What style would you classify this recipe as?

[causerofwait]

all-grain, 11gal, Batch Sparge, 154deg steep, 70min boil, OG=14, 67.5 IBU

74.5% 2-row pale base malt
12.7% Munich Malt
8.5% Crystal 60
4.25% Cara-Pils
3oz Magnum (Bittering, 67.5 IBU)
.75oz EK Gold (4.5%) 10min
.75oz EK Gold (4.5%) 5min
.75oz EK Gold (4.5%) 1min
US-05 yeast

thanks for the input!

[vw addict]

I'd say very ESB like, except for the yeast. Maybe an American Amber?

[brazilhead]

My opinion, compared to the knowledge of many of those here, is most humble at best. Still, to me that sure looks like an APA despite the Golds.

[vw addict]

It's hard to classify with that combo of IBU's/hop varieties/and yeast. You could probably enter it into a few categories, I don't think it would do well in any of them though if it was a comp.

[JayShaw91]

With that high IBU amount, it tends to push it out of most categories I'd think a beer that light in gravity/color would fit in to.

IPA guidelines: http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style14.php

[darylM]

Do you have a drinkable sample? With that OG/BU ratio I would be thinking the "liquid hops" catagory. :eek:

[markaberrant]

Do you have a drinkable sample? With that OG/BU ratio I would be thinking the "liquid hops" catagory. :eek:

more like "liquid bitterness," as most of the hops are added at 60 minutes, with very little finishing hops.

If it was me, I'd cut the bittering addition in half, swap the yeast (S-04 or Nottingham if you want to stick with dry), and call it an ESB.

[causerofwait]

I appreciate the reply's! This is a beer I made about a month ago, originally made 3 years ago based on a Pike IPA if IIRC. Years ago I remember this being a very hoppy, nice PA/IPA so I made it again expecting/hoping the same result. My guess, after having consumed a couple of gallons over the past few weeks it that it is more like an ESB (I don't have any experience with an ESB other than Redhook) or maybe even a strong ale or a winter warmer ale. It seems to change (i guess because of aging) every couple of days. In the beginning it tasted like alcoholic banana water. I was disappointed at first but now I kind of like it. It seems sweet, strong, somewhat fruity and not hoppy at all. It just made me wonder what I did wrong considering I thought I was brewing a PA/IPA. That's why I kind of left this post open (not giving my own opinions) in the beginning so I could get feedback based on the ingredients. I hope to take it to my homebrew club, tell them the ingredients, and let them taste it and give me their opinions of it's style before I tell them this was supposed to be an IPA. I'm even dryhopping (with EKG) in the keg but I still can't seem to get the hoppy aroma I was looking for. I have another 5gal in reserve (dryhopping it also) so I am interested in seeing how that tastes in a few weeks. Can anyone suggest a good commercial example of an ESB or strong ale that I could do a comparison to?

Thanks again, homebrewing wouldn't be as fun without boards like this to talk about it!

[BrewDog]

From the BJCP style guidelines http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/catdex.php

ESB- Fullers ESB, Adnams Broadside, Shepherd Neame Bishop's Finger, Young’s Ram Rod, Samuel Smith’s Old Brewery Pale Ale, Bass Ale, Whitbread Pale Ale, Shepherd Neame Spitfire, Marston’s Pedigree, Black Sheep Ale, Vintage Henley, Mordue Workie Ticket, Morland Old Speckled Hen, Greene King Abbot Ale, Bateman's XXXB, Gale’s Hordean Special Bitter (HSB), Ushers 1824 Particular Ale, Hopback Summer Lightning, Great Lakes Moondog Ale, Shipyard Old Thumper, Alaskan ESB, Geary’s Pale Ale, Cooperstown Old Slugger, Anderson Valley Boont ESB, Avery 14’er ESB, Redhook ESB



Strong Ale - Gale’s Prize Old Ale, Burton Bridge Olde Expensive, Marston Owd Roger, Greene King Olde Suffolk Ale , J.W. Lees Moonraker, Harviestoun Old Engine Oil, Fuller’s Vintage Ale, Harvey’s Elizabethan Ale, Theakston Old Peculier (peculiar at OG 1.057), Young's Winter Warmer, Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild, Samuel Smith’s Winter Welcome, Fuller’s 1845, Fuller’s Old Winter Ale, Great Divide Hibernation Ale, Founders Curmudgeon, Cooperstown Pride of Milford Special Ale, Coniston Old Man Ale, Avery Old Jubilation