i had to improvise an IPA recipe in 10 mins. Any thoughts?

[Panderson1]

I was planning on brewing ZombieDust but UPS delivered to the wrong house. Was running late and had to come up with something with the hops I had... I went a little lower on the crystal than what's on the paper. The 30 min addition was for no reason lol. I actually whirlpooled a small amount of citra and centennial (about .5 oz each). Drank too much beer and got "experimental".

6.5 gallon batch (see attached)

 

[RCope]

I think you'll have a nice West Coast IPA. I would have used half the crystal/carapils and a clean bittering hop at FWH or 60 (Magnum or Warrior). If you only had those hops then it will be fine. And I like a 30 or 20 minute boil addition of Simcoe...

 

[IslandLizard]

You did very well improvising!

I'm with @RCope, by halving the crystal, but I'd leave the Carapils.
Not sure what the (small amount of) Munich brings to the party, but it won't hurt.
I too would use a simple bittering hop (Warrior, Magnum, Nugget, even Columbus, etc.) for the 60', saving the Simcoe for a late addition or whirlpool.

Re: BeerSmith settings:
You may may want to set your sparges to use "equal batch sizes" by clicking that checkbox in your BeerSmith mash profile(s).
That prevents the nonsensical "0.34 and 4.01 gallons" for the 2 batch sparges.
While you're there, also make sure there's a check mark in "drain mash tun before sparging."

Not sure if you're aware, there's also a checkbox named "Adjust Temp for Equipment." It's in the recipe's mash tab (mash profile). That checkbox is on top, right below where you select your mash profile.
You'd need to check that box to help predict getting closer to the proper strike water and sparge water temps.
I found that pesky checkbox only lately, never saw it was there, all along.

 

[Panderson1]

^ lol nonsensical. Definitely nonsensical things going on in beersmith. That weird 2 step always puzzled me. I am going to start using that word now.

 

[grampamark]

I use Beersmith, but I don’t take it too seriously. I think some of the app’s features are there because they can be, not because they’re a good idea. I like it for building recipes because it’s easy to enter ingredients and amounts while watching the little “sliders” on the bar graph which indicates gravity, bitterness, and color.

I set my mash profile to “single infusion, xxxxx body, batch sparge” but after that I don’t refer to the mash and boil timers. I mash with 1.5 qts/lb and, after vorlauf, measure my first runnings. I subtract that number from my intended pre boil volume, divide the result by 2, and sparge with 2 equal additions. I do enter my numbers into the session data fields. I set my efficiency at 70% and usually end up between 75-80%. I’m more interested in the beer than the numbers.

I suppose that’s the attraction of Beersmith. It works about as well for the process oriented folks as it does for the results oriented types, like me.

 

[day_trippr]

Then there's the OC user, who wants to hit exactly 10 gallons of kegged beer regardless of style or recipe

I wouldn't have a prayer of getting within 20% of that goal without a tool to keep track of equipment characteristics, grist effects, etc.
That said, note one can include 2000 ounces of hops in a Beersmith recipe and note an IBU score in the thousands - but literally zero wort loss.
Which kinda screws with the fidelity a bit

Still...since incorporating a Hopstopper V2 in my kettle and tweaking my equipment profile to account for the different hop-induced kettle losses (saturated hops on the kettle bottom versus the previous drained-to-crumbling hops in my SS spider) and finally getting it dialed in, I do appreciate the tool, with all its warts...

Cheers!

 

[grampamark]

My ghetto-quality system doesn’t require that level of management. I think my most used tools are a $6 stainless steel ruler to measure volumes with, a thermometer, a couple of $8 hydrometers, and a digital bathroom scale to weigh the kegs to determine the volume of finished beer. Brewing is a process and I’m not a process oriented guy.