IPA recipe - what's your 2 cents? brewing tomorrow

[jammin]

fairly basic recipe - just curious to hear your thoughts. i always like hearing different points of view


Style: Imperial IPA
Boil Time: 90 min
Batch Size: 6 gallons (ending kettle volume)
Boil Size: 7.75 gallons
Boil Gravity: 1.059 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 75% (ending kettle)
Source: jamm!n
SG: 1.077
TG: 1.011
ABV: 8.54%
IBU's: 70.14
SRM: 6.04


Fermentables
Amount Fermentable PPG °L Bill %
10.5 lb American - Pilsner 37 1.8 63.6%
5 lb United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale 38 3.75 30.3%
0.5 lb American - Caramel / Crystal 15L 35 15 3%
0.5 lb American - Carapils (Dextrine Malt) 33 1.8 3%
16.5 lb Total

Hops
Amount Variety Type AA Use Time IBU
1.5 oz Warrior Pellet 15 Boil 90 min 70.14
4 oz Citra Leaf/Whole 13.9 Hopback at °F 0 min
2 oz Nelson Sauvin Pellet 11.3 Whirlpool at °F 0 min
4 oz Citra Pellet 13.9 Dry Hop 10 days
2 oz Nelson Sauvin Pellet 11.3 Dry Hop 10 days

Yeast
Wyeast 1056 - 4 liter starter (stir plate)

 

[Pappers_]

Cool. I've never used Pilsner in an IIPA or an IPA, sounds interesting.

 

[GrogNerd]

Devil's Backbone 8-Point IPA is brewed with Pilsner malt. I'm sure there are plenty of others. I've brewed a few. my beers have issues other than the malt profile, so I can't say mine have turned out very good.

I'm more interested in the Pilsner/MO combo. not saying it's a bad combo, because it will certainly make beer. wondering why you chose it? and definitely let us know how it turns out

 

[Remmy]

Cool. I've never used Pilsner in an IIPA or an IPA, sounds interesting.

New England Brewing uses it in many of their IPAs and they're fantastic (Gandhi-Bot, for example). I've used it for IPAs, too, but not an imperial.

 

[badlee]

Pilsner malt is a fantastic base malt for big hoppy beers. Even if they are huge on hops and low in gravity, the pils will give a nice grainy mouthfeel.

 

[NathPowe]

Looks like a great beer. I'd probably drop the cara-pils, but that's just me. I'd also maybe consider a touch of something more dank/earthy (columbus, chinook or simcoe or something) to balance out the fruitiness of those two hops, but again - just a thought. I'm sure this will come out really well regardless.

Pilsner malt for IPA's is really nice.