I want some opinion on my brown ale recipe

[credible2]

I am developing a brown ale recipe.
Partial extract recipe

Tell me what you guys think. I want some critiquing here.

This is for a 5 gallon recipe.


malt & fermentables
% LB OZ MALT OR FERMENTABLE PPG °L

46% 4 0 Alexander's Pale Extract 32 4

35% 3 0 American Two-row Pale info 37 1

9% 0 12 American Crystal 60L 34 60

6% 0 8 Victory Malt 34 25

3% 0 4 Chocolate Malt (US) 28 375

1% 0 2 Black Patent Malt 27 550

Batch size: 5.0 gallons edit
Original Gravity
1.048
(1.043 to 1.050)
Final Gravity
1.011
(1.009 to 1.011)
Color
21° SRM / 42° EBC
(Brown to Dark Brown)
Mash Efficiency ?
70% edit
hops
USE TIME OZ VARIETY FORM AA

boil 60 mins 1.5 Willamette pellet 4.7

boil 15 mins 1.0 Willamette pellet 4.7

boil 1 min 1.0 Willamette pellet 4.7

Boil: 3.0 avg gallons for 60 minutes edit
Bitterness
27.8 IBU / 7 HBU
ƒ: Tinseth edit
BU:GU
0.58
yeast

White Labs Nottingham Ale (WLP039)
ale yeast in liquid form with medium to high flocculation

Alcohol
4.9% ABV / 4% ABW
Calories
158 per 12 oz.

 

[HI_SALENITY]

IT looks good .

The black Patent is the only thing I may leave out . It will be brown enough without it and it may add a hint of bitter to the beer .

The crystal could be bumped up to Crystal 120 instead of 60.

 

[credible2]

why bump the crystal to 120?

 

[credible2]

i thought about maybe putting 4 ounces of crystal 120 a day or so ago for a bit of complexity. but i don't know.

 

[HI_SALENITY]

4-8 oz of 120 will add some color and depth to it and you could leave the 60 in too.

 

[credible2]

ok. thanks a lot. I made up my mind. I'm going to leave out the black patent and put in 4 ounces of crystal 120.
I know that it will come out good if I do all the steps right.

I ought to be brewing this soon. I'll probably put up professional looking pictures since my dad has a nice camera i'll borrow hehe