Ipa for competition (need help)

[Glockental]

Hi there!
I'm planning an American IPA for a homebrew competition in Brazil.
Any sugestion?

American IPA
OG 1.065
IBU 60

95% Pale Malt
5% Castle Cara Ruby Malt (60EBC)

Mash @ 66C (151F) (no sparging)

Boil 90m

Hops:
Columbus + Centenial @ 10m for 40 IBUs
Columbus + Centenial @ 5m for 20 IBUs
Cascade @ 0m (5g/L)
Columbus @ 0m (2g/L)
Centenial @ 0m (2g/L)
Simcoe for Dry Hopping (5g/L)

Fermentation @ 18C (64F) with US-05
Maturation @ 1C (34F) for 5 days starting 3 days after dry hopping)

Planing to use whirfloc in the boil and biofine in the maturation.

 

[Kmcogar]

Those hops are very common hops for an IPA. Try some different hops. Make something no ones has before. I'm not saying it's gonna be a bad brew but there is so many new hops out there now. Why not at least throw one of them in the mix? I would want my brew to stand out from the rest. Keep the grains though, less is more. I like your grain bill

 

[Glockental]

Thanks Kmcogar!
Here in Brazil I have not so many hop choises.
What do you think about Apollo, Bravo or El dorado?

 

[stpug]

From my perspective, you've got a solid IPA recipe there. The only way to really adjust it further would be to brew it up and make adjustments after getting to experience it in real life.

I would typically have at least a small bittering charge at 60 minutes.

I don't see the need for a 90 minute boil but it shouldn't hurt anything.

Never used cara ruby but a 30L crystal should be perfect and get you a good color at 5%.

In regards to the dryhop, I personally have a tendency to prefer hop blends (even if minor) to straight hop. I know you will have a bunch of flameout hops so maybe that count for me . Additionally, 5g/L dryhop with Simcoe seems like a TON (~3.5oz of dryhop in a 5.25 gallon batch). I think you could reduce that to 3g/L for better balance.

After a quick read of biofine I wouldn't want to use it unless I was really pressed for time. IPAs are acceptable with some hop haziness.

 

[progmac]

why the 90 minute boil?

 

[Kmcogar]

Thanks Kmcogar!
Here in Brazil I have not so many hop choises.
What do you think about Apollo, Bravo or El dorado?

I'm pretty sure Apollo and bravo are some high alpha hops. Actually, I haven't used any of the 3 you named. I never heard of el dorado, so I looked it up. It sounds pretty good. I wouldn't used too much in there though. It seems to be pretty fruit. I made an IPA with some hops with a similar profile and didn't like how fruity it was. I used a lot of hops though. Don't listen to me though. I always brew off the wall beers. The last one was a peanut butter porter

 

[Glockental]

why the 90 minute boil?

I boil 90 minute when brewing with brazilian pilsner malt, to reduce dms... with pale malt I don't need to fear this, ok?
I will boil the 60!
Thanks everybody!

 

[progmac]

I boil 90 minute when brewing with brazilian pilsner malt, to reduce dms... with pale malt I don't need to fear this, ok?
I will boil the 60!
Thanks everybody!

you could probably even do 45 with no problem.