First Recipe Attempt - American IPA

[zachary80]

Am I doing this right? I came up with this recipe in BeerSmith. The reason I have the extract in separate pounds is that I was originally going to add the 5lb with 10 minutes left, but BeerSmith put me way above style IBUs. I found on the last batch that using 5-10 drops of FermCap-S let me boil just over 4 gallons of wort

Type: Extract
Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Boil Size: 4.08 gal
Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: Brew Pot (5 Gallon)

Ingredients:
5.00 lb Extra Light Dry Extract (3.0 SRM) Dry Extract 58.82 %
3.00 lb Extra Light Dry Extract (3.0 SRM) Dry Extract 35.29 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 5.88 %

1.00 oz Magnum [14.00 %] (60 min) Hops 33.5 IBU
0.50 oz Centennial [10.00 %] (30 min) Hops 9.2 IBU
0.50 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (30 min) Hops 7.8 IBU
0.50 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (20 min) Hops 6.2 IBU
0.50 oz Centennial [10.00 %] (20 min) Hops 7.2 IBU
0.50 oz Centennial [10.00 %] (10 min) Hops 4.3 IBU
0.50 oz Amarillo Gold [8.50 %] (10 min) Hops 3.7 IBU
1.00 oz Citra [11.00 %] (Dry Hop 3 days) Hops - in secondary

1.00 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
2 Pkgs Safale (Fermentis #US-05) Yeast-Ale

Beer Profile:
Est Original Gravity: 1.070 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.020 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.57 %
Bitterness: 71.8 IBU
Est Color: 7.6 SRM

 

[Homebrewtastic]

I would extend the dry hopping to at least 7 days.

 

[joetothemo]

I like it. I made one similar that is bottle conditioning. Dry hopped 7 days, as Homebrewtastic said.


My IPA
http://tastybrew.com/newrcp/detail/728

 

[zachary80]

I would extend the dry hopping to at least 7 days.

Thanks, wasn't sure, that was just the default value

 

[zachary80]

I'll be ordering soon, does anyone else have input?

 

[statseeker]

Sounds good. I didnt dryhop mine and it's just the right amount of bitter for me. Roughly 68IBU. Not a bad brew if I say so myself. Thing I'm going to try changing though in the next iteration is upping the mash temp from 148 to 153 to get a better overall mouth feel/heaviness. MAYBE add some cascade for dry hop. Perhaps add a little dextrin. Not sure yet, still got 5 gallons of beer to drink, haha.