SNPA Clone Recipe - Feedback Requested

I am brewing a SNPA clone recipe this weekend, but made some changes due to hops availability and want to use DME instead of LME. I wanted to get some feedback from the group first!

8 oz caramel malt 30 lovibond
6 oz carapils malt
6 lbs DME light (using instead of 6 lbs. LME light), will do late extract add as well
1.5 oz Perle leaf hops 7.2% for 60 mins (instead of 1.5 oz Perle 8.2%)
2.5 oz Centennial pellet hops 9.5%: 1 oz for 15 mins, 1 oz. for 5 mins and 0.5 oz. for dry hopping (instead of Cascade 5.4% 2.5 oz.) - should I cut this back?
Safale US-05 (instead of 1056)

I like hoppy beer so if I end up with an extra hoppy SNPA that's okay. Thanks for the input!

Might want to up your grain bill a bit. I use 1# Crystal 60L in my recipe. My first try at this was real close to SNPA but I've modified my original recipe and it's currently in primary so I don't know the results yet. Your hops are a little different from mine but I don't have a problem getting Cascade yet. I'm thinking this might become a SNPA IPA! Maybe go with a full oz for dry hopping as that I don't think AA% really has an effect on dry hopping. The yeast is a good one! I'm trying S-04 for my current batch since my LHBS was out of S-05. The 04 blew the lid off my fermenter! But I would up the grain bill

MY .2c worth
Bood luck, Good brewing!

Thanks Brewmando. I have a total of 14 oz of grain (8 oz caramel 30 and 6 oz carapils)...isn't that enough? Should I cut back the hops?

Here's my SNPA clone - take it for what you will. It's AG, but basically just sub out the base-malt pale grain for liquid/dry extract. I'd keep steeping grains the same or similar. This hits SNPA in about all the right key statistical areas (color, IBU, gravity, etc):

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Boil Size: 6.20 gal
Estimated OG: 1.054 SG
Estimated Color: 7.6 SRM
Estimated IBU: 37.5 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
9.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 90.00 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 5.00 %
0.25 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 2.50 %
0.25 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 2.50 %
0.33 oz Magnum [14.00 %] (60 min) Hops 16.5 IBU
0.33 oz Pearle [8.00 %] (45 min) Hops 8.7 IBU
0.50 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (20 min) Hops 6.0 IBU
0.50 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (10 min) Hops 3.6 IBU
0.50 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (5 min) Hops 2.0 IBU
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (1 min) Hops 0.8 IBU
1 Pkgs SafAle American Ale (DCL Yeast #S-05) Yeast-Ale

So, I ran your ingredients into Beersmith for you and tweaked it a bit. This should get you close to SNPA:

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Boil Size: 6.20 gal
Estimated OG: 1.056 SG
Estimated Color: 9.2 SRM
Estimated IBU: 37.6 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: - %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
6.25 lb Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 87.72 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 7.02 %
0.38 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 5.26 %
1.00 oz Pearle [7.20 %] (45 min) Hops 23.4 IBU
0.50 oz Centennial [9.50 %] (15 min) Hops 8.3 IBU
0.50 oz Centennial [9.50 %] (7 min) Hops 4.5 IBU
0.50 oz Centennial [9.50 %] (2 min) Hops 1.4 IBU
1 Pkgs SafAle American Ale (DCL Yeast #S-05) Yeast-Ale

1.00 oz Centennial [9.50 %] (Dry Hop 7 days) Hops -

NOTE: With your hopping schedule at 1.5oz 60, and more centennial (1oz versus .5 at 15, etc.) - the beer would be much more bitter (57.7IBU versus the 37.7 in the above recipe). I know you said you don't mind that, but SNPA is near-perfect the way it is... Why change a good thing?! To me a 1.055OG beer with close to 60 IBU is a little out of balance, but thats just me. I'd at least drop another 1lb or so of DME into the recipe if I was going to go for 60IBU...

Thanks for taking the time to help me out!

Yeah...

Keep your ratio of OG to IBU gravity at about 1.4 to 1.

SNPA has an IBU of 37 and a gravity of 1.053. (53 / 37 = 1.4)

Doing a 60-IBU over a 55 gravity, you're not going to get the malt profile to come through.

I know you said that you have a selected choice of hops, but if you can you should use cascade. SNPA is known for cascade hops. . In my SNPA clone I used Chinook and NB for bittering and cascade for flavor/aroma/dry hopping.

Also...dryhopping isn't affected(pretty sure) by AA %. It is just for aroma, so the total oz is what matters, not the AAU.

nl724 said:

I know you said that you have a selected choice of hops, but if you can you should use cascade. SNPA is known for cascade hops. . In my SNPA clone I used Chinook and NB for bittering and cascade for flavor/aroma/dry hopping.

Also...dryhopping isn't affected(pretty sure) by AA %. It is just for aroma, so the total oz is what matters, not the AAU.

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The nose of SNPA is a cascade bomb. I'd like to know their dryhop schedule. :rockin: