Oops and more oops.

[John Sand]

I'm brewing now, well, chilling a batch. I decided to partial mash a recipe I found online with some variations, including hop substitutions. So I fed it into Brewer's Friend to keep the numbers similar. I was surprised how much malt was needed, but didn't think much about it. Late in the boil I was looking at the recipe on BF, and realized that the default efficiency for partial mash is the same as steeping grains: 35%. Okay, I adjusted it to 60%, now I have a IIPA. Better check the hops. I can help it by upping the late additions, never a bad thing. And I failed to transcribe one of the 15 minute additions, now a 10 minute addition. I'm not really worried, it shows the right numbers and there is nothing weird in it. If anyone is interested, here's the recipe:
5# Pilsen Light DME
1# Munich DME
7# Belgian Pilsner Malt
4oz Melanoidin
20 minute mash, 40 minute boil.
1oz Chinook 1.5oz Cascade @30
1oz Horizon @15
1oz Cascade @10
1oz Horizon @5
2oz Cascade Dry Hop
US05 slurry.

[Inkleg]

Might be the best beer ever so keep good notes.

You may or may not get weird numbers if BeerSmith is set to extract while entering an all grain recipe.

[John Sand]

Thanks Ink. I will report my results.

[mashani]

So this is some sort of 'Mericanized Belgian Pale Ale?

I think it will be tasty.

I've made 'Mericanized German Festbier before and that was nice.

[John Sand]

I found the recipe on HBT, "My 2-Time Gold Winning American IPA"
The original called for 2-row, C20, Munich, Carapils and torrified wheat. His hops were Chinook, Cascade and Willamette. My version came about from the hops on hand and combining an extract kit with the Belgian Pilsner malt I have. I was tempted to do a 10 gallon split, making half with 3787. But I sprained my ankle and foot this week, and thought I would just relax and make five gallons. I have not tried this recipe before, but it has good feedback online. My horizon hops are not fresh, but smell great, so I rolled with it.

[John Sand]

Kegged today @ 1.013, 7.9%abv. Still hazy, sample tastes and smells good.

[John Sand]

This is on tap now, and it is very very good.

[Beer-lord]

You can try to mess it up and still come out smelling roses!
Glad it came out great but can you do it again?

[John Sand]

I should be able to, I wrote it down.
Funny thing, I checked the original recipe that inspired this, and I changed the grains, gravity, style, and hops, so it really is a new recipe. Jane thinks it is my best work, I'll have a chance to try it on some other people in the next week.

[bpgreen]

Wilson

[John Sand]

So now I am thinking of brewing this again, with changes. I will lower the gravity and IBU back to IPA from IIPA, and brew ten gallons to split, half with 05, half with WLP530-Westmalle yeast. I would skip or change the dry hop in the Belgian half. Any suggestions?