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Boil Size: 17.00 l
Post Boil Volume: 15.11 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 19.00 l
Bottling Volume 15.21 l
Estimated OG: 1.067 SG
Estimated Color: 7.2 SRM
Estimated IBU: 68.4 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 0.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 30L (30.0 SRM) Grain 1 5.7 %
0.25 lb Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM) Grain 2 2.9 %
8.00 lb Light Dry Extract (4.0 SRM) Dry Extract 3 91.4 %
1.00 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] - Boil 60. Hop 4 37.5 IBUs
0.50 oz Mosaic [13.00 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 5 8.6 IBUs
1.00 oz Mosaic [13.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 6 12.6 IBUs
1.00 oz Mosaic [13.00 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 7 6.9 IBUs
1.00 oz Mosaic [13.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 30.0 Hop 8 1.3 IBUs
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 30.0 Hop 9 1.3 IBUs
1.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) Yeast 10 -
1.50 oz Mosaic [13.00 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days Hop 11 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days Hop 12 0.0 IBUs

Threw this together to brew this weekend. Was hoping to see what you guys thought before I go through with it. Still kinda new to recipe building so all the help I can get would be awesome! Thanks
 
Sounds delicious, but very bitter.

I can't see the biscuit malt coming through at only 2.9%.

I'd personally lower the bitterness or add something for a bit more maltiness (like munich or vienna extract in place of some of the pale). It depends on your tastes though.
 
I will probably change the biscuit to 0.5 lb then. I want to keep the grain bill simple but am a big fan of biscuit malt. If this beer gets down to 1.010 range which I'm hoping, it will be 7.5% so I want it to be fairly high in ibus. That's my thought process anyway

How does the hopping schedule look? Maybe more in dry hops?
 
This beer is in bottles now. OG was 1.070 and got down to 1.012. Fermented between 68 and 70 degrees. Dry hopped in the primary and racked to bottling bucked right from primary. Tasted it before it went into bottles. Very very hop forward. Very resiny. (Is that a word?). Very delicious. All the hop character is flavour and aroma. Not much bitterness. Definitely no lingering bitterness and very dry finish. Super stoked on this. Doing it again for sure. Mosaic and simcoe definitely work well together.
 
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