Citra IPA Recipe for Home Brewers
This is the recipe for our Citra IPA. We don’t mind publishing these, there’s no ‘secret sauce’ to these recipes and part of the pleasure in brewing beer is sharing – so we are sharing all our recipes. If you brew the beer let us know, and if you want to buy a recipe kit it’s here: Citra IPA Recipe Kit
All of our recipe kits are designed to use a starting volume of 23lt, which should yield 18lt into the keg or bottles, and a brewhouse efficiency of 70%. This is the complete recipe, it can be scaled to suit any batch size.
I guess Citra is on everbodies favourite list when it comes to hops and we are no different; it’s a wonderful hop to work with and produces brilliant beers.
Citra IPA Recipe
Original Gravity 1.049 Final Gravity 1.009 ABV 5.2% IBU 26.8 SRM 4.7
Fermentables:
3.5kg Maris Otter – Classic English pale ale malt
250gm Torrified Wheat – To promote head retention
250gm Malted Naked Oats – Mouthfeel / body
Hops:
Citra – Punchy aroma and flavouring hop
Yeast:
Safale US05
Mash Guidelines:
Mash temp 66°C for 60 min
Boil 60 min
Hop Schedule:
10gm Citra at first wort or as boil starts
10gm Citra at 5 minutes before flameout
10gm Citra at flameout
10gm Citra dry hop – at 3 and 5 days into fermentation
Yeast Pitch:
15-20°C Ideally 18°C and fermented to final gravity – expect 5-7 days.