![]() If you want to make a middle of the road Session IPA, I'd shoot for an ABV between 4.5 and 5%, an OG of around 1.045, an IBU of about 40, a color around 4-5 SRM, use one of US-05, WLP001, or Wyeast 1056 American Ale Yeast, fermented on the cool side, and dry hopped with. ![]() I also wanted to examine mash temperature, but the files I downloaded lacked this information. The stats I'm interested in examining are ABV, OG, FG, IBU, IBU:SG, SRM, dry hopping rate, and yeast choice. Out came my copy of Designing Great Beers and How to Brew and I got to work. This meant I needed to write code to calculate these values. I set about writing a web scraper to download as many recipes from the recipe website as I could and ended up downloading about 300k recipes, of which 577 contained the words "session" and "ipa" in the title.Īfter examining some the downloaded BeerXML documents, I noticed that while they contained the ingredients, they lacked the important statistics like OG, FG, IBU, etc. Luckily there exist websites with recipe databases that happen to export the recipes in a standardized format called BeerXML. I wanted to see how people were interpreting the style by examining some recipes. In general, a session IPA seems to be defined as a scaled down IPA, usually coming in under 4.5% ABV, with around 50-60 IBU and enough mouthfeel to not feel thin or watery. What is a "Session IPA?" There isn't a defined BJCP style for it.Īny beer is a session beer if you try hard enough.
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