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5.0 stars based on 5 votes
Beer Style: American Pale Ale, India Pale Ale
Recipe Type: partial mash
Yield: 5 gallons
Description:
American IPA is a bold, hop-forward gluten-free craft beer that showcases how great IPA flavor and balance. Built on a base of pale buckwheat, biscuit rice, and corn malts alongside sorghum syrup, candi sugar, molasses, and honey, this recipe creates a clean, fermentable wort with layered depth and subtle sweetness. Cluster, Cascade, and Fuggles hops provide a classic American IPA profile with firm bitterness, bright citrus, and herbal complexity, while dry hopping with Cascade enhances aroma and freshness. The result is a well-rounded, flavorful gluten-free IPA that consistently impresses both gluten-free and traditional beer drinkers alike.
DISCLAIMER: We are not aware of any manufacturer that claim their flaked corn is free from cross-contamination.
Ingredients:
- Grain Bill ---------------------------------------
- 8 oz Pale Buckwheat Malt
- 8 oz Biscuit Rice Malt
- 8 oz Corn Malt or Flaked Corn
- Fermentable Bill ---------------------------------------
- 6 lbs 10 oz White Sorghum Syrup
- 8 oz Molasses
- 6 oz Belgian Dark Candi Sugar
- 9 oz Honey
- Hop Bill Summary ---------------------------------------
- 2 oz Cluster Hops
- 2 oz Cascade Hops
- 1 oz Fuggles Hops
- Other Ingredients ---------------------------------------
- 1 tsp Irish Moss
- 1 pkg US-05 Yeast
Additional Instructions
Primary Ferment: 7 days at 68 degreesSecondary Ferment: 7 days at 68 degrees
Beer Profile
Original Gravity: 1.061Final Gravity: 1.012
Alcohol by Vol: 5.9%
Color SRM: 13.0
Bitterness IBU: 43.0
Recipe Type: partial mash
Yield: 5.0 Gallons
Procedure:
Steep milled malt along with amylase enzyme in 2 gallons of water at 163.4F for 30 - 45 minutes. Use the appropriate amount of rice hulls to ensure circulation and filtration. Sparge malt with 170F water until water runs clear. Top kettle up to 6.5 gallon pre-boil size. Bring to boil.
Remove from heat and add sorghum syrup, molasses and candi sugar (this prevents scorching the syrup), return to boil allow to achieve hot break.
2 oz Cluster Hops (60 min)
0.5 oz Cascade Hops (15 min)
0.5 oz Fuggles Hops (15 min)
1 tsp Irish Moss (15 min)
0.5 oz Cascade Hops (1 min)
0.5 oz Fuggles Hops (1 min)
9 oz Honey (flameout; careful not to scorch)
1 pkg US-05 Yeast
Yeast nutrients per dosing and time addition recommendations
Dry Hopping:
1 oz Cascade Hops
Recipe Note: This recipe was most likely developed between 2010-2014 before buckwheat, millet and rice malt was widely available. Therefore, it utilizes many gluten-free ingredients readily found at a LHBS or grocery store.