What do you think about this late hopped APA recipe?

[stadelman]

I think yes on the dry hops. 1 ou. for 1 week? As I mentioned before. I'm don't feel like I'm getting a ton of benefit from dry hopping. I'm probably wrong, so I'll toss some in.

As for the isomerization...

Jamil has a great web page on late hopping-
http://www.mrmalty.com/late_hopping.htm

If I understand it correctly, the hops are still isomerizing, it's just that I'm not going to get the utilization that I could get if they were boiled for 60 minutes. That's why I need a crapload. The plus side (should be) that the bitterness will have less of an edge to it and it should have a huge hop aroma and flavor.

[Nate Diggler]

Yeah, I've seen that... and it mentions adding just a few IBU's early in the boil more than once for balance, etc., especially here:

In beers with significant bitterness (50+ IBU), you might still want to add a charge of high alpha hops early in the boil. If you don’t, the amount of hop flavor can completely overwhelm some beers.

[stadelman]

Good catch!

Yeah, I've seen that... and it mentions adding just a few IBU's early in the boil more than once for balance, etc., especially here:

In beers with significant bitterness (50+ IBU), you might still want to add a charge of high alpha hops early in the boil. If you don’t, the amount of hop flavor can completely overwhelm some beers.

[BDawg]

+1 on the single small early addition.
I usually do it as a FWH addition:

http://www.brewtility.com/ViewRecipe.as ... its=metric

HTH-

There seems to be some kind of bug on that web site. Make sure that you set the units to "standard" or else it comes back with strange color levels and nothing looks right.

[stadelman]

Okay, here's what I've got

5.5 gallons
12.75 lb pale 2 row
.5 lb amber malt UK

mash @ 152 for 60 min, 168 for 10 min

All hops are Amarillo
.5 ou 60 min
1 ou 20 min
1.5 ou 15 min
1 ou 10 min
1 ou 5 min
1 ou 1 min
1 ou dry hop 7 days

OG- 1.066, FG- 1.017, Est ABV 6.35%
Color- 5.5 SRM
Bitterness- 61.2 IBUs

What do you think?

Thanks everyone for your help. I'll learned a lot on this one.

[BDawg]

Looks good

[ApresSkiBrewer]

Brew it, send me a bottle, and I'll let you know

Looks good to me though, rip that shit.

[stadelman]

I let you know how it turns out. Thanks for the help!