Morebeer's Rouge I2PA all grain kit help

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KevinP

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Greetings,
I'm looking for some recipe reformulation advice.
I brought this kit home and plugged it into Beersmith to see what I would end up with and 49 ibu in a 1.089 og double ipa doesn't seem right to me.

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 7.50 gal
Post Boil Volume: 6.50 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.50 gal
Bottling Volume: 5.00 gal
Estimated OG: 1.089 SG
Estimated Color: 7.5 SRM
Estimated IBU: 48.7 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 85.2 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
17 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.8 SRM) Grain 1 98.0 %
5.6 oz Acid Malt (3.0 SRM) Grain 2 2.0 %
1.00 oz Magnum [12.30 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 3 29.9 IBUs
1.00 oz Cascade [6.70 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 4 12.5 IBUs
1.00 oz Willamette [5.20 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 5 6.3 IBUs
1.0 pkg Pacman (Wyeast #1764) Yeast 6 -
1.00 oz Amarillo [8.20 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days Hop 7 0.0 IBUs

Other than what came with the kit, (I added the acid malt) I have these hops in my inventory:
2oz Magnum
1oz Cascade
1oz Northern Brewer
1.75oz Kent Golding
1oz Hallertau
1oz Centennial
1oz Saaz
2oz Chinook (homegrown)

I don't care so much about cloning the Rouge beer. I also have no problem buying more/different hops.

What would you do?
 
Sure looks low on the hops for a DIPA, 2 oz total of flavor/aroma/dry hop? Your efficiency is putting you 10 pts higher than the recipe intended which is compounding the problem. I'd bump up the Magnum to get the IBU into the range you want then throw in more cascade/centennial/chinook at flameout and dryhop.
 
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