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This is just my personal opinion, I would cut the crystal and honey malt in half and add that amount in base malt. I think for 2 gal you will be a bit too sweet. As for the hops, I would do a 60 with CTZ, Then nothing until 15 min. With the 45&30 min addition I think will add too much bitterness.

I use honey malt in almost every beer I make, and I never use more than a half pound. As for your hops, I would cut your 60 min addition in half and definitely double your late additions. Good luck! I should note that the half pound honey malt I use is in 5.5 gal batches.

Looks pretty tasty to me! One of my IPA's has a similar hop schedule, but I use citra instead of centennial. My grain bill is a little more simple. With 2 row, c60 and a touch of honey malt. Brew it up and see what ya think! I personally would drop the carapils.

When I lived there in the early 90's, Michelob was considered craft beer.

That's not southern Illinois.. I lived in mt. Vernon for a couple years. You need to move more south. There are 4 micro breweries within 40 min of my house.

Where in southern Illinois are you.

I understand staying with the same flavors, but why not use a neutral bittering hop like magnum.

Everything looks good to me. Just wondering why the mosaic at 45. You will only get bitterness from it. So why not use a neutral high Alfa hop the and move it a late addition to get some flavor and aroma from it.

That should be fine. I got the information on how to make mine off the internet.

There were chunks of hops I'm assuming along with just brown water coming out. I ran the BLC through it several times. I then made a little more BLC solution and it ran clear. I then rinsed with 5 gallons of plain water. Followed by a star san flush.

I entered a smoked ale in a local competition. 2 of the 3 judges scored it 34,32 respectively. The other judge scored it a 19. His one and only comment, "totally undrinkable"

OK. I'm kind of embarrassed to say this. I ran boiling water through my CFC. I then mixed up a half gallon of BLC. The things that came out were very scary!

I haven't brewed in 4 months and my CFC has just been sitting in the basement. I plan on brewing this weekend and want to make sure that it is clean and sanitised. I have star san and BLC. I was thinking of running the BLC through it and then the star san. I ran boiling water through it...

I personally would not use more that 12oz of c20. You could add 4oz of honey malt for a little more sweetness if that's what your looking for.

If it was mine, i would drop the pilsner malt. As far as the hops go i would move the 45 min addition up to 5 min and move the 30 min up to 15 min or less.

What does the grain bill and hop schedule look like.

I love an all centennial IPA. My second place IPA is Amarillo/citra!

You could cut the base malt back a couple pounds and add some Vienna malt and a few ounces of honey malt.

If you cut the cara- pils out and the victory malt, and add 8oz honey malt, you would have my basic IPA grain bill. As far as your hop schedule i would go with what you have ( 12, 0). You can dry hop with more cascade if you like, but not needed.

You can use what you have and make a very good IPA/ APA. I would go with a little different grain bill. Something like 12# pale malt, 12oz crystal 60 and 6oz honey malt. Then for hops i would go with 3/4oz Columbus at 60 then split the simcoe and citra between 15 & 0. You could also add a pound...