Help for Meantime IPA recipe

[MarcoS82]

Hi guys,
I want to brew the meantime IPA using the recipe at this link:
http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/6425/meantime-ipa-clone

This will be my first all grain beer, but I want to reduce the weight of pale ale to 3Kg and instead use some extract DME, so the new list of grains (efficiency 70%) is:

3 kg United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale
0.5 kg United Kingdom - Munich
0.3 kg United Kingdom - Crystal 80L
0.4 kg Cane Sugar
1.8 kg Extract DME - Amber

What do you think?

 

[kristiismean]

is this due to mashing limitations? you can do two mash sessions,

I would not use DME and the Cane Sugar, i would up the maris otter, the munich a little, ditch the crystal 80L..

 

[MarcoS82]

thks for your reply

yes, it's due to mashing limitations and I thought that maybe limiting the weight of base malt, my first all grain batch would have been more simple.

why you suggest to leave cane sugar and crystal?

 

[kristiismean]

When using DME, drop the crystal and sugar, totally.

so if you are limited in mashing:
3 kg maris otter
2.26 kg DME - amber

this will put you right on target
using notty yeast, will be close in in the fg/og and abv of the original, and even the color (srm) will be real close.
I mean, it's 7.36% vs 7.26%, 8.76 srm vs 8.45

(and the recipe calls for crystal 30L, not 80L, which makes more sense )