Comments on this IPA recipe

[jgourd]

I currently have two "house" IPAs that are very different and am looking for another nice "citrusy" and "piney" IPA. I'm thinking of this recipe to start with. Any comments/suggestions? Thanks!

Overdose IPA
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Batch Size: 6.00 gal (8.49 gal preboil)
Estimated OG: 1.070 SG
Estimated FG: 1.016 SG
Estimated IBUs: 64 (Tinseth)
Estimated Color: 10 SRM
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70%
Boil Time: 60 minutes

Grains:
13.00# Northwestern Pale Ale malt (2.8L) (77.04%)
1.63# Munich Malt 10L (10.0L) (9.63%)
1.13# British carastan (34.0L) (6.67%)
1.13# Carapils/Dextrine (2.0L) (6.67%)

Hops:
1.00 oz Chinook (11.0%) (first wort)
0.50 oz Amarillo (6.9%) @20 min
0.50 oz Centennial (8.3%) @20 min
0.50 oz Columbus (14.5%) @20 min
0.75 oz Simcoe (11.8%) @20 min
0.50 oz Amarillo (6.9%) @0 min
0.50 oz Centennial (8.3%) @0 min
0.50 oz Columbus (14.5%) @0 min
0.75 oz Simcoe (11.8%) @0 min
0.50 oz Amarillo (6.9%) (dry hop)
0.50 oz Centennial (8.3%) (dry hop)
0.50 oz Columbus (14.5%) (dry hop)
0.50 oz Simcoe (11.8%) (dry hop)

Yeast:
White Labs WLP001 (California Ale)
3500 mL starter; ferment, crash cool and decant

Mash/Sparge Schedule:
Single Infusion, 154F, 60 min; Batch Sparge

Fermentation Schedule:
2 weeks @66F
1 week @70F (dry hop)
3 days @40F (cold crash)

 

[aseg]

I'd scrap the munich and use melanoidin instead, and possibly add some cr 60. secondly, I would get rid of the columbus and use chinook throughout for the piney-ness. Otherwise, this looks pretty solid.

 

[Yankeehillbrewer]

+1 on subbing Chinook for Columbus. I would probably reduce the Carastan and Carapils to a 1/2lb each or so. But yeah looks pretty tasty.