"Black IPA" critque

What do you think guys/gals? Looking for some roast but not over the top. I am worried a bit about the BU-Gu ratio, 1.36 too high? I was thinking of throwing some more hops in at whirlpool too. What about water profile from Bru'n water for this, regular pale ale profile of something else?






American IPA
Type: All Grain Date: 3/16/2013
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.50 gal Brewer: Opposition Brewing Co.
Boil Size: 8.41 gal Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: My All grain Setup
End of Boil Volume 7.28 gal Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
Final Bottling Volume: 5.00 gal Est Mash Efficiency 91.6 %
Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage Taste Rating(out of 50): 30.0
Taste Notes:
Ingredients


Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
10 lbs Pale Malt, Golden Promise (Thomas Fawcett) (3.0 SRM) Grain 1 80.0 %
1 lbs Carapils 6-Row (Briess) (1.3 SRM) Grain 2 8.0 %
8.0 oz Chocolate Malt (450.0 SRM) Grain 3 4.0 %
8.0 oz De-Bittered Black Malt (Dingemans) (550.0 SRM) Grain 4 4.0 %
8.0 oz Munich 20L (Briess) (20.0 SRM) Grain 5 4.0 %
1.00 oz Chinook [13.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 35.1 IBUs
1.00 oz Chinook [13.00 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 7 21.3 IBUs
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 8 6.7 IBUs
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 9 12.7 IBUs
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 10 2.7 IBUs
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 11 0.0 IBUs

You're definitely going to get a dark color with that much black malt in there. The Chocolate Malt will give you the roasty flavor you want but to me it looks to be a little much and off style for an IPA. For my IPAs I concentrate on the 2 row, carapils and crystal and maybe a little munich malt. If you're using the Golden Promise malt which is Scottish but American C hops it's sort of all mixed up to begin with so maybe you just Americanize it all and use the Great Western Malting 2-row and the Wyeast 1056. I must confess I make a Goose Island (non-black) IPA that uses some C-hops on the British base and it does come out close for a clone. But yeah, if you're prepared to add Chocolate Malt to get some roast and make like an overhopped stout go for it. Personally I'd hold back on adding Simcoe. If you want some good high alpha hops I'd suggest Centennial and for bitterness instead of the Chinook, I'd suggest Magnum. But that's just my personal preferences.