Please rate my Black IPA recipe

Hi

I'm trying to make a recipe for a Black IPA. Would you please rate this recipe and change it if you will...

Batch Size: 25L (6.6Gal)
Total Water: 40L (10.5Gal)

Mash - 70min at 66ºC (150.8F)
- 5.300g (11.68Lb) Pale Ale Malt
- 500g (1.10Lb) Pilsen Malt
- 500g (1.10Lb) Cara Ruby Malt
- 500g (1.10Lb) Chocolate Malt
- 200g (0.44Lb) Roasted Malt

Boil - 70min
40g (1.41oz) Galena 60min
10g (0.35oz) Cascade 60min
20g (0.71oz) Golding 15min
15g (0.53oz) Cascade 15min
20g (0.71oz) Golding Dry-Hop (7 Days)

2 pkt Fermentis S-05

ABV: 6,3%
SRM: 27
OG: 1,061
FG: 1,012
IBU: 62

 

Personally I'd use Carafa III and cut the roasted malt completely (or at least reduce that and the chocolate malt). I thought a black IPA should have the colour but not much of the roasted flavours.

 

Agreed. Almost 1/2 lb of roasted malt will give you a very roasty flavor (which would be atypical for the style). Cut that roasted grain in half, and add a little carafa II or III, and you should be right on target.

 

I agree on the reducing the roasted and the chocolate and adding the carafaIII.
Id drop a pound of the pale malt and sub in 1.5lbs of rye malt but that's just me.
The last one I did used a lot more hops. Cascade and Amarillo work nicely but I would use about an ounce each at 10 minutes and double the dryhop. The EKGolding dryhop at about 57g would not be a waste of hops and might be quite good.
My last Black IPA got dryhopped with an ounce of Simcoe and another of Galaxy and it was amazing.