New Recipes - IPA and Golden Ale Partial Mash

Martyn1989

I want to get moving on two partial mash brews for late Dec/early Jan, as I have the oatmeal stout on the go Ive chosen an IPA and a Golden Ale as I havn't done these styles yet, these are the basic recipes Ive deicided on, any advice would be appreciated.

IPA
Extracts:
1kg DME light
1kg DME amber (seemed the easiest way to get the amber colour)

Grains:
1kg Maris Otter
211g Crystal 150 EBC (I have 211gs left)

Hops:
Northern Brewer 30g @60
Willamette 9g @30
Chinook 21g @30 (should these additions be at 15mins?)
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Yeast:
White Labs Super San Diego Ale (want to try it)

OG:1.053
FG:1.013
ABV:5.3% (bit low but Im not mad on high ABVS)
IBUs: 61.9

I threw this together to get rid of some hops/grain I have left over from other brews? Anything you would change?

Golden Ale
Extracts:
2kg Extra light DME
1kg Maris Otter
I want to use some new grain I havnt used before, maybe vienna or wheat?

Hops:
Havnt made any decisions here maybe saaz or hersbrucker, again something I havnt used before, any recommendations? I would like to hit about 20 - 25 IBUs

Yeast:
Again something away from the Irish Ale/US-05/S-04 I tend to use, any recommendations here would be great too.

Thanks
Martyn

BeerNut

I doubt I'd bother with the two types of extract in the IPA. It'll be plenty amber even with extra light because of your crystal, I'd say. And yes, I'd push the middle hop additions later: to 10 or 15. I'd dry hop too.

Martyn1989

BeerNut wrote: »

I doubt I'd bother with the two types of extract in the IPA. It'll be plenty amber even with extra light because of your crystal, I'd say. And yes, I'd push the middle hop additions later: to 10 or 15. I'd dry hop too.

Thanks, yeh I'll push the hop additions back, I've deicided to scrap the golden ale, I'm going to do a slightly different version of a extract red recipe I did a while ago instead.

Should I be using a better variety of malts to get a more complex, better balance oof flavours in the beer, or will using these few ingredients well be enough?

BeerNut

My inclination is to keep it simple. When you taste it, if you reckon the flavour could be improved in one direction or another, then you can look at a more complex grain bill.