Ellie kicked cancer's ass again (again) Cascade/Citra IPA

Clare's (our) friend Ellie just passed her 2 year scan after beating cancer for the third time so this beer is in honor of her! Clare will have to come up with a good name for it so I will update it with that when it is ready to drink.

I was intending to re-brewing an old favorite with some additions but it ended up being a totally different beer since I screwed up a few things. It was a cascade and citra pale ale. I am adding some crystal 30 for more depth (it is old crushed grain so I am going with a bit more than usual) as well as a dry hop for 5 days with citra and cascade. I also bumped up the base malt by 3 lb on accident so it is a bigger beer than intended.

Recipe:

• 10 lb 2-row Malt
• 2 lb Vienna Malt
• 1 lb Crystal 30L
• 0.9 oz Cascade 6.2% @ 60 min
• 1.0 oz Citra 14.1%  @ 15 min (supposed to be 10 min but I screwed up)
• 1.0 oz Citra 14.1% @ 1 min
• 0.5 oz Citra 14.1% Dry hop for 5 days
• 0.5 oz Cascade 6.2% Dry hop for 5 days
• 0.5 tsp Yeast Nutrient (Wyeast) @ 10 min
• 0.5 tsp Irish Moss @ 10 min
• 10 drops FermcapS before boil
• 1000 ml yeast starter of third generation Wyeast 1450

• OG: 10.0% (1066) (Beersmith)
• 40.4  IBU
• 7.2 SRM

Mashing at 150 for 60 minutes, preheating the MLT with 3.125 gallons of 175 degree water and grains are going in at 164. Mash was at 149-150 and was really thick which is unusual. I added just a bit more water and got it moving more fluid but we will see how it ends up.

First: 1.25 gal 24.3%.
Second: 3.5 gal 18.2%
Pre-boil: 6.5 gal 14.2%

Boiled for 60 minutes, messed up the 10 minute citra addition (added it at 15 minutes instead, but whatever), ate some delicious dinner from the wife

and pitched the yeast. Fermenting in the fermentation chamber at 12.5 C and will dry hop in the primary when it slows down in a week or so. Original gravity was 15.9% Brix (1069) so the numbers were close on the efficiency. I had to update this since apparently I didn't pay any attention to how much base malt I was supposed to use in my recipe. The recipe actually called for 7 lb of 2-row and I used 10 soooo, it is more of a low bitterness IPA than pale ale but I am sure it will still be good.