New pale ale I am doing.

Thought it over and this is what I am going to make.

6# Light LME
1# Light DME
8 oz. carapils
8 oz. 40L
8 oz. Golden naked oats.

Hops,
.5 oz. cascade 60 min. AA 7.1%
1 oz. chinook leaf home grown 60 min. AA ?
.5 oz. cascade 40 min. AA 7.1%
1 oz. chinook leaf 40 min. AA ?
1 oz. amarillo 15 min. 8.2%
1 oz. amarillo 5 min. 8.2%
1 oz. ahtanum at 2 min. 4.5%

After reading and taking the advice of everybody I think this looks like a good recipe. I am open to suggestions as to hop schedule.

Thanks

I'm confused. Either this is a ten gallon batch and your OG is half of what it should be or it's a 5 gallon batch and you IBU's are twice what they need to be (>80 IBU).

I'm assuming 5 gal - I would cut all the hop additions in half.

Yeah that's way too much hops for a pale ale. Just to make sure, I put the recipe in Beer Smith and it came up just short of 130 IBUs assuming you're doing a full volume boil. Even cutting them in half still puts you in IPA territory.

Personally, I would cut all the additions in half, and remove the 40 minute chinook addition entirely. Assuming you're getting typical AA% for your homegrown stuff, the chinook is around 13% and two big additions like that in a pale ale is way too much.

Its a five gallon, and now I am thinking it is more of a IPA. I will have to rethink and adjust the hops.

Thanks for the in put.

You have the grain bill of an APA but the hop bill of an IPA but if that is what you are going for...

No I am shooting for an APA, I want less hop character then an IPA. So I need to adjust the hop accordingly.

Not sure how, I guess I should leave the Home Grown Chinnoks out?

As I said before, I would cut all your hops additions in half, with the exception of the 40 minute chinook addition, which I'd remove completely.

think i will do that, Thanks for your help.

As a general rule, you should not use homegrown hops for bittering, as the AA's are not determinable. I calculated your Chinook AA's at 10 and it was still way high. I think an APA would not use more than 3 oz of hops and most times could get away with 2 oz if an appropriate bittering hop is used for 5 gal.

Grizzlybrew said:

As a general rule, you should not use homegrown hops for bittering, as the AA's are not determinable. I calculated your Chinook AA's at 10 and it was still way high. I think an APA would not use more than 3 oz of hops and most times could get away with 2 oz if an appropriate bittering hop is used for 5 gal.

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+1 on this.

I just use homegrown hops for flavoring and aroma.

+3, Scale back the hops. Otherwise it looks good. Use this chart to get what you want:

homegrown hops are awesome, but i don't trust them for bittering. the 60 minute hop needs to be precise to get any kind of precision and repeatability in your brewing.