First IPA

[lyacovett]

I am about to brew my first IPA, and am unsure about the hop schedule.

From reading around I noticed that there are two basic approaches,
big additions, spread out, or a bunch of small additions. I'm looking for
some input for my recipe about this.

These are my ingredients:

4 lbs Amber DME
3 lbs Light DME
1 lb Crystal 40L

as for the hops
I have 1 lb cascade at my disposal.
I do not have a secondary fermenter, and was planning on
dry hopping in the primary a 5 - 7 days in to fermentation.

I was planning on following this hop schedule:

2oz 60 min
1 oz 20 min
1 oz 10 min
1 oz 0 min
1-2 dry hop.

does this sound good, or should I split it up more,
I have a lb to mess with here, I also have a few ounces of
Hallertau and Tettnang, but from what I understand, they
should be left out of this recipe.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Whats the est IBU's for this beer?

Without entering this into beersmith or something, I'd say it looks fine.

 

[steelerguy]

It will probably be a pretty dark beer, especially if you boil all the DME for 60 mins. When I used to use extract all my beers would be darker than the calculators suggested.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

I'd say more amber than "really dark".

 

[michael.berta]

My extract beers also turned out a bit darker than expected. You can control the color a bit better by doing a full wort boil. But then you need to re calculate your hop additions because wort gravity effects hop utilization.

 

[lyacovett]

With this hop schedule, and a 3 gallon partial boil, the est IBUs will be 71.
Should I not boil all of the DME for 60 min.... try adding later in the boil?
Will this help to lighten the color at all, and what will it do to the flavor?

 

[MattHollingsworth]

If you're curious, when you rack to secondary, split the batch in half. Dry hop one and not the other. This will give you a very good impression of what's going on there. Always fun to see too and it's not a whole lot of extra effort other than requiring another carboy/fermenter.