Big Red recipe questions

[tdogg]

ok so i brewed this last weekend with a friend, so if i messed up i cant really fix it now, but i would like some advice.

we were going for a big hoppy red, as i have a pound each of amarillo and simcoe coming to the LHBS soon. we will wet hop the snot out of this thing. we brewed on very short notice so i had to make this recipe on the fly, here is what we did:

10 Gallons

12.5 pounds 2-row
8 oz caramel 40
8 oz simpsons roasted barley
4 oz special B
2 oz simpsons brittish chocolate

mashed BIAB style and dunk sparged, then added;

12 pounds gold LME

boiled 9 gallons

3 oz chinook @ 60
.5 oz magnum @ 60
2 oz cascade @ 30
1 oz amarillo @ 10
1 oz ahtanum @ 10
1 oz Centennial (whole leaf) @ flameout

OG : 1.074

half fermented with S-05 and half with wyeast Headwaters ale


my question is, beercalculus and another website put the IBU's around, 75 which is what i want. but i have heard that these calculators can be innacurate. i also noticed that my 30 min addition was bigger than other recipes. Did i over hop this beer?

 

[tdogg]

BTW i know that the hop bill has alot of different hops, but i was kind of cleaning out the freezer.

 

[tdogg]

anybody?

 

[no_borders]

I just did a really hoppy red, pretty similar recipe. I didnt use the roasted barley, but the hop schedule was pretty similar, came out really nice. Some of my friends dont like it, its a tad bitter for them, bui i enjoy it. I used chico ale yeast, and attenuated really well, making it seem hoppier than it was, though we hit around 90 ibu's, solid beer over all though

 

[tdogg]

"chico" is white labs california right?

 

[no_borders]

Yea wlp001 would be it. I clutured mine from a bottle of Sierra Nevada, and found it to be slightly different than 001, but pretty damn close

 

[tdogg]

update, this bugger finished at 1.012. an online calc puts it at 8.3%.