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I am still new to brewing and currently just doing extracts with steeping grains. I have searched the web and come up with several very similar recipes for a GI IPA clone. Below is what I found. Can anyone tell me how to change this to an extract w/ steeping grains recipe? Also, would anyone make any changes? Is it possible to come close with a clone recipe if you are only doing extract?

Batch Size (GAL): 5.00 Wort Size (GAL): 5.00
Total Grain (LBS): 14.25
Anticipated OG: 1.065
Anticipated SRM: 10.6
Anticipated IBU: 77.5
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75
Wort Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
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84.2 12.00 lbs. Pale Malt(2-row)
5.3 0.75 lbs. Wheat Malt
5.3 0.75 lbs. Munich Malt(2-row)
5.3 0.75 lbs. Crystal 60L

Hops
Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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1.30 oz. Centennial Pellet 10.50 58.3 60 min.
1.35 oz. Fuggle Pellet 5.00 13.4 30 min.
0.75 oz. Fuggle pellet 5.00 3.9 15 min.
0.25 oz. Cascade Pellet 6.50 1.9 15 min.

Extras

Amount Name Type Time
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1.00 Tablet Whirlfloc Fining 20 Min.(boil)


Yeast
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Danstar Nothingham Dry or WYeast 1098 British Ale (I have seen either used in the different recipes)

Mash Schedule
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Mash Type: Single Step 152 Degrees

Here is the old GI desription of the beer.
"IPA 5.9%
Our gold-medal India Pale Ale is brewed with only one malt, but liberally hopped with Centennial, Fuggles and Cascades for a huge, fresh hop flavor and long hoppy finish". 58 IBU and 10 SRM

Here is the result one of the people that brewed the clone posted.
"Definitely made a good beer. Very close to the original. That said, I would tend to do a little more hops or modify the type and time to get a more pronounced bitterness probably with the Centennial and the Fuggle. Dry hopping would also improve the brew, but I'm lazy."

You might be better off doing a mini mash to get the best representation of this beer. One of the smarter guys will probably give you the best advice on how to do this exactly but 1lb 2 row and all the other grains in the mini mash with extract to get the og right.
BUB

change the 12 lbs of 2-row to 10 lbs of extract
you can use like .5 lb of morebeers wheat malt extract in place of the wheat malt.
The Munich I would leave in there, though you wont get much conversion, you'll get some flavor. Maybe even bump it up to a full pound for this reason.

If dry hopping this beer, any ideas? Would whole hops benefit the hop schedule as opposed to pellet? Would it change the proportions? Love Goose Island IPA and would like to come at least close to it at home.

I can't offer much advice but I took this recipe off brewboard.com and someone there attempted it dry hopping with 1 oz of Cascade. In talking to the brewer at the brewpub in the past I know Goose only uses pellet hops in the brewpub.

I have been drinking Goose IPA for years and when I expanded my selection to try many other IPA's I wondered why I stuck with only Goose for so long. Then after revisitng GI IPA after a year away I realized that it is still one of my favorites IPA's and can stand up to most American IPA's.