Making a scratch batch with my left over grains, any pointers?

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I don't have enough experience making my own recipes to know what this is going to taste like. The first one contains everything I have, the second one is without the black patent malt and adding the Northern Brewer hops earlier.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Should I leave stuff out, rearrange the hop additions? I also have 2oz of bourbon chips and a bunch of vanilla beans left over. I'm leaning towards the second one at this point.

With Black Patent, everything I have left over

Recipe: Scratch Batch #1 TYPE: All Grain Style: American Brown Ale
---RECIPE SPECIFICATIONS-----------------------------------------------
SRM: 28.2 SRM
IBU: 28.5 IBUs
OG: 1.059 SG
FG: 1.013 SG
ABV: 6.1 %
Batch: 5.00 gal

7 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 60.9 %
12.0 oz Black (Patent) Malt (500.0 SRM) Grain 2 6.5 %
12.0 oz White Wheat Malt (2.4 SRM) Grain 3 6.5 %
8.0 oz Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM) Grain 4 4.3 %
8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 15L (15.0 SRM) Grain 5 4.3 %
8.0 oz Carapils (Briess) (1.5 SRM) Grain 6 4.3 %
8.0 oz Honey Malt (25.0 SRM) Grain 7 4.3 %
8.0 oz Melanoiden Malt (20.0 SRM) Grain 8 4.3 %
8.0 oz Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 9 4.3 %

---BOIL PROCESS-----------------------------
Est Pre_Boil Gravity: 1.049 SG Est OG: 1.059 SG Amt Name Type # %/IBU
0.20 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [16.30 %] - Boil 60. Hop 10 13.4 IBUs
0.75 oz Northern Brewer [9.60 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 11 15.1 IBUs
0.50 oz Willamette [4.70 %] - Aroma Steep 5.0 mi Hop 12 0.0 IBUs


Without Black Patent

Recipe: Scratch Batch #1 - No BP TYPE: All Grain Style: American Pale Ale
---RECIPE SPECIFICATIONS-----------------------------------------------
SRM: 7.2 SRM
IBU: 42.9 IBUs
OG: 1.056 SG
FG: 1.012 SG
ABV: 5.8 %
Batch: 5.00 gal

7 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 65.1 %
12.0 oz White Wheat Malt (2.4 SRM) Grain 2 7.0 %
8.0 oz Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM) Grain 3 4.7 %
8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 15L (15.0 SRM) Grain 4 4.7 %
8.0 oz Carapils (Briess) (1.5 SRM) Grain 5 4.7 %
8.0 oz Honey Malt (25.0 SRM) Grain 6 4.7 %
8.0 oz Melanoiden Malt (20.0 SRM) Grain 7 4.7 %
8.0 oz Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 8 4.7 %

---BOIL PROCESS-----------------------------
Est Pre_Boil Gravity: 1.047 SG Est OG: 1.056 SG Amt Name Type # %/IBU
0.75 oz Northern Brewer [9.60 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 9 29.6 IBUs
0.20 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [16.30 %] - Boil 60. Hop 10 13.4 IBUs
0.50 oz Willamette [4.70 %] - Aroma Steep 5.0 mi Hop 11 0.0 IBUs
 
I definitely like the 2nd recipe better. In the 1st recipe, that much black patent malt would be too strong for the rest of it... maybe its just me. :)

The pale ale sure could use a little more hops towards the end of the boil. Would be great to have more Willemette at 5-min left or something. If you can only use what you have here, you might consider moving the Columbus to the last few minutes (2-5min) of the boil. The drop in IBU is totally fine for an APA, and pickup some hop flavor/aroma from the Columbus would be nice.

Happy Brewing!
:mug:
--LexusChris
 
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