Tuatara India Pale Ale

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You can’t hold your head up in fine brewing circles these days without a decent India Pale Ale in your repertoire, and Tuatara makes this one true to form. Traditionally, IPAs were brewed with prodigious hopping so they’d make the trip to the Raj in one piece, but the brewing itself was actually done in the mother country. Tuatara’s is a proper English-style IPA. That means a full malt body, not too dark in colour, and hopped up for plenty of bitterness.

5%
Available in 330ml & 500ml bottles, and from the tap

Hopped With
Pacific Jade to bitter, Chinook and Styrian Goldings for flavour and aroma.

Seems a good beer to clone as any?

Thinking about this:

5kg maris otter

300g munich

300g med crystal

80g acid malt

Hops: 

60min - pacific jade 14g

30min - chinook 14g

15min - NZ Styrian 20g, 10g NZ Chinook

Flameout - NZ Styrian 30g, 15g NZ Chinook

??THOUGHTS?? Any changes?

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Switching out M/O with GP.

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Switched out the 30min with
10g each on Nz chinook and Nz styrian.
Hit OG of 1.054

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/right, so I've thrown this into the national Case swap that the legendary pepter Organised.

I won't influence you too much , but I'm drinking the beer now an there are a few differences with the beer, to the commercial version.

I was told after vrewing this, that the beer uses Pilsner malt as the base?

the other main thing I'm noticing is the yeast character, I'm finding the homebrew has significantly more esters than the commercial version, which leads me to believe that they actually use US-05/WLP001/WY1056.

I aklso belive a significant Dryhop is required a swell.Mine was only small, and hasn't brought out the hops as much as I'd hoped, although thiscould be the nottingham hiding some of that lovely hop characer /I was looking for, 

the beer also finished slightly drier than I was looking for, but hey, live an learn.
I probably won't get around to brewing another version of this for quite some time, but a good starting poinjt for anyone interested in brewing this or a version of this.