Advice on Citra PA?

[TBaGZ]

First time tinkering with making a recipe.

Boil Size: 8.24 gal
Post Boil Volume: 6.24 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.50 gal
Bottling Volume: 5.00 gal
Estimated OG: 1.055 SG
Estimated Color: 6.6 SRM
Estimated IBU: 35.4 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 76.4 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
9 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 75.0 %
1 lbs Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 3 8.3 %
1 lbs Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 2 8.3 %
0.60 oz Chinook [13.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 26.9 IBUs
0.25 oz Citra [12.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 9 3.8 IBUs
0.25 oz Citra [12.00 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 11 2.1 IBUs
8.0 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 4 4.2 %
0.25 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 10 0.9 IBUs
0.25 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 8 1.7 IBUs
0.25 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 12 0.0 IBUs
0.25 oz Citra [12.00 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 13 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Citra [12.00 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 15 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056) [124.21 Yeast 14 -
0.50 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 7 -
8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 5 4.2 %

 

[Billybrewer09]

Looks pretty good.

 

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

The only thing jumping out at me is if your losing 1.24gallons between post boil and bottling your losing quite a bit if finished beer there. Other than that looks ok to me.

 

[TBaGZ]

The only thing jumping out at me is if your losing 1.24gallons between post boil and bottling your losing quite a bit if finished beer there. Other than that looks ok to me.

I didn't set any of the volumes. Was just messing with ingredients.

 

[NathPowe]

Use more hops man. Especially more Citra - flameout and dry. Just my two cents.

 

[TBaGZ]

So I ended up going with 3/4oz Chinook to bitter, and bumped all the cascade/citra to 1/3oz a piece. I think I want to up the dry hop, too. Maybe 2oz citra with 1oz cascade?

 

[TBaGZ]

Just transferred to secondary and dry hopped this one. It has a great color to it and is really tasty so far. Looks like it is finishing up at 1.013, which will put it around 5.4%. Right around what I was looking for. Hopefully I didn't go overboard on the dry hops, but I want it to be real aromatic. I dropped in:

2oz Citra
1oz Cascade
.5oz Amarillo (because it was there?)

 

[benflath]

Not possible to go overboard with dry hopping.

But seriously, you'll get mostly citra from that combo, it's a bully. I did 1 oz citra and 2 oz amarillo a while back and still got more citra aroma than amarillo. Of course, that is far from a bad thing, it's just how it goes.

Let us know how it turns out!

 

[jonnyp1980]

i only dryhop with citra or cascade..the smell is intoxicating

 

[eggraid101]

Simcoe is a great dry-hopper also.

 

[TBaGZ]

This beer came out great! Only a few bottles left,so I will be brewing it again soon! This time to keg so I can put it in my new keezer!