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spbrhs07

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Recently, I've become rather fascinated with IPAs and IIPAs. Then I hear about this mythical triple IPA... I guess it's not an official style? From what I can tell, it appears to be a cross between an IPA and American Barleywine. I have set out on this adventure to brew one! I'd appreciate some feedback on this recipe that I've formulated for a 1 gallon experimental batch...

Starting with 2.5 gallons of water and a 90 minute boil

3lbs Light DME

Steeping Grains (may do partial mash)
3oz Crystal 60
2oz Crystal 10
1oz Flaked Oats

90 minute hops
2g Summit 18.5 AA
6g Simcoe 12.7 AA
3g Amarillo 8.6 AA
3g Centennial 10 AA

Flameout Hops
7g Simcoe 12.7 AA
5g Amarillo 8.6 AA
5g Centennial 10 AA

Dry Hop 5 days
7g Simcoe 12.7 AA
5g Amarillo 8.6 AA
5g Centennial 10 AA

Ferment with Wyeast 1728 Scottish Ale Yeast pitched as 400mL starter

Plugged everything into Brewer's Friend
OG 1.130
FG 1.038
ABV 12.16%
IBU 124

Sound good?
 
So this is about a 1 gal batch post boil? In general it should finish drier than a barleywine so you will want an attenuative yeast (I'm not familiar with that strain) and you would almost certainly want to replace some of the extract with simple sugar. Also you've got about the equivalent of 1.5 lb crystal for a 5 gal batch, way too much for an imperial IPA. If you bring down the FG you can lower the OG a bit correspondingly. The bittering addition seems unnecessarily complicated to me but okay if you're using up hops.
 
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