Weyermann® Almanac Beer Recipe
Beer recipe: India Pale Lager (IPL)
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Hops in the Beer recipe
This India Pale Lager showcases a clean, malt-forward backbone with bright American hop expression. It blends lager crispness with an IPA-like aroma. As a result, the beer remains refreshing yet flavour-driven.
Cluster provides bittering, creating a firm and traditional bitterness. Meanwhile, Columbus and Galena (option 1) highlight classic fruity, spicy, and mild citrus notes.
Alternatively, Citra®, Mosaic®, and Idaho-7™ (option 2) deliver a modern profile packed with tropical fruit, citrus, and resin.
Both hop approaches maintain balance and drinkability. Therefore, each option offers a distinct yet authentic India Pale Lager interpretation.
MALT in the beer recipe
There are two equally illogical interpretations of the India Pale Lager. It is either an IPA fermented with lager yeast; or it is a lager hopped the IPA way with plenty of bitter, flavor, and aroma hops, as well as plenty of dry-hopping. Either way, the result is much the same.
With these broad guidelines, there are many different ways to produce an IPL. The recipe proposed here is for an “IPA-ified” lager loaded with American hops. It is malt-accented (Munich Malt and CARAHELL® make up 30% of the grist), ivory-colored, unfiltered, and slightly yeast-turbid. It has a slender body. Above the brew’s fine and compact head rises a strong and hoppy bouquet of red fruit, berries, and blackcurrants. The hops are the pungent, allspice-and-pepper Cluster, America’s oldest indigenous, cultivated hop, for bitterness; the floral-spicy Columbus and the mildly citrus-like Galena in the whirlpool for aroma; and Cluster and Galena for dry-hopping
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