I came up with a recipe as a homage to Surly's "Todd the Axeman" ale. They use all Golden Promise and a combo of Citra and Mosaic in a 2:1 ratio. I used all Maris Otter and flipped the hops ratio in the opposite direction, using twice as much Mosaic as Citra, since I had all of those ingredients on hand.
Preliminary results are really good, except that it's really slow to carb. I cold-crashed for a couple days, then racked to a keg on top of 4.5 oz of pellets in a nylon stocking. I like to keg hop at room temp for one week, and during that week I had the gas hooked up too.
Now it's been in the kegerator and cold for a week, carbing alongside a saison and Palmer's Elevenses. The other two beers are carbing nicely, but the IPA is still very minimally-carbed, even though it had an extra week to carb at room temps while dry hopping.
I've heard a hypothesis that IPA's are slow to carb due to hop oils floating on the surface in the keg. What do you guys think? Have you seen that your hoppy beers are slower to carb?