Trying this IPA recipe

[Jwerner23]

I am still a beginner brewer, have only brewed 4 batches and all were kits. I am only set up for extract right now would like to try All grain soon. This is the first recipe that I am making up and would like to get some input on what people think. I will be brewing this in a few weeks so taking advice till then.

Recipe:
6 lbs. Gold Liquid Malt extract

steeping grains
1/2 lb. Crystal 50-60L
1/4 lb. Belgian Aromatic Malt
1/2 lb. Golden Naked Oats

hops
1 oz. Nugget pellet hops for 50 min
1.5 oz. Centennial pellet Hops for 25 min
1.5 oz. Centennial pellet hops for 2 min
2 oz. Cascade leaf hops for dry hopping (thinking 7 days in secondary)

05 yeast

What do you guys think.

Thank you,
Jeff

 

[TheJasonT]

You're gonna need a bit of 2-row to help convert sugars in the steeping grains. 1/2 - 1lb should be fine. Also, you're gonna get a lot more bittering off the 25 minute hops than you think. I'd do 10/5/0 additions and probably 2oz at a time.

If you added the oats for head retention, I'd rather use something like Carapils. Oats will leave a haze that only gelatin or extended cold conditioning will remove.

 

[Jwerner23]

Yeah I was wondering a little about the hop schedule I might move the 25 min hop addition to 10 min. I am using the Golden Naked Oats for a little nutty berry flavor, when I read about them they sounded interesting and I am looking for that extra something in this beer.

 

[peterj]

Only a half pound of oats probably won't leave any haze if it's converted. But I would just drop it so you don't have to worry about adding 2 row and mashing, because flaked anything cannot just be steeped. I would move the 25 minute addition to around 15 minutes or maybe 10. Other than that it looks pretty good to me!

Have a good brew!

 

[Yooper]

Golden naked oats are not the same thing as flaked oats or oat malt- they are fine steeped, and will be fine in this recipe. They don't give an "oily" feeling like flaked oats do; instead they provide a "nutty" flavor sort of like victory malt.

I'd leave it, and move that one hops addition to 15 minutes and call it great!

 

[peterj]

Oh whoops. Sorry I read that as flaked oats for some reason. I've never used or seen golden naked oats before.

 

[daksin]

They're kind of uncommon. I've been meaning to get my hands on some. With the changes mentioned, this sounds like a really tasty beer!

 

[Jwerner23]

Ordered my ingredients today will be brewing this next week. Hopefully its as tasty as it is in my head. Now I just need a name for it. I will let you all know how it comes out when its done.

Thanks everyone for the advice,
Jeff

 

[Jwerner23]

Brewing this up right now. I think I am going to call it the Discombobulator IPA. Someone should come up with a hops airfreshener because I love the smell of hops when brewing.