thanks

**kal** · Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 12:54 am Post subject:

Up to you but I usually do it in the fermenter as fermentation nears completion. From the recipe:

jim@gsp · Joined: 09 Dec 2014 Posts: 8 Location: Gig Harbor, WA

Thanks, Kal!

I don't use a secondary fermenter. I rack from the primary to a bright tank.

What had be confused is this from the recipe:

1.0 oz Columbus Hops (12.3%) - added dry to secondary fermenter
1.0 oz Simcoe Hops (12.2%) - added dry to secondary fermenter
1.0 oz Centennial Hops (9.2%) - added dry to secondary fermenter
1.0 oz Cascade Hops (6.0%) - added dry to secondary fermenter
1.0 oz Amarillo Hops (8.2%) - added dry to secondary fermenter

jim@gsp · Joined: 09 Dec 2014 Posts: 8 Location: Gig Harbor, WA

I have not had good results with dry hopping to the primary, but I believe that may be due to errors in my previous method.

I use a conical in a closed system.

My plan is to experiment with dry hopping with pellets after the gravity drops to -1.015. I will disconnect the blow-off tube tri-clamp and add the pellets through that opening. I will not re-connect the blow-off, just use a tri-clamp block-off plate.

Do you purge the headspace with CO2 after you dry hop?

Do you add CO2 at any point after dry hopping using a bottom port?

Thanks.

**kal** · Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 2:23 am Post subject:

jim@gsp · Joined: 09 Dec 2014 Posts: 8 Location: Gig Harbor, WA

Thanks much!

rvklein · Joined: 17 Jan 2011 Posts: 20

This is shockingly similar to my house IPA differences being the C Hop portion is more heavily Centennial & Cascade and I like MO as my go to base malt.

I won first place in our club's IPA competition this year after two years of 2nd place finishes with the same beer

Dan Cook · Joined: 14 Jan 2015 Posts: 12 Location: Seattle

Kal, I see a WCIPA clone recipe at BrewersFriend.com (http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/221865/green-flash-west-coast-ipa-clone). Not sure if it was you who created the BrewersFriend recipe or somebody else did and simply referenced you as the inspiration / source, but in any case the recipe calls for a pre-boil gravity of 1.048 and a target OG of 1.069. A 21-point (43%) rise in gravity seems like a lot. Do you ever plan for that much concentration, and if so do you boil for more than 90 mins to accomplish it?

I listened to the original podcast just this morning of The Jamil Show / "Can You Brew It?" for cloning this beer, and the brewer (I think it was Tasty McDole?) mentioned a concentration from pre-boil = 1.054 to OG = 1.069. That seems more in line with my own experience.