25 lbs MO, 2 lbs Munich, 2 lbs Crystal and 10.5 oz hops... help!

[badmajon]

Hi all, I got the following ingredients:

25 lbs Maris Otter
2 lbs of Munich
2 lbs of Crystal 60
7 oz Cascade
3.5 oz Simcoe
2x packets of S05

I am going for an 10 gallon batch of IPA. Right now I am probably going to go with:

23 lbs MO
2 lb Munich
1 lb crystal

4 oz Cascade (60)
2 oz Simcoe (60)
2 oz Cascade (15)
1.5 oz Simcoe (5)
1 oz Cascade (5)

2 packets of S05

1.069 OG, 91.0 IBUs, and 7.7 SRM according to BeerSmith 2 (10 gallons).

However I am not that great at thinking up recipes, I don't think I really understand what I am doing as much as I could with more time. What do you all think of this? Any ideas? I'm aiming for a very hoppy double IPA with just enough malt body and residual sweetness to support the IBUs.

 

[HOPtuary]

I would suggest using something cheap and high AA for bittering. Dont waste 6oz of decent aroma/flavor hops for your 60 min addition. Go with Warrior or Magnum. Also I would load up on late additions. Throw a flame out/whirlpool addition in there and def dry hop. Id think 1-2oz of each at FO and 2-3oz of each for a dry hop.

 

[geoffey]

Cut the crystal in half or eliminate completely. It will add too much sweetness to a iipa

 

[Dangeruss]

I cut down the munich also cut the mo to about 18# and I second on dry hopping for 5-7 days of the Cascade and Simcoe. Use this example for hop schedule and grain bill as a guide. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=92914

 

[badmajon]

Oh btw these are what I actually have, so, no way to change out ingredients.

 

[JKaranka]

Move the Cascade from the bittering addition to a dry hop. Even if your IBU drop considerably you'll be better off with the hop flavour. Malts look fine, maybe lower the crystal malt a bit but MO with a tad of something is always good.

 

[slym2none]

Leave the Cascade for the bittering charge, but take the 60-minute Simcoe & use it for dry-hopping instead.

Otherwise, looks good, man!

 

[Double_D]

You could do a 90 minute boil and cut down in the bittering hops as well

 

[Transamguy77]

You could also FWH the 60 min cascade which would reduce the addition and add the difference to a later addition.

 

[PGEduardo]

You could do a 90 minute boil and cut down in the bittering hops as well

I like this approach as well.

I'd go for all 25lbs of MO too, might as well make it a solid DIPA. Use a 90 minute boil to reach your desired IBU's, then add all the rest at flameout. I'd also recommend ordering about 5 oz more for dry hopping (Cascade/Simcoe/Centennial/etc.)

 

[chickypad]

You're not going to get much more IBU going from 60 to 90 min - for example just plugging in some numbers 4 oz of 6.7% cascade (pulling AA% out of the air) goes only from 49 IBU to 52 with that gravity. But I agree you don't need 91 IBU's and it does seem a shame to use all those nice hops at 60. If you can't get anything else to bitter with I think you'll still have enough IBU's moving about half of them to later.

 

[Double_D]

You're not going to get much more IBU going from 60 to 90 min - for example just plugging in some numbers 4 oz of 6.7% cascade (pulling AA% out of the air) goes only from 49 IBU to 52 with that gravity. But I agree you don't need 91 IBU's and it does seem a shame to use all those nice hops at 60. If you can't get anything else to bitter with I think you'll still have enough IBU's moving about half of them to later.

My thinking was to do 90 min addition, then move some of the hops to a later time in the boil.