TOO much Hops?

[gjork]

Recently I discovered Stone IPA and decided after doing some research to build my own IPA recipe with BIG Hop aroma as my inspiration. I plan on doing 2 batches right after the other and pitching on the previous yeast cake.
here is the recipe for the batch currently in primary...
8# English LME
1# Light DME
4oz Columbus Hops
2oz Magnum Hops
and I plan on dry Hopping 2-4oz of Columbus

should be a strong beer OG was 1.062

Is this way too much hops, or not enough?

-Gjork

 

[Orfy]

Why not follow a recipe that you know is tried and tested?

 

[the_bird]

It depends in large part on when you add the hops. The Pliny recipe, IIRC, has almost a pound of hops, but those are mostly late additions.

 

[Beerrific]

Well it really all depends on how long you boiled them. You get max bitterness from about 60 minutes of boiling. Flavor max around 20 min and aroma at 5minutes or less.

I like beers with a lot of hop flavor but not overly bitter and a clean bittering.

This is helpful:
http://www.brewsupplies.com/hop_characteristics.htm

You can use software such as
http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/
to enter your recipe and determine the predicted IBUs the take a look at this
http://www.brewsupplies.com/hops-gravity.htm
Many people like to talk about the OG/IBU ratio to determine how well their beer is balanced. Most IPAs are way right of the "Extra Hoppy" region.

Here is a recipe for a Stone IPA clone (from EdWort):

10.5# Pale
1# Munich
1# Crystal 20L

1 oz. Warrior 60 minutes
1 oz. Centennial 15 minutes
1 oz. Centennial 5 minutes

Dry Yeast - Safale US-05

O.G. 1.066
F.G. 1.010

Dry Hop with 1 oz. Centennial

EDIT:
For extract go with 8.5 lbs of LME and steep the 1 lb. of crystal malt

 

[abracadabra]

I like beers with a lot of hop flavor but not overly bitter and a clean bittering.

This is helpful:
http://www.brewsupplies.com/hop_characteristics.htm

Me too. Very cool web page!

 

[gjork]

Firstly, I could follow someone else's recipe but I thought it'd be fun to start experimenting instead of simply following instructions like my previous batches.

This link--
http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/

Very useful! Did lead me to discover my IBU is at a level around 101. Yikes! Is there a way to lower the IBU after it's already started fermenting? Or am I gunna be drinking Bitters?

-Gjork

 

[FlyingHorse]

This is helpful:
http://www.brewsupplies.com/hop_characteristics.htm

Something seems weird about that chart, at least in the 0-5 minute addition range...flameout hop additions add (essentially) no aroma, but almost as much bitterness as a 15-minute boil?

 

[Beerrific]

Something seems weird about that chart, at least in the 0-5 minute addition range...flameout hop additions add (essentially) no aroma, but almost as much bitterness as a 15-minute boil?

So I would read that as flameout additions add 5% of the total aroma they could if added at 7 minutes and 15% of their total possible bitterness.

Yeah that might be a little screwy. I guess most people say that flameout adds no bitterness, although I don't think that is completely true. I wonder where they got this chart or if it is just supposed to show trends and is based on empirical evidence.

 

[ColoradoXJ13]

Why not follow a recipe that you know is tried and tested?

why climb everest?

 

[FSR402]

why climb everest?

If I did not know how to climb, I wouldn't....