Thoughts on an APA extract brew

[shacked]

I'm going to try this extract as soon as my Red Ale is done and wanted to get some thoughts on this recipe (it's my first crack at putting a recipe together).

22L total.

Extract:
2kg Light Malt Extract
1Kg Light Dry Malt

Grains:
400g Light Crystal (steeped for 20 mins).

Adjunct:
200g Dextrose

Hops:
20g Cascade @ 60 mins
20g Simcoe @ 15 mins
20g Amarillo @ 5 mins
20g Citra @ 0 mins
Dry hop with 36g of Amarillo on day 5-7.

Yeast:
US05

According to IanH's epic spread sheet, I should end up with the following:

OG: 1.051
FG: 1.013
ABV: 5.4%
IBU: 36.6
EBC: 11.7

Few questions:

1) I didn't really know how to order the hop schedule and I just based it on hops that I really like. I was after an APA with a solid hop flavour.
2) the 200g of dex was only really to move the ABV from 4.9% to 5.4%. Not sure it really adds much other than ABV. should I remove?

Cheers!!

 

[pcmfisher]

I would certainly leave the dextrose in.

Even sub out maybe 300g dry malt and up the dex to 500g so it finished at a bit lower gravity.
And drop the crystal to 200g.
Personal taste thing though. You may prefer your beers a bit sweeter.

Depending on what sort of dry/liquid malt you use, in the real world I think you will struggle to get down to 1.013 with your recipe.

 

[gsouth82]

A lot of pale ales have a bit of wheat malt in them. I'd be tempted to change the 1kg Light DME to wheat DME.
I like your hop choice. I think the 4 pines pale ale uses the same hops, not sure of their schedule though.

 

[manson81]

I agree with the wheat for sure. All my extract Brews had a kilo of wheat. Not sure why you'd use 2kg of liquid and 1kg of dry, it's essentially the same thing isn't it?

 

[Yob]

Drop the crystal back to 250g ans the dex to 250g

Bang on with the wheat addition.