Critique my "Kitchen Sink" Red IIPA

[Rush]

During a sale a month or two ago, I purchased an irish red kit and a sierra Nevada pale ale clone kit, both extract + steeping grains. I have similar beers in the pipeline currently and I'd like to use these ingredients plus some extra hops to make a unique IIPA.

I'm mainly asking for critiques on the hop schedule, since I know I won't be using these grains for any other recipes since they are already premixed.

Would you change the hop schedule around? Is this fine, as is?

I have a pound of each of the follow that I can use: Columbus, Cascade, Centennial Warrior, Nugget

Kitchen Sink IIPA

Method: Extract
Style: Double IPA
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 5.5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Boil Size: 5.5 gallons
OG: 1.087 (recipe based estimate)
Estimated FG: 1.017
Estimated ABV: 9.2
IBU (tinseth): 107

Fermentables

Amount Fermentable PPG °L Bill %
6 lb Liquid Malt Extract - Light 35 4 41.4%
6 lb Liquid Malt Extract - Light 35 4 41.4%
1 lb Dry Malt Extract - Light 42 4 6.9%

Steeping Grains

Amount Fermentable PPG °L Bill %
0.5 lb American - Caramel / Crystal 60L 34 60 3.4%
0.5 lb Belgian - CaraMunich 33 50 3.4%
0.25 lb American - Special Roast 33 50 1.7%
0.125 lb Belgian - Biscuit 35 23 0.9%
0.125 lb United Kingdom - Pale Chocolate 33 207 0.9%

Hops

Amount Variety Type AA Use Time IBU
1 oz Chinook Pellet 13AA First Wort 19.47
0.75 oz Warrior Pellet 14.3AA Boil 60 min 26.53
0.75 oz Nugget Pellet 13.5AA Boil 45 min 22.99
1 oz Cascade Pellet 6.8AA Boil 15 min 8.35
2 oz Centennial Pellet 10AA Boil 10 min 17.94
2 oz Cascade Pellet 6.8AA Boil 10 min 12.2
1 oz Columbus Pellet 15AA Dry Hop 0 days
2 oz Cascade Pellet 6.8AA Dry Hop 0 days
1 oz Centennial Pellet 10AA Dry Hop 0 days

 

[jerbrew]

This is all my preference of doing things and my experiences so take it FWIW.

You have 3 bittering charges in there with the fwh,60, and 45 min additions. I would simplify it and either split between fwh and 60 or just choose one and adjust your ammounts to get the IBUs you want. As for bittering hops, again you have three. As I understand it warrior is quite mild compared to chinook (I generally use Bravo, CTZ, or centennial to bitter my IPAs) so if you're looking to tame down the chinook by cutting the bittering charge with warrior that would be ok but you don't need the nugget.

I like either a 10 or 15 minute flavor addition but you probably won't notice the difference of having both in there as supposed to a bigger single addition at either 10 or 15 minutes other than IBUs. Personally, I would do a .25-.5 oz each centennial, cascade, and Columbus at 15. Then, because I love whirlpool hops, add 1-2 ounce each of the same hops for a 15-20 hop stand.

This is a pretty big beer with a lot of specialty grains so I'd really go for it on the dry hopping as well. Maybe dry hop with what you have for 7 days then hit it again for a couple more with a smaller amount of the same hops.

I just did a 1.086 og IIPA and got great results with centennial, Columbus, and cascade ( a little simcoe too in the FO and first dry hop). 5 oz at FO and I dry hopped with 5 oz first for 5 days then 2 oz in the keg. Turned out amazing.

Cheers,
JT

 

[Rush]

This is all my preference of doing things and my experiences so take it FWIW.

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Cheers,
JT

Thanks for the advice! I'll look into these changes.

 

[Rush]

Updated hop schedule based on Jerbrew's comments for a total of 110IBU.

Amount Variety Type AA Use Time IBU
1.5 oz Warrior Pellet 14.3 First Wort 32.13
0.5 oz Warrior Pellet 14.3 Boil 60 min 17.69
1 oz Cascade Pellet 6.8 Boil 10 min 6.1
1 oz Centennial Pellet 10 Boil 10 min 8.97
1 oz Columbus Pellet 16.5 Boil 10 min 14.8
1.5 oz Cascade Pellet 6.8 Whirlpool at 180 °F 20 min 6.95
1 oz Centennial Pellet 10 Whirlpool at 180 °F 20 min 6.81
1.5 oz Columbus Pellet 16.3 Whirlpool at 180 °F 20 min 16.65
1 oz Cascade Pellet 6.8 Dry Hop 0 days
1 oz Centennial Pellet 10 Dry Hop 0 days
1 oz Columbus Pellet 15 Dry Hop 0 days