New at recipe making

[Ally_sives]

Hiya! Thought I would give making my own recipe for a small brew. I have never even attempted one before so not even sure about what some might even mean (water profile etc) but I gave it a bash. Anyone think it looks close to an actual recipe that makes sense?? Also I'm only making a load of smaller gallon batch brews to experiment. Cheers!

http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/267095/1-gallon-american-ipa

 

[Ally_sives]

Just invade the link above doesn't work as I suspect I have 2 pictures.

 

[Ally_sives]

2nd pic. Sorry, pretty bad at ousting :-D

 

[clibit]

Your IBUs are extremely high. You need to reduce the 60 min hops, and/or remove the 50 min hops. How bitter do you want it though?

 

[Ally_sives]

Yeah that's what I thought. I like it a little bitter. Think almost around punk IPA bitter.

 

[clibit]

Punk has 45 IBUs. Which is a good level of bitterness. Your malts are great, the hops are great, just cut the early hop additions so you're around 45.

 

[Ally_sives]

Nice one Clibit. Can always trust you to point the right way haha! Thanks :-D

 

[MyQul]

Nice one Clibit. Can always trust you to point the right way haha! Thanks :-D

He's usually pointing people in this direction>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=51779 :lol:

 

[Ally_sives]

Haha yeah I seen that one. It's what made me leave extract completely Behind and go AG.

 

[rodwha]

The way I began creating my own recipes was to look at commercial kits with recipe sheets as well as recipe databases on forums. That would give me several recipes of the style I was interested in. I'd create a recipe and then post it for advice.