I need advice on hops and my recipe in a pumpkin ale

I want to combine Thunderstruck pumpkin ale with the Samhain Pumpkin ale.

I came up with this..
5 gallon recipe
1.064 OG, 1.016 FG, 6.4% ABV

Pale 2 row - 7Lb
Caramel/Crystal 60L - 2Lb
Biscuit Malt - 1Lb
Flaked Wheat - 1Lb
Rice Hulls - 1 Lb
60oz of Canned Pumpkin, carmelized
1/4Lb Molasses
2 tsp Cinnamon+
1 tablet Whirfloc
Dennys Favorite 50 yeast
Vanilla bean in secondary

Hops, I was thinking
1oz Liberty @ 60 mins
.5oz Crystal @10 mins
.5oz Simcoe @ Flameout

Is that an odd choice of Hops? I thought Liberty because it has some spicy cinnamon notes, Crystal for its spice, cinnamon and nutmeg, and simcoe for its piney notes
Beer Calculus shows 16.5 IBu, I would think it would closer to 25..

Does the recipe look ok?

you dont really want much hop presence in a pumpkin beer; you dont want to cover up the spices, vanilla, and pumpkin flavor.

I would not use simcoe at 0, its a pretty strong hop. Ive had good luck using noble hops like hallertau in my pumpkin beers, but my favorites have been fuggle or willamette.

If i were making a pumpkin beer this year I would do Willamette at 60min and Willamette or fuggle at 30 or 20min, nothing later for aroma since i dont want to cover up the pumpkin spice.

also, ive had good luck adding ginger and nutmeg in addition to the cinnamon

Mt. Hood, Cluster, and Magnum are most often used I would say.

Definitely not Simcoe.

So maybe 1oz Mt. Hood @ 60 mins and 1oz Williamette @ 15 mins?

thekage said:

So maybe 1oz Mt. Hood @ 60 mins and 1oz Williamette @ 15 mins?

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that sounds much better than the simcoe in my opinion