I think this is a very good recipe, I brewed it once as an ipa and was quite happy with it. I want to brew it again, but this time as a 5% to 5.5% pale ale. I'll still stick with the same percentage of grains, approximately 70% Barke Pilsner and 30% 2-Row, just at lesser amounts to finish at a lower abv. I want to use hops I already have in the freezer, so the hopping schedule I'm considering is:
60 min. Magnum (17.5 ibu's)
10 min. Citra (11.8 ibu's)
2 oz. Citra WP @ 170° 30 mins. (10.3 ibu's)
.25 oz. Sabro LupoMax @ 170° 30 mins. (1.9 ibu's)
3 oz. Citra DH
This gets me to around 41.5 ibu's
My goal re: hop flavor is to use the Sabro so that it plays in the background to the Citra, making you realize 'Citra, but something else going on here, without saying oh, SABRO!!'
One side question for
@ihavenonickname or anyone else - wondering how are you getting an SRM of 3.9 using only two grains, one at 2.0 and the other at 1.8 when you do a 30 min. boil? When I enter my recipe in Beersmith I'm getting an SRM of 3.2 with a 60 min. boil.