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How does this sound? Mashing at the moment. Will Boadicea and Styrians go well together? The Chinooks are just there to knock up the bitterness a bit, any thoughts?

Style: Generic Ale
Batch: 9.00 L All Grain

Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.042 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 80 IBU
Recipe Color: 8 SRM
Estimated FG: 1.010
Alcohol by Volume: 4.0%
Alcohol by Weight: 3.2%

Ingredients
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Amber malt 0.10 kg, Grain, Mashed
Maris Otter Malt 1.00 kg, Grain, Mashed
Rauch malt 0.50 kg, Grain, Mashed

Boadicea 30.00 g, Whole, 90 minutes
Chinook 5.00 g, Whole, 90 minutes
Styrian Golding 10.00 g, Whole, 0 minutes

Looks good if a bit bitter for something that is 4%.

I thought you'd be like "needs more hops", 196osh

But yeah... if it is 80 IBUs, it is wildly unbalanced

mysterio wrote:I thought you'd be like "needs more hops", 196osh

But yeah... if it is 80 IBUs, it is wildly unbalanced

Late hops.

mysterio wrote:
But yeah... if it is 80 IBUs, it is wildly unbalanced

Spot on then!

If you wanted it unbalanced in a good way, you could move all the Boadicea to 5 or 10mins and get the hop flavour without all the bitterness? 80IBUs in a 1.042 beer may taste like vomit, and with the rauchmalz it may taste like vomit after a night drinking the fag buts and cigar dibs out of canned lager dregs

I won't get my expectations up then

Just drinking the first of these now ... you guys were part right, I should have added more late hops. Don't think it's too bitter though