Threw together this Ordinary Bitter recipe, looking for feedback

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damdaman

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I'm trying to create something that will be light and not too alcoholic, but still be flavorful and fairly bitter (I'm a hop head). Here's what I came up with:

3.5lbs LDME
12oz british pale malt
12oz british crystal 50L
.5oz n. brewer 60min
.5oz n. brewer 45min
.5oz n. brewer 30min
.5oz n. brewer 15min
1oz kelt goldings 15min
1oz kent goldings flameout

According to the beer recipator:
Color: 9srm
Bitterness: 46ibu
OG: 1.036
Est. FG: 1.009
ABV: 3.5%

So this seems to fit the bill. I am a little worried that this might be too hoppy for this kind of beer though, but I do like hops more than a lot of folks.

What do you guys think?
 
Well, you're off scale for IBUs and too many flavor/aroma hops for the style.

As a small Pale Ale, it looks fine.
 
Ahh yes, I see that the upper IBUs for Ordinary Bitters is 35. I wonder if I should cut down some of the hops to bring it in line or just brew this and see how I like it.
 
After playing with the numbers I think I'm going to go with

1oz. n brewer 60min
.5oz n brewer 45min
.5oz n brewer 30min
1oz kent goldings 5min

and reduce the boil size to 2 gallons. Recipator says that should give me 36ibu which I'll call "close enough" to call it an Ordinary Bitter. :)

Thanks for the feedback.
 
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