Picked an extract/steeped grains brew to start. The recipe I picked was the All Amarillo IPA, found on this site. I say picked, not following, as I pretty much had to substitute every ingredient. Here's what I devised (5 gallon batch):
7 lbs Pale DME
0.5 lbs Carastan 30-37L
1.5 oz. Centennial 8% @ 60
1 oz. Centennial 8% @ 15
1 oz. Centennial 8% @ 5
0.5 oz. Centennial 8% @ flameout
Safale US-05 dry yeast
One particular issue is cropping up when I run the recipe through various brewing software; while they all tend to agree (pretty closely anyway) on ABV, OG, and FG, I am getting major league variations on the IBUs. BeerSmith puts it around 45 BU with a 4 gal. boil, QBrew pegs it at 61 IBU (no ability to set boil vol.), and TastyBrew puts it at 84! IBU with a 4 gal. boil. So who is right??? From what I gather looking at other recipes, this is a pretty light hop bill for an IPA, so I'm leaning towards the BeerSmith calculations as being correct, but was hoping the kind folks here might have some better in-sight.
I'm also curious about how much yeast to use; will one 11.5 g package be enough? I have two on the way, but don't want to waste it if I don't have to.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Awesome site!
7 lbs Pale DME
0.5 lbs Carastan 30-37L
1.5 oz. Centennial 8% @ 60
1 oz. Centennial 8% @ 15
1 oz. Centennial 8% @ 5
0.5 oz. Centennial 8% @ flameout
Safale US-05 dry yeast
One particular issue is cropping up when I run the recipe through various brewing software; while they all tend to agree (pretty closely anyway) on ABV, OG, and FG, I am getting major league variations on the IBUs. BeerSmith puts it around 45 BU with a 4 gal. boil, QBrew pegs it at 61 IBU (no ability to set boil vol.), and TastyBrew puts it at 84! IBU with a 4 gal. boil. So who is right??? From what I gather looking at other recipes, this is a pretty light hop bill for an IPA, so I'm leaning towards the BeerSmith calculations as being correct, but was hoping the kind folks here might have some better in-sight.
I'm also curious about how much yeast to use; will one 11.5 g package be enough? I have two on the way, but don't want to waste it if I don't have to.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Awesome site!