Critique My Recipe

[beerandgarden]

Based on my supplies at hand I've come up with this recipe for my next extract batch:

Batch Size: 25L
Boil Size: 10L

Fermentables:
Steeped Medium Crystal - 0.25 kg
Amber Liquid Malt Extract - 3.75 kg
Dextrose - 0.25 kg

Hops:
Nelson Sauvin (12.6%) - 5g @ 60 mins
Summit (15.9%) - 5g @ 60 mins
Nelson Sauvin - 5g @ 20 mins
Summit - 5g @ 20 mins
Nelson Sauvin - 15g @ 10 mins
Summit - 15g @ 10 mins
Nelson Sauvin - 15g @ 0 mins
Summit - 15g @ 0 mins
Nelson Sauvin - 15g dryhop
Summit - 15g dryhop

Yeast: US-05

According to Kit and Extract Beer Designer this should give:
IBU: 38.6
OG: 1.052
FG: 1.012
ABV: 5.5% (incl priming)

1. How do you think this recipe would work?
2. What style would you call it?
3. Any ideas to improve it? (preferably without additional ingredients)

Thanks in advance,
Aidan

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

Based on my supplies at hand I've come up with this recipe for my next extract batch:

Batch Size: 25L
Boil Size: 10L

Fermentables:
Steeped Medium Crystal - 0.25 kg
Amber Liquid Malt Extract - 3.75 kg
Dextrose - 0.25 kg

Hops:
Nelson Sauvin (12.6%) - 5g @ 60 mins
Summit (15.9%) - 5g @ 60 mins
Nelson Sauvin - 5g @ 20 mins
Summit - 5g @ 20 mins
Nelson Sauvin - 15g @ 10 mins
Summit - 15g @ 10 mins
Nelson Sauvin - 15g @ 0 mins
Summit - 15g @ 0 mins
Nelson Sauvin - 15g dryhop
Summit - 15g dryhop

Yeast: US-05

According to Kit and Extract Beer Designer this should give:
IBU: 38.6
OG: 1.052
FG: 1.012
ABV: 5.5% (incl priming)

1. How do you think this recipe would work?
2. What style would you call it?
3. Any ideas to improve it? (preferably without additional ingredients)

Thanks in advance,
Aidan

An APA or AAA.

Looks good. I might back off the bittering a little (or change or remove the 20 m addition) as you might end up with a more overly bitter beer. Aim for a BU:GU ratio of around .5.

Ta

GOomba

 

[thanme]

Looks good to me, although I know nothing about Summit! When I was doing Extract, my brews were pretty similar.

I'd call it an APA I reckon.

 

[mwd]

I think you are way under bittered up the 60 mins hops to 15g each.

I am a hophead mind you all else looks good otherwise.

 

[beerandgarden]

So GOomba suggests backing off on bittering:

I might back off the bittering a little (or change or remove the 20 m addition) as you might end up with a more overly bitter beer. Aim for a BU:GU ratio of around .5.

and Tropical Brews thinks it is way under bittered:

I think you are way under bittered up the 60 mins hops to 15g each.

I am a hophead mind you all else looks good otherwise.

Any other opinions on this? I was tweaking my recipe to follow Goomba's advise and aim for a BU:GU closer to 0.5 but now Tropical Brews' post has me confused. If I up the 60min hops to 15g each, that gives me IBU 67 and BU:GU of 1.3 - seems very high! I like hops myself but I think Goomba is making more sense on this one.

 

[Nick JD]

Your recipe is good. I would also err on the side of backing it down to ~30 IBUs; but then I'm a hop-taste head, not a hop-bitterness head.

Then again, with all that extract you are porbably bang on at 38 IBUs. It's easy to forget how high extract brews finish (FG) and how this affects sweetness.

Maybe you could go higher ... but I dunno about 60!

Brew it and write it down. Most likely a winner. Brewing is a journey; the bottlestore is a destination.

 

[mwd]

I drink Punk IPA and JS IPA as my standard brews so I like a bit of hop bitterness. I doubt the calculated IBU 67 will actually come about in practice. I have to keep upping my 60 mins boils to get a good hop hit.

Good advise from Nick if it is under bittered it is still more drinkable than something that makes your mouth pucker. :mellow:

Yes keep a log then you will have a good idea for the next brew if you fancy a change.