Advice On Extract Ipa

[rday]

I recently brewed up an extract Imperial IPA, which I earlier mentioned here. I broke down and tried one out today and was pretty happy with it. The bitterness was right on, however, I felt the hops flavour was a little one dimensional and missing something. I'm thinking about adding another hop variety to the mix. Any advice on how to improve this one in the future?

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		 Recipe: IPA  

		 Brewer:   

		 Asst Brewer:   

		 Style: Imperial IPA  

		 TYPE: Extract  

		 Taste: (35.0)   

		  

		 Recipe Specifications  

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		 Batch Size: 20.00 L		

		 Boil Size: 13.53 L  

		 Estimated OG: 1.087 SG  

		 Estimated Color: 14.1 SRM  

		 Estimated IBU: 95.2 IBU  

		 Brewhouse Efficiency: - %  

		 Boil Time: 60 Minutes  

		  

		 Ingredients:  

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		 Amount		Item									  Type		 % or IBU		

		 2.00 kg	   Light Dry Extract (After Boil; 8.0 SRM)   Dry Extract  33.3 %		  

		 1.00 kg	   Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM)			   Dry Extract  16.7 %		  

		 0.50 kg	   Carafoam (2.0 SRM)						Grain		8.3 %		   

		 0.50 kg	   Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (20.0 SRM)	 Grain		8.3 %		   

		 0.50 kg	   Caramunich Malt (56.0 SRM)				Grain		8.3 %		   

		 35.00 gm	  Southern Cross [13.00%]  (60 min)		 Hops		 61.7 IBU		

		 20.00 gm	  Southern Cross [13.00%]  (30 min)		 Hops		 27.1 IBU		

		 10.00 gm	  Southern Cross [13.00%]  (10 min)		 Hops		 6.4 IBU		 

		 10.00 gm	  Southern Cross [13.00%]  (30 min) (Aroma HHops		  -			  

		 20.00 gm	  Styrian Goldings [5.40%]  (Dry Hop 5 days)Hops		  -			  

		 1.50 kg	   Corn Sugar (Dextrose) (0.0 SRM)		   Sugar		25.0 %		  

		 1 Pkgs		SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04)	  Yeast-Ale

 

[bconnery]

I would definitely head for a combination of US hops, such as Cascade, Centennial, Amarillo etc, NZ hops such as D Saaz, Nelson Sauvin, B Saaz, or whatever they are called now, or an all English hop one. First Gold, Challenger, Target etc.
Southern Cross is a nice hop but its more in the bittering and light flavour area for mine.

I could be more specific in providing hop regimes etc but there is so much info out there and it all depends on what you like really...