Formulating my first original recipe...what do you think?

[cwiseman77]

So trying to formulate my first recipe using all the resources I have used in my brewing life so far, advice and info online, John Palmer's book and recipe's I've used before. I am still brewing extract brew so here is my extract recipe.

2kg Light DME
350 Dark Crystal Malt (I'm hoping will give the beer a nice ruby colour and some toffee notes)
Safale s-04 dried ale yeast (which i will re-hydrate)

Hops:
60mins: 20g progress
15g East Kent Golding (EKG)
30mins: 10g Progress
10g EKG
10g NZ cascade
2mins: 10g NZ cascade and 5g EKG

Dry Hop: NZ Cascade (will be my first time dry hopping so not sure how much to use...ideas?)

So that's the plan so far. Any comments, concerns or suggestions on improving it will be much appreciated. What kind of beer will this produce. I was hoping ruby in colour from the dark crystal malt and taste somewhere between a british summer ale and american pale ale.

What you guys think?

:pray: :pray: :pray:

 

[graysalchemy]

I would say knock the crystal back a bit perhaps 200g. You might lose a bit of colour but it will probably taste a bit better IMHO.

Hops look good though :thumb:

 

[cwiseman77]

I would say knock the crystal back a bit perhaps 200g. You might lose a bit of colour but it will probably taste a bit better IMHO.

Hops look good though :thumb:

I'll happily sacrifice colour for taste! A lot of extract recipes use 3kg, am I fine using just 2, if I have the crushed crystal? What about the dry-hopping, any suggestions how much i should use?

p.s. should probably mentioned this is for a 22L brew (but you probably guessed that already!)