Poor efficiency IPA... add extract or let it ride?

[bovineblitz]

Due to a stupid miscalculation plus a slightly lower than normal efficiency, my IPA wound up at 1.061 with 85.1 IBUs... I was planning for it to be about 1.072.

Think I should boil up some extract or sugar, or just let it do its thing? I'm a little worried it's going to be far too bitter.

The hops were all added at 25min and below.

 

[starrfish]

range for IPA is 1050 to 1075. 1061 your in the low middle OG & high on hops. Let it ride, without seeing recipe & if you will bottle or keg... time tempers hops if you can wait.

dry hopping with a sweeter floral/fruity hop may help too, bang the nose helps take some off bitter.

 

[bovineblitz]

Here's the recipe

12lb US 2-row (should have been 14 but I used an old recipe as the base and didn't check the volume)
1lb Vienna
0.5lb Crystal 40
0.5lb Carafoam
3oz Acidulated malt (to drop pH to 5.49)
5oz Simcoe (12.2%) added continuously from 25min-0min
1oz Simcoe dry hop
S05

OG: 1.061
IBU: ~85.3

I bottle so some hop character will fade.

 

[BigTerp]

Had the exact same thing happen to a double batch of Yoopers DFH 60 minute clone a buddy and myself brewed last night. We let it ride and plan to get plenty drunk in about a month off of it.

 

[Paul07293]

Sounds like most of your hop additions are flavor/aroma rather than bittering. At this point I think I'd just let it go. The flavor might be a bit out of balance but as starrfish said the hops should mellow with time.
Just a suggestion, I keep some light dme on hand for these situations. I check the gravity 15 minutes before flameout, if it looks like I'm going to be low I can toss in some dme to boost it up.

 

[bovineblitz]

Sounds like most of your hop additions are flavor/aroma rather than bittering. At this point I think I'd just let it go. The flavor might be a bit out of balance but as starrfish said the hops should mellow with time.
Just a suggestion, I keep some light dme on hand for these situations. I check the gravity 15 minutes before flameout, if it looks like I'm going to be low I can toss in some dme to boost it up.

Yeah I'm going to start doing that soon, I see a refractometer in my near future... too much of a pain to try and do that with a hydrometer.

The additions are all in the flavoring range but since it's 5oz of hops they'll still add a good amount of bitterness... if it's a smoother bitterness though I suppose it'll be fine.