Today I’m brewing a Jasmine IPA loosely based on Elysian’s Avatar. Avatar (the name greatly pre-date the movie hype) is one of my wife’s favorite beers, so I thought I’d give it a try. I picked up some jasmine via the web from a local reseller on Etsy. The bag arrived yesterday. I’m not entirely convinced by the experiment, and since this is a double batch (10 gallons), I’ll probably only do 5 gallons as the jasmine brew and the other as a dry hopped IPA using Simcoe hops. Here’s the base recipe. We’ll see if I go through with the split or just decide to do 10 gallons of Jasmine.
Malt
- 17 lbs domestic 2-Row
- 5 lbs Weyermann Pilsner
- 1 lb domestic Munich
- 1 lb Crystal 40L
Hops
- 2 oz Simcoe @ 60 min
- 2 oz Simcoe @ 10 min
- 1 oz Simcoe @ 2 min
- 1 oz Simcoe @ dryhop for 1/2 of the batch
Adjunct
- 2 oz dried Jasmine @ 10 min
- 2 oz @ flameout
- 1-2 oz dryhop (is that a verb?)
- Safale S-05 American Ale yeast x 2