First wort Hopping

[dmashl]

I am about to try something new for me. I am going to First wort hop a recipe for a brown ale. I am wondering if this will boil over at the hot break? Do not want a mess on my stove as SWMBO will be pissed if it does go over.
Recipe as follows:
6.5 lb 2 row
3 lb 60L
12 oz 120 L
8 oz Chocolate malt
3 oz black malt

1 oz E Kent golding FWH
.5 oz Liberty 30 min
.5 oz Liberty 15
1 oz Willamette Flame out

4 gallon boil with 2 gallon top off after transferring to fermenter(due to lack of pot volume)

Nottingham yeast rehydrated

 

[Yooper]

It may boil over, but watch it close and you should be ok.

You didn't ask for a recipe critique, but is the 3 pounds of crystal 60L, and .75 pounds of 120L a typo? The 120L might be ok, but the 3 pounds of crystal 60L is not.

 

[dmashl]

What do you suggest with the ratio of Crystal malts? I have more 2 row to use.

 

[dmashl]

thinking of backing off the 60L to 1 lb and adding 2 lbs of 2 row in its stead.

 

[Yooper]

What do you suggest with the ratio of Crystal malts? I have more 2 row to use.

No more than 10% crystal malt total in most beers, but in some cases up to 12-15% crystal malt is ok (like in a well-hopped American amber).

 

[dmashl]

if I do what I said with the 1 lb 60l and 2 more lbs of 2 row, it would be about 16% crystal.

 

[Barley_Bob]

if I do what I said with the 1 lb 60l and 2 more lbs of 2 row, it would be about 16% crystal.

Follow Yooper's advice on this one. 10% or less crystal is solid guidance, and, when she says well hopped at 12-15%, she means it will take considerable effort to balance the sweetness it will impart. I will promise you that, if you cut your crystal to 10%, you won't be disappointed. I would maybe do .85lbs 60L and .25lbs 120L (to be right at 10%) and save the leftover for the next batch.