First recipe attempt

[Bobo]

Hi, trying to put together a recipe for my nephews baptism. Trying to go for an IPA with a fruity hit. I've gone for;

1kg pale malt,
.5kg Crystal malt,,
.25 kg Amber malt

5g challenger for 60mins
1.5g citra for 60 mins
1.5g citra for 45 mins
1.5g citra for 30 mins
1.5g citra for 15 mins

Fermented with Nottingham yeast. Its going to be a 1 gal stove top brew. The figures beersmith has come out with are;

OG 1.070,
FG 1.016
ABV 7.14%
IBU 54.1

Don't know if I've gone too far and made it too strong. What's your opinions?

[barry44]

Personally, for a fruity hit, i would remove all of the Citra additions and up the challenge to provide say 40 ibu then wallop in enough Citra at 5 minutes to take the ibu to about 60.

I would also allow for a dry hop too, about 2g/l.

[edonald774]

Yeah I agree. Late citra addition and a big citra dry hop will give you what you are after.

[legion]

30% crystal is too much. Would recommend reducing it to 5-10% and halving or removing the amber malt.

[seymour]

30% crystal is too much. Would recommend reducing it to 5-10% and halving or removing the amber malt.

I agree. Many people say no more than 5% crystal in an IPA, and I know from experience about 3% amber is perfect.

So, instead of: 57% Pale, 29% Crystal, 14% Amber, how about: 92% Pale, 5% Crystal, 3% Amber?

Best of luck with your brew!