Hi from Santa Clarita, CA. Recipe advice?

[elwood522]

Hey all
Longtime lurker and user of recipes on the site, but just joined up now. Been extract brewing for a few years and all grain for about 6 months now.

Wanted to make a summer-y session beer for my wife and I to enjoy in the 100 degree heat in Santa Clarita this summer. I want it to be about 4.5% and kind of be a cross between Brooklyn Summer Ale (biscuit-y and crisp) and Weinhenstephaner Original Premium, clean and slightly malty with german hops.
I like doing a single hop a lot and wanted to try an ale with just hallertau mittelfrüh hops. I also like to keep the grain bill as simple as possible so I can keep the background noise down and really taste what I'm putting in.

I have never come up with a recipe from scratch so tell me if this seems like it would be just terribly undrinkable:

7.5 lbs 2-row
1 lb biscuit (I have never used this grain before, I heard you shouldn't do more than 10% of the grain bill as biscuit but I kinda want to put a lot in so I can really taste it and reduce in the next batch if necessary.)

1 oz hallertau mittelfrüh 60 min
1 oz hallertau mittelfrüh 30 min
1 oz hallertau mittelfrüh 15 min
1 oz hallertau mittelfrüh 5 min

Safale american ale yeast, ferment at 68 for 2 weeks

According to the brewer's friend calculator, that would be
1.043 OG
1.008 FG
4.53%
35 IBU

Too much hallertau hops? Too much biscuit malt?

Any help is much appreciated, thanks in advance!

 

[ba-brewer]

Cant really comment on whether that is too much biscuit or not but I think your not too far off from 10% to worry about it. I have used biscuit before at like 8oz in 5gals and I cant say I got any biscuit flavors or aromas. I do mash all my grains together so that might be part of it.

I just recently did a 10gal batch of beer that used a couple ounces of hallertau hops toward the end of the boil and got plenty of hop aroma and flavor. When I tasted the hydro sample as i was kegging the first thought I had was this tastes like a St Pauli girl. It had been a long time since I had one so that might not be a true statement any more.

This was my hops schedule for 10gals
1oz perl 60min
.5oz traditional 60min
.75oz traditional 20min
1oz hallertauer Mittelfrueh 10min
1oz hallertauer Mittelfrueh 0min with a 10min steep

 

[MaxStout]

If you want some biscuit notes, sub a few pounds of Maris Otter for some of the 2-row.