ipa hop addition help!??!

[stephenhawking]

american ipa
all grain
5 gal


Malt____
12 lb 2 row us malt
1 lb cara pils
1.25 crystal malt 10L
.5 lb caravienne malt

Hop____
1 oz amarillo mash hop

.25 oz magnum 60 min
.5 oz warrior 60 min
.5 oz simcoe 60 min

.25 simcoe 30 min
.25 amarillo 30 min
.25 citra 30 min

.25 simcoe 1 min
.25 amarillo 1 min
.25 citra 1 min

dry hop
.5 simcoe
.5 amarillo
.5 citra
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how does this recipe look? does this look too hoppy? what do you think about the hop additions??

 

[Piratwolf]

I think you have a delicious sounding BEvERage there, sir. Too hoppy for some, but I know that I for one would LOVE that beer!

EDIT: just for kicks, I ran your numbers. Calculating Amarillo as FWH (not sure that's accurate for mash hopping!), you have about 101 IBUs.


"All your home brew are belong to us!"

 

[skeezerpleezer]

I would move the Amarillo mash hop and 60 min simcoe additions to either a flavor or aroma addition (15,0, or dry hop). That is a great combination, and moving it to one of those would be the best use of their potential.

 

[dcp27]

+1, to moving the simcoe bittering to later in the boil. i'd also move the 30min adds to 15mins or later to up the flavor/aroma.

also, thats way too much crystal malt. nearly 3lbs in an IPA is crazy. at the least, i'd cut it in half, and personally I'd keep it under 1lb. i'd use something like vienna or munich instead if you're looking for a maltier IPA.

 

[Yooper]

I think it's WAY too much crystal malt. You've got 2.75 pounds of crystal in there- that's about three times more than I'd like to see. I'd dump the crystal 10L entirely and either use the caravienna OR the carapils, in the amount of .75-1 pound total. Or use the caravienna and .5 pound of carapils. I prefer 40L in IPAs, if I"m using it at all, so I'd probably simply get rid of both the crystal 10L and the carapils.

I'd move the simcoe 60 minute addition to later in the boil, as you have plenty of bittering hops already and you "lose" the great simcoe flavor and aroma in a 60 minute boil.

I'd move all of the 30 minute hops to 15 minutes.

Bittering hops are added 60-30 minutes, while flavor hops are added at 20-15 minutes and aroma hops at 5-0 minutes. I'd do a traditional 60-15-5-dryhop schedule with those hops.

 

[stephenhawking]

thanks for all the help everyone! this is my revised recipe...

let me know what you think i am planning on brewing this tomorrow

name: stay at home dad
style: American IPA
5 Gal
original boil size 6.2

OG: 1.069
FG: 1.017
ABV 6.7
IBU: 77.7
COLOR(SRM): 6.8

-Fermentables-
13lb 2row Pale Malt US
1 lb crystal malt 10L
1/2 lb Cara-Pils

-hops-
1 oz Amarillo mash hop( i have heard mixed things about mash hops i'm just going to experiment with it see if i notice a difference)

.5oz warrior 60min
.5oz magnum 60 min
.5oz simcoe 60 min

.25 oz simcoe 15 min
.25 oz amarillo 15 min
.25 oz citra 15 min

.25 oz simcoe 5 min
.25 oz amarillo 5 min
.25 oz citra 5 min

dry hop w/..
.5 oz simcoe
.5 oz amarillo
.5 oz citra

add irish moss at 15 min

ferment with wyeast american ale I or WLP001 at 68 F

Does a 150 mash temp for 60 minutes sound good and if so what temperature should my sparge water be?

 

[Looper]

Green Bay Rackers--Mash Calculators

Mash temp is completely up to you. If you want a dryer beer, with a lower FG, then mash between 148-150.

I like my IPA's in the 152-154 range since I generally have very hoppy very high IBU beers and need some residual sweetness to balance the bitterness.

Just experiment and log everything you do, and next time you'll know what you prefer!

 

[944play]

Does a 150 mash temp for 60 minutes sound good and if so what temperature should my sparge water be?

You could drop the Carapils and just mash at ~156ºF.

Sparge temp is not very critical, but if you perform a mashout (add boiling water to raise mash temp to ~168ºF) and sparge hot (~168ºF), you can save a little time at the expense of some fuel. The hotter wort will come to a boil that much sooner, but you'll lose some heat via the spent grain.
See Kaiser's blog post on the subject of cold sparging:
http://braukaiser.com/lifetype2/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=129&blogId=1