[blatz]

I like my IPA's to be a bit crisper with less caramel notes. The idea with those are to showcase the hops. A little more caramel back is ok for me in pale ales. I'm still on the fence with this.

i'm with you on that - my WC style IPA only has about 4-5% C-15L, but my pale ale is almost 10% - for some reason it works.

[hoser]

Put me in the camp of no or little crystal malts in my pale hoppy ales.  My base APA lately has been:

80% 2-row
10% Munich
6% Victory
4% Wheat

I think if you really want to get a feel of the Meridian hops I would eliminate the Galena, altogether.