New Zealand Pale

[jimp2003]

I pointed out to my wife the other day that I still have a day's leave to take before the end of the year and fully expected to have a day's Christmas shopping scheduled in but no! - "Why don't you do a brew?" she said...

So I have put the following recipe together:

New Zealand IPA

Original Gravity (OG): 1.058 (°P): 14.3
Final Gravity (FG): 1.015 (°P): 3.8
Alcohol (ABV): 5.70 %
Colour (SRM): 4.1 (EBC): 8.0
Bitterness (IBU): 39.3 (Tinseth)

97.14% Pale Malt
2.86% Wheat Malt

20g Rakau (12.1% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (First Wort)
50g Riwaka (5.4% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil)
50g Rakau (12.1% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil)
20g Riwaka (5.4% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil)
50g Rakau (12.1% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma)
30g Rakau Dry Hop 5 days
30g Riwaka Dry Hop 5 days

Single step Infusion at 66°C for 60 Minutes. Boil for 60 Minutes

Fermented at 20°C with Safale US-05

Am I making the best use of the hops here? Would I be better spreading the 10 and 5min additions out a bit...?

[simple one]

Looks good to me. You pretty much have all the bases covered! What you don't hit in the boil will be healthily covered by the dry hopping!

[keith1664]

I've not used Rakau but a late hopped Riwaka Pale I made was awesome, from a personal perspective I like a little pale crystal or caramalt in there but it looks good.
Are the Riwaka a recent purchase... if so where did you get them? I've not been able to find any to make it again

[jimp2003]

This one went on the back-burner. The riwaka were the remains of a bag that had already been open for some time and although they had been stored in the freezer they had a distinctly cheesy aroma when I checked them so in the bin they went. I brewed an american pale instead...