Why cant i gt my ibu up

[hunmojo]

I have tryed to put a recipe together for an ESB (american style) in a number of recipe calculators.(extract)... and I just cant seem to get a good IBU. Always too low...

I am also not sure which IBU calculation I should use...the three vary quite a bit.

Here is what I have..

5.28 gal (20L)
~1.5gal boil

2.5 kg Spray Malt E. Light
.5 kg Crystal Malt 60L
.22 kg(.5lb) Carapils malt

24 EBC 12 SRM
Og 1.054
Fg. 1.015
abv5.2

Salafe dry yeast s04


Hopps

any suggestions??

From what I have seen in other recipes the hops additions are about 2 oz, Tattnanger, Willamate, combination, but with my small boil size i need a lot more hops, which I dont have the money for.... any Hop alternatives like a use of Magnum? for this style.

 

[day_trippr]

The problem is the calculators look at the boil size and the grain bill and come up with an off-the-charts SG, which drops the AA extract to very low numbers.

If you want to beat the system, don't add the DME until the very end of the boil. That will lower the SG and greatly increase the hop extraction.

Try that scheme with your favorite calculator and see how the IBU changes...

Cheers!