APA on the verge of IPA recipe critique please

[flananuts]

Flanagan's APA
Beer Style: American Pale Ale
Recipe Type: All Grain
malt and fermentables
% LB OZ MALT OR FERMENTABLE PPG °L
89% 10 8 American Two-row Pale37 1
4% 0 8 Munich Malt 37 9
3% 0 6 American Crystal 40L 34 40
3% 0 6 American Crystal 60L 34 60
11 12

Batch size: 5.0 gallons
Original Gravity
1.059
(1.052 to 1.061)
Final Gravity
1.013
(1.012 to 1.014)
Color
7° SRM / 15° EBC
(Gold to Copper)
Mash Efficiency
70%

hops
USE TIME OZ VARIETY FORM AA
boil 60 mins 0.5 Simcoe pellet 12.2
boil 25 mins 0.5 Amarillo pellet 8.6
boil 15 mins 0.5 Summit pellet 18.0
boil 1 min 0.5 Amarillo pellet 8.6
boil 1 min 0.5 Simcoe pellet 12.2
DH 7 days 0.5 Simcoe info pellet 12.2
DH 7 days 0.5 Amarillo pellet 8.6
DH 7 days 0.5 Summit pellet 18.0

Boil: 6.5 avg gallons for 75 minutes

Bitterness
6.1 HBU
44.7 IBU
ƒ: Average
BU:GU
0.76
yeast
Rogue Pacman Ale Yeast
ale yeast in liquid form with high flocculation
Alcohol
6.1% A.B.V.
4.8% A.B.W.
Calories
194 per 12 oz.

 

[hoppymonkey]

Looks excellent to me, but I'm sure what you were going for.

 

[flananuts]

I'm planning on mashing at a lower temperature around 151 degrees until complete conversion and I'm more curious what my specialty grains will do to the flavor and color at lower mash temps. The hop build too is completely blind, although I use amarillo and simcoe a lot. This is basically replacing warrior with summit.

 

[flananuts]

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[Beerrific]

The crystal malts are already converted then caramelized. So, the mash temp will do little to them. I think this is good, it I will preserve some body. The Munich will get converted to the same fermentability as the base malt. But, the nice melanoidin and toasty flavors will remain. I think the grain bill looks good, I do not like a lot of crystal in my APA/AIPAs. Mashing at 151 also good.

Hops look good, should have a great flavor. Personally I think you could move some of those hops at 25 minutes later, but you would need to add more at 60 to get the same IBUs. Up to you, will be fine as written.

 

[flananuts]

Thanks for your input. Regarding the hops are you suggesting I add the 25 minute hops closer to 15 or 10 minutes? I could always supplement my simcoe with some summit at 60 min. I'm psyched to brew this beer on sunday.

 

[Beerrific]

For max flavor and aroma I like to target 10 minutes or less.

 

[flananuts]

Update, i brewed this up and changed the additions around by adding some summit to the 60 min boil, moved my 25 min to 10, and kept my 1 min additions. I pre-soaked my pellets this time to minimize wort loss and will likely do that again.