W(I)PA - Wheat (India) Pale Ale

[Stapsin]

Hey, would appreciate any feedback on this!

Made a Hefeweizen a while back that turned out really well so thought I would try making a nice, bitter, hoppy wheat beer. I've also been looking to use Galaxy for a little while so thought I'd use it now too!


WIPA

Wort Volume Before Boil: 25.00 l
Wort Volume After Boil: 21.50 l
Volume At Pitching: 21.00 l
Volume Of Finished Beer: 20.00 l

Expected OG: 1.053 SG
Expected FG: 1.013 SG
Expected ABV: 5.3 %
Expected IBU: 34.3

Mash Efficiency: 75.0 %
Boil Duration: 60.0 mins

Fermentables
UK Wheat Malt 2.500 kg (50.0 %)
UK Pale Ale Malt 2.100 kg (42.0 %)
UK Caramalt 400 g (8.0 %)

Hops
US Columbus(Tomahawk) (18.3 % alpha) 13 g Loose Whole Hops - 60 Min
Australian Galaxy (15.0 % alpha) 10 g Loose Whole Hops - 10 Min
US Cascade (6.7 % alpha) 10 g Loose Whole Hops - 10 Min
Australian Galaxy (15.0 % alpha) 20 g Loose Whole Hops - At turn off
US Cascade (6.7 % alpha) 20 g Loose Whole Hops - At turn off
Australian Galaxy (15.0 % alpha) 26 g Loose Whole Hops - 7 Days Dry-Hopped
US Cascade (6.7 % alpha) 26 g Loose Whole Hops - 7 Days Dry-Hopped

Yeasts
DCL US-05

Mash Schedule
Mash Type: Full Mash
Schedule Name: Single Step Infusion (66C/151F)


Thanks in advance

[Rookie]

The only thing I'd do differently is replace the caramalt with carawheat.

[Clibit]

Or crystal wheat presumably, English name/variety.

[Stapsin]

Thanks for the input, will see if I can get hold of any...

[Barley Water]

I'd probably kick the gravity up to the 1.060-1.065 range, IPA's over here are generally a little bigger than your recipe. Actually, I will be interested to see how you like the beer, I'll be trying something similar a little later in the year. I have some Amarillo, Citra, Simcoe, Mosecic to play with so I'll come up with the hopping for mine based on that and of course my go to bitter hop is Warrior for beers like this.

[Stapsin]

Yeah, thats why its not really a true IPA I guess haha. Going for something a little lower gravity I can have more in one go! Potentially gonna be lowering the IBUs down to around 25ish I think but will see. Went with the Caramalt in the end as I couldnt get hold of the Carawheat. Hopefully gonna get to brew this weekend.

[Stapsin]

So I made this, put it in the keg, had some mates round...it went down far too well to the point that we worked our way through it in 1 day . Luckily I put some in bottles so will savour those.