California Fad Diet West Coast IPA Beer Kit - Extract

Your California Fad Diet West Coast IPA Label Peelers Original Extract Beer Kit never sits on a shelf. Your grains are crushed to order. Your ingredients are packed fresh and you don't pay for a flashy box. It's all about providing you with the freshest ingredients for you to make your best beer.

The California Fad Diet West Coast IPA Beer Kit - Extract offers a lighter approach to the classic IPA, delivering all the bold hop flavors you crave without the heaviness. This sessionable brew is perfect for those who want to enjoy a crisp, flavorful beer with fewer calories and less alcohol. With an ABV of just 3.8%, it’s ideal for any occasion where you want the bold citrus and pine aroma of a West Coast IPA without the weight.

Using a blend of quality ingredients, this beer kit gives you a well-balanced profile of hops and malts. The Pale Dry Malt Extract forms the base of the beer, offering a clean, crisp finish while the Vienna Malt and Carapils add subtle complexity with their malt-forward characteristics, ensuring the beer’s smoothness without overwhelming sweetness. The result is a brew that’s light on the malt but with enough backbone to carry the hop-forward flavor.

The hop additions are key to the California Fad Diet IPA’s distinctive taste. You’ll experience an upfront burst of bitterness and a piney aroma from the Chinook hops added early in the boil. As the brewing progresses, the Cascade hops introduce a lovely citrusy and floral bouquet, followed by the tropical notes from Simcoe hops in the final stages of brewing. The dry hop addition of Citra hops is where the magic happens, adding a punch of bright, zesty citrus that lingers long after the last sip.

The beer finishes dry, refreshing, and clean, with a moderate IBU of 40 to strike the right balance between hop bitterness and malt sweetness. With a low original gravity of 1.038 and a final gravity of 1.008, it’s a perfect example of a lean and crisp West Coast IPA. Whether you’re enjoying a solo evening or sharing with friends, this beer kit offers all the flavor of a West Coast IPA with a more approachable profile.

This beer kit is a great choice for anyone looking to craft a crisp, flavorful West Coast IPA with the perfect balance of hops and malts.

ABV: 3.8%
IBU: 40
BU/GU: 1.05
Original Gravity (OG): 1.038
Final Gravity (FG): 1.008
SRM: 5
Degrees Plato: 9.5
Disclaimer: All calculations are for approximation purposes only.

HOPS SCHEDULE

1 oz Chinook Hops at 60 minutes.
1 oz Cascade Hops at 15 minutes.
1 oz Simcoe Hops at 5 minutes.

INSTRUCTIONS

Prepare Equipment:

Sanitize all brewing equipment, fermenter, airlock, and any tools that will come into contact with the wort.

Steep Specialty Grains:

Heat 2.5 gallons of water to 155°F in your brew kettle.
Add Vienna Malt and Carapils Malt to a muslin bag and submerge it in the heated water.
Steep the grains for 30 minutes, maintaining a steady temperature.
Remove the muslin bag and allow it to drain into the kettle without squeezing. Discard the grains.

Dissolve Extract:

Remove the kettle from heat and slowly stir in the Pale Dry Malt Extract, ensuring it fully dissolves.
Return the kettle to heat and bring the wort to a rolling boil.

Boil & Hop Schedule:

Boil for 60 minutes, adding hops according to the schedule:
1 oz Chinook Hops at 60 minutes.
1 oz Cascade Hops at 15 minutes.
1 oz Simcoe Hops at 5 minutes.

Cool and Transfer:

After the boil, use an immersion chiller or ice bath to cool the wort to 65°F as quickly as possible.
Pour or siphon the cooled wort into a sanitized fermenter.
Add enough clean, filtered water to bring the total volume up to 5 gallons.
Seal the fermenter with an airlock.

Fermentation:

Pitch 1 packet of American Ale Yeast into the fermenter.
Ferment at 65°F for 10–14 days, ensuring the fermentation temperature remains stable.
Dry Hopping:

After primary fermentation is complete, add 1 oz Citra Hops directly to the fermenter.
Allow the beer to sit for an additional 5 days to extract hop aromas.

Conditioning & Packaging:

Priming for Bottling:

Dissolve 5 oz of priming sugar in 2 cups boiling water and let it cool.
Transfer the beer from the fermenter into a sanitized bottling bucket, leaving behind sediment.
Stir in the priming sugar solution evenly. Aerating your wort at this time ensures your yeast have a healthy fermentation.
Bottle the beer using sanitized bottles and cap them securely.
Store bottles at room temperature for 2-3 weeks for carbonation.
Kegging:

Transfer the beer into a sanitized keg.
Seal and purge oxygen by burping the keg with CO₂.
Set the CO₂ regulator to 12 PSI and store at 38°F for 2-3 weeks before serving.