Bumped rye back up as I believe the issue was hop bitterness and not rye spiciness. Increased cardamom as I don't feel like it was really coming through. Replaced Chinook with Amarillo as the bittering hop and reduced IBUs, also replaced Amarillo with El Dorado as the flavour/aroma hop to add some extra fruit character.
Mash notes:
Total water: 6.12g
Strike temp: 167f
Target mash temp: 154f
Mash vol: 2.35g
Sparge vol: 3.77g
1st runnings: 1.30g
Total runoff: 5.00g
Target water profile:
Ca 55.5
Mg 10.4
Na 30.6
Cl 86.5
SO4 71.3
Salt additions:
Gypsum 1g
Epsom 2g
Calcium Chloride 3g
Baking Soda 1g
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