All grain recipe - thoughts, comments?

[BenCL]

new to making up my own recipes, Is this recipe sane

10 litre/2.6gal

Ingredients

3.00 kg/6.6lb Pale Malt, Traditional Ale (Joe White) (5.9 EBC) Grain 1 71.4 %
1.00 kg/2.2lb Vienna Malt (6.9 EBC) Grain 2 23.8 %
0.20 kg/.4lb Caraaroma (256.1 EBC) Grain 3 4.8 %

20.00 g/.7oz Amarillo [9.20 %] - Boil 60.0 min 15.3 IBUs
10.00 g/.35 Amarillo [9.20 %] - Boil 30.0 min 11.7 IBUs
10.00 g/.35 Amarillo [9.20 %] - Boil 5.0 min 3.0 IBUs

1 pkg Nottingham Yeast (Lallemand)

BIAB 60min mash, 90min boil.

Just a rando recipe I brewed today, does it make sense? Will it work?

 

[Rhetorik]

What style beer are you going for? Something along the lines of a pale ale, I'm assuming?

If so, it looks pretty good though I would make two modifications:
1) US-05 instead of notty
2) 60 minute boil should be plenty

You could also consider doing a flameout hop addition to get some more of that delicious amarillo flavour with minimal/no bittering

 

[kh54s10]

Yep, no need to do a 90 minute boil unless using Pilsner malt. Adjust your grain, water to get the right volume after the boil.

 

[chickypad]

What is your efficiency? That looks like a DIPA strength beer with hopping more like a blond (i.e 30 IBU and the equivalent of just 0.7 oz per 5 gal finishing hops). I think it's going to be very unbalanced but I guess it depends what you were going for and on your efficiency.

 

[charliehorse]

If you want to spend 150 minutes brewing, give your mash 90 and your boil 60. Either way, you'll still have a good beer, which is what you want.

 

[max384]

Whether your recipe looks good or not definitely depends upon the style of beer that you're going for. It looks like you're going for a very malt-forward beer? This looks like it will be very high ABV (depending upon your brewhouse efficiency) with a low to moderate IBU.

I think your ratio of grains looks really good. I like a high percentage of Vienna malt, and I've only recently starting using Caraaroma, but I really like it. I think I actually prefer it to the darker cara/crystals (90,120).

 

[BenCL]

Thanks for all the replies.

The long boil was because I started with more water as a precaution and boiled it off.

Yes , it is rather unbalances, and I can detect that now. Though, the hop bitterness does come through.

I may add fruit puree or something to add sourness if its far too malty. Will definitely dry hop.

I have no idea what my actual efficiency is right now.

The style was nothing in particular, just putting stuff into Beersmith and experimenting - experimenting with brewing and Beersmith.

OG was 1.070-75 or abouts, which i think is fine, but lower than Brewsmith stated.

Bubbling away nicely today.