Odered my IPA Ingredients...malt backbone?

[brtisbuck]

I will be brewing my American IPA this weekend. After weeks of tweeking I've come up with this:

5 gallon batch/full boil

12oz carapils
8oz crystal 75l
8oz carastan

7# extra light DME

1oz chinook (pellet) @60
.5oz summit (pellet) @15
.5oz willamette (pellet) @5
.5oz each willamette and summit @ flameout

SAF-05 yeast

OG - 1.063
FG - 1.016
IBU - 53
ABV - 6.1%

Do you think I have enough malt backbone to support the IBU's? I think my ratio is like .836.

 

[gigatropolis]

Might be more interesting to break up the 1oz Chinook at 60 min into smaller staggered additions. Something like .5oz at 60, 15, and at 5 minutes would still give a lot of bitterness (a little less) and maybe a more interesting hop flavor and aroma.

Just some thoughts,
Kregg

 

[Thehopguy]

I prefer different hops for my late additions and I would definitely dry hop an IPA as well.. and I don't try to balance the hops either I want them to stand out.

 

[slarkin712]

I think that you'll have enough body to balance the hops. I would drop the carastan though. The carapils and crystal 75 will give you enough non-fermentables. If you want to keep the carastan, then I'd reduce the total crystal/cara malts down to ~1 lb. I do all-grain and typically use a total of 1 lb of crystal malts for an DIPA that has a gravity ~1.075. And the hops should help with head retention.

 

[brtisbuck]

I think that you'll have enough body to balance the hops. I would drop the carastan though. The carapils and crystal 75 will give you enough non-fermentables. If you want to keep the carastan, then I'd reduce the total crystal/cara malts down to ~1 lb. I do all-grain and typically use a total of 1 lb of crystal malts for an DIPA that has a gravity ~1.075. And the hops should help with head retention.

Thanks mucho for the input. This will be "my" first recipe and I'm still trying to get a good grasp on how to use the specialty malts for certain styles.

 

[brtisbuck]

On week in the bottle. It is carbed up nicely already. It taste great young. It is kind of a mild AIPA. By that I mean nice hop flavor and strong aroma, but not punch you in the tongue bitter. It was dry hopped with just about 1/4 oz of each hop for 7 days. It attenuated out to just over 1.013 so I'm sitting around 6.4% abv.