Comments on a Recipe I'm Trying

[cge0]

Type: All Grain
Date: 10/28/2007
Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Brewer:
Boil Size: 5.72 gal Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: My Equipment
Taste Rating(out of 50): 35.0 Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00
Taste Notes:

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
8.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 72.73 %
2.00 lb Rye Malt (4.7 SRM) Grain 18.18 %
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 9.09 %
0.50 oz Chinook [13.00 %] (60 min) Hops 22.3 IBU
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (15 min) Hops 9.4 IBU



Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.057 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.010 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.015 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.005 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.55 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 0.65 %
Bitterness: 31.7 IBU Calories: 43 cal/pint
Est Color: 10.5 SRM Color: Color


First recipe I made by myself, kind of took a Rye IPA recipe and toyed with it. Any comments?

 

[Chriso]

Looks pretty good. You are a little light on the hops for an IPA. You might want to be a little closer to the upper-30 IBUs if you are looking for a distinctly hoppy taste. As-is, unaltered, it'll make a very balanced beer, I think it looks great.

Check out this recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=27673 - it's one of Biermuncher's American Pale Ale recipes. If you look about halfway down the page, there's a Gravity/Hops Ratio chart. (It's posted elsewhere too, I just default to any of BM's recipes when I can't find it ) I use this chart abusively whenever I am planning a brew.

 

[brewt00l]

Rye IPA? Try this on for size )

[size=+2]Denny Conn's Rye IPA [/size]
[size=+1]14-B American IPA[/size]

Size: 5.14 gal
Efficiency: 79.0%
Attenuation: 75.0%
Calories: 235.83 per 12.0 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.071 (1.056 - 1.075)
|====================#===========|
Terminal Gravity: 1.018 (1.010 - 1.018)
|=======================#========|
Color: 14.3 (6.0 - 15.0)
|======================#=========|
Alcohol: 6.97% (5.5% - 7.5%)
|===================#============|
Bitterness: 95.88 (40.0 - 60.0)
|================================|

[size=+1]Ingredients:[/size]
9 lbs Pale Ale Malt
2.5 lbs Rye Malt
7 oz Red Wheat Malt
7 oz Cara-Pils® Malt
17 oz Crystal Malt 60°L
1 oz Mt. Hood (5.0%) - added first wort, boiled 60 min
1 oz Columbus (15.0%) - added during boil, boiled 60 min
.5 oz Mt. Hood (5.0%) - added during boil, boiled 30 min
1.5 oz Mt. Hood (5.0%) - added during boil, boiled 0.0 min
2 oz Cascade (5.5%) - added dry to secondary fermenter
.5 tsp Irish Moss - added during boil, boiled 0.0 min
0.0 ea Fermentis US-05 Safale US-05

[size=-1]Results generated by BeerTools Pro 1.0.29[/size]

 

[cge0]

I'm making that already.
Figured I make a low grav version.
Though I'm using cascade in lieu of the Mt. Hood.
Hop shortage, etc.

 

[brewt00l]

I'm making that already.
Figured I make a low grav version.
Though I'm using cascade in lieu of the Mt. Hood.
Hop shortage, etc.

What are you looking for in the finished beer? If it's a combo of lower abv, body and hop/bitterness your on track...into the pale/apa ranges.

FWIW, I switched out the dry hop on the orig recipe for the same reason

 

[cge0]

Im making the original recipe and the one I posted.
1) The original recipe is pretty expensive. (Tight budget, heh)
2) I want to stock up on something that isn't as heavy as the IPA for the summer, since the temperature is sort of prohibitive to brewing.

I just threw the original recipe together as I ordered, figured it would be balanced and all. Just wanted to know if I went to heavy on certain things, or if I were making something sort of obscure.

 

[Chriso]

Let me put it this way: Your version looks both good enough and simple enough that I'm thinking about trying it.

In other words, brew on.

 

[cge0]

Well, thats cool, thanks for the support.