NeIPA, the juicy and fruity beer
NeIPA, the juicy and fruity beer
An American IPA with intense fruit flavors and aromas, a soft body, and smooth mouthfeel, and often opaque with substantial haze. Less perceived bitterness than traditional IPAs but always massively hop forward. This emphasis on late hopping, especially dry hopping, with hops with tropical fruit qualities lends the specific ‘juicy’ character for which this style is known.
BJCP Style Reference
Think about a worm day, you are just sitting in your garden, and you would like to drink a nice cold beer, but not the classic Ale or IPA, you would like to sip a kind of juice, fruity, nicely hopped beer, and here we are, the NeIPA (New Engand IPA) is the one.
The NeIPA is a fairly new style born in New England (USA) more or less in 2010.
Recently became quite popular because of its characteristic fruity flavour and sweet body.
The main difference with the IPA style is the different mouth feel. The NeIPA has a sweeter body, also because of the use of the Oat flakes in the grist. Moreover, this style is not clear as an IPA but is typically hazed.
NeIPA, a short background
The New England IPA falls in the Specialty IPA category of the BJCP guide.
Like an IPA, is strongly hopped with varieties from America region with a tropical fruit, stone fruit, or citrus character only. The grain bill is a bit different because of the presence of oat flakes or wheat and less caramel and specialty malts.
The filtration step is not taking long or not done at all, so the high volume of proteins make the typical NeIPA haziness.
Less bitter and more sweat then an IPA, the NeIPA shows off like a real fruit juice, and the fruity aroma give the characteristic that make your nose telling to your brain that is just a juice.
Our NeIPA Recipe
The idea behind our NeIPA is to have a slightly lighter version as described by the style guideline. A beer you can drink during the summer without getting sweaty (the hot weather is already enough for that).
After few tries and small changes to the grain bill, we got to our goal: something fresh, hoppy, gently bitter and well balanced towards the sweet body. We preferred to have an aroma more oriented to the citrus, reason why the dry hopping profile is more towards citrus.
Below the recipe. If you like to try it out, you are very welcome, don’t forget to leave your comment and results of your batch. Cheers!
Vital Params
| OG | 1.050 |
| FG | 1.010 |
| ABV | 5.4% |
| IBU | 15 |
| Batch size (lt) | 20 |
Grain Bill
| Malt Name | EBC Color | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Maris Otter | 6 | 75 % |
| Vienna | 12 | 18 % |
| Oat flakes | 7 % |
Mash Profile
| Step Name | Target Temp. (°C) | Duration (min) | Ramp (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mash-In | 65 | 10 | |
| Beta | 66 | 60 | 30 |
| Mash-out | 72 | 15 | 8 |
Hopping Profile
| Name | A.A (%) | Usage | Duration (min) | Quantity (gr) | IBU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admiral | 13.2 | Bitterness | 60 | 9 | 14.63 |
| Citra | 12 | Aroma | 15 | 30 | |
| El Dorado | 13.6 | Aroma | 15 | 20 | |
| Azacca | 12.7 | Aroma | 15 | 20 | |
| Citra | 12 | Aroma | 5 | 20 | |
| Citra | 12 | Dry-Hopping | 40 | ||
| El Dorado | 13.6 | Dry-Hopping | 25 | ||
| Azacca | 12.7 | Dry-Hopping | 25 |
Fermentation Profile
Yeast: Fermentis SafAle™ S-04
| Temperature (°C) | Duration (days) |
|---|---|
| 20 | 14 |