Recipe help (hoppy Craft Range LME recipe)

[Calistan]

I've got a Craft Range LME I need to use up as it expires next month so I'm just wondering about recipe ideas. Last time in what was my first extract brew I made a lovely single hop IPA thanks to some fine help from you guys so I thought I'd ask again. I have the following lying around:

Bulldog Cascade Hop Pellets 100g Alpha: 7.1% USA 2014
Bulldog Admiral Hop Pellets 100g Alpha: 16.1% UK 2013
Warrior Hop Pellets 100g Alpha: 14.1% USA 2014 Crop

Muntons Dark Canned Malt Extract
The Craft Range Brew Enhancer LME 1.2 Kg
Brew at Home LME 1.5kg
Bewitched Amber Ale 1.3kg

Weyermann Pale Rye Malt 4.0 to 10.0 EBC 1 Kg Crushed
BEST Caramel Amber 61 to 80 EBC 500 grams Crushed

Bitter Orange Peel Chopped (Curacao) 100 grams (Belgium)
Brewing Sugar 1kg
Safale US-05 Yeast
Youngs Ale Yeast 5g
Lots of different herbs like meadowsweet, dandelion, licorice, etc.

Size-wise, my two fermenting vessels are in use but I do have two 5litre BB fermenters. I have a 15litre pot for boiling.

I would really like something hoppy again. It's probably all wrong but I have the following in mind:

Steep the caramel for an hour in 1litre of hot water. Strain into pot.
Bring the Craft Range LME 1.2kg to a boil in another one litre of water.
28grams of Warrior hops at 60 mins.
56grams of Admiral at 10 mins.
45grams of Cascade at 0 mins.
Cool down.
(At this point would the amber ale be a decent addition to the brew after it's been cooled and put in the fermenting vessel? Or could it have been added at the start with the LME? Or is something to disregard completely?)
Put 3 litres of cold water into vessel.
Sieve hops and pour wort into vessel.
Safale US-05 yeast.

Any help on that? Thanks in advance!

 

[DoctorMick]

I can't really comment on the malt/extract but I wouldn't combine admiral with cascade and warrior. I'd stick with warrior for bittering and use cascade for the 10 and 0 minute additions.

 

[mike77]

Is this a 5L brew? If so you are using way too much hops. The bitterness (IBUs) will be off the chart. Try running the recipe through the IBU calculator below. I personally like about 45 IBUs. You have some high AA hops. I don't think you need a 60 min addition. You could start at 20 mins and make additions every 5 mins. I don't know the hop combination but you could try using equal amounts of the cascade and Admiral. Start with a fairly small amount at 20 mins and increase the amount as you get closer to the end of the boil. With high AA hops I think the goal is to use as much hops as you can while also keeping the IBUs at a reasonable level

http://www.brewersfriend.com/ibu-calculator/

 

[Calistan]

Thanks Mick and mike. I'll alter the hop content considerably.

Any comment on how to proceed with the malt? Skip the amber altogether?