IPA Recipe Critique

So this is the first time I've put my own recipe together in BeerSmith. Was hoping a few people could take a look and let me know what they think.

I was looking for citrus/pine flavor/aroma with a subtle malt backbone to back up the bitterness. I'm not sure if the hop schedule is all over the place but to me these hops seemed to pair up well (and they're readily available at my LHBS).

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size (fermenter): 3.10 gal
Bottling Volume: 2.90 gal
Estimated OG: 1.066 SG
Estimated Color: 5.2 SRM
Estimated IBU: 75.8 IBUs
Estiamted ABV: 7.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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6 lbs 4.0 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) Can (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 80.4 %
12.4 oz Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 2 10.0 %
8.0 oz Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 3 6.4 %
4.0 oz White Wheat Malt (2.4 SRM) Grain 4 3.2 %
0.50 oz Columbus [13.40 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 38.7 IBUs
0.16 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 6 -
0.40 oz Amarillo [6.70 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 7 7.7 IBUs
0.40 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 8 6.3 IBUs
0.40 oz Zythos [10.90 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 9 12.5 IBUs
0.40 oz Amarillo [6.70 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 10 3.1 IBUs
0.40 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 11 2.5 IBUs
0.40 oz Zythos [10.90 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 12 5.0 IBUs
0.50 oz Amarillo [6.70 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 13 0.0 IBUs
0.50 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 14 0.0 IBUs
0.50 oz Zythos [10.90 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 15 0.0 IBUs
0.50 oz Amarillo [9.20 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 17 0.0 IBUs
0.50 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 18 0.0 IBUs
0.50 oz Zythos [10.90 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 19 0.0 IBUs

1.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) Yeast 16 -

 

Looks great to me! That one is going to have a TON of aroma (5 min/flameout/dryhop). You're dry hopping for how many days approximately?

 

75 ibus with a ton of aroma...looks mighty fine

 

I've never dry hopped anything longer than 5 days - probably just stick with that.

 

I think the recipe looks good. If you want a really huge hop aroma I'd consider bumping up the dry hop amounts some. You can also try a whirlpool/steep for 10-15 minutes after flameout, but you will pick up some extra bitterness from this so may need to decrease the bittering addition some to compensate.


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I've never used the whirlpool/steep method before but I might give it a try.

I picked up the ingredients for this last night - so many hops for a 3gal batch.

 

You can get a lot of hop flavor / aroma much more simply by using a large bittering addition to get your desired IBUs and using the rest of your hops as a flameout hopstand or whirlpool or whatever you choose.

 

This looks delicious and expensive.

 

I got a good price on the Zythos and Cascade but the Amarillo was a little pricey.

The brew went good but my efficiency was a sad 55%.