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panicbuttonguy

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I'm looking for feedback on these recipes. My goal is to create a classic APA that will appeal to a wide variety of people. I want a hop forward, balanced bitter, and a nose of citrus beer. Here are my recipe ideas. I tried to create a variety of grain bills to see what the color and taste effects would be. These will all be batch sparged. Also I'm probably going to use WY1056 and WY1272 but having a tough time deciding. Please let me know what you think and if you see any problems or things you would change before I pull the trigger on ingredients.

#1
6.0 lbs Pale Malt
3.0 lbs Golden Promise
.75 lbs C40
.50 lbs Honey Malt
.75 oz Simcoe @ 60
1 oz Amarillo @ 15
1 oz Simcoe @ 10
2 oz mix Amarillo & Simcoe @ flame out
1.5 oz mix Amarillo & Simcoe Dry Hop
Mashed @ 152

#2
9.5 lbs Pale Malt
.5 lbs C80
.5 lbs Mild
1 oz Horizon @ 60
.5 oz Galaxy @ 10
1 oz Summit @ 5
1.5 oz mix Galaxy and Summit Dry Hop
Mashed @ 151

#3
9 lbs Pale malt
.5 lbs C60
.5 Victory
1 oz Cascade @ 60
1 oz Cascade @ 10
1 oz Cascade @ 5
1 oz Cascade @ flame out
1.5 oz Mix of Centennial & Ahtanum Dry hop
Mashed @ 152

#4
9 lbs Pale
1 lb C60
.5 oz Galena @ 60
1 oz Ahtanum @ 10
1 oz Chinook @ 5
1oz Centennial @ flame out
Mashed @ 150
 
I'm not familiar with Golden Promise, and a couple of the hops are varieties I haven't tried, but otherwise, they all look viable. #4 looks the simplest - you could start there. I think you should brew them all in turn, if you have the ingredients.
 
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