Homebrew Recipe: IP…L?

I brewed this recipe this past January… and I’m still drinking them as it’s only grown better with age.

Truth be told, this was a screw-up. I had purchased the ingredients for a few different recipes – an IPA, an amber ale, and a Steam Beer – as I usually do, and I stored the WYEAST packets in the corner of the fridge. My intention on this particular day was to brew an IPA, but I popped the priming bag in the packet of California Lager yeast by accident. Unfortunately – at least for the integrity of my original recipe – I didn’t notice this mistake until I went to pour the primed yeast into the wort.

My original intention was to create a strongly malted IPA with a good hop backbone.

The recipe is as follows:

Fermentables –

• 1 lb of Crystal 20
• 1/2 lb toasted barley
• 5 lbs Pils DME
• 3 lbs Amber DME

Additions –

• 2 oz Northern Brewer @ boil
• 1 oz Saaz @ boil
• 1 tsp Irish Moss @ t-10 min
• 1 oz Cascade @ t-2 min
• 1 oz Summit @ t-2 min
• 1 oz Chinook – dry hop

Yeast –

• California Lager WYEAST

The brewing process was pretty simple: a 30 minute steep of the grains, addition of the extract, a 60 minute boil, the yeast addition, 14 days in the primary, and 14 days in the secondary to dry-hop.