TheCrackpot

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Chilling a batch of this right now. I upped the Horizon from 7g to 17g. I split the difference from the recipe and what cmoon calculated. I don't mind a little extra bitterness.

My LHBS was out of the London ESB so I substituted 1450 Denny's Favorite. I've used it on IPA's before with success.

Also, the LHBS had white wheat & red wheat as the only malted wheat options. I went with white wheat. Hope that was the right call.

MongoloidMormon

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When they say 6 gallons post boil, is that before or after any Trub and Chiller loss? I Beersmith I've calculated my Trub/Chiller loss as .5 Gallons and therfore it wants to bump my post boil volume up to 6.7 gallons and therefore bumps my pre boil volume up as well.

TheCrackpot

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I'm pretty sure that with the Can You Brew It crew, they figure that a half gallon is lost in the kettle to trub and a half gallon in the primary to trub as well.

EricCSU

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It is exactly as written.

6 gallons at the end of the boil.

5.5 gallons into the fermenter after trub and chilling loss.

5 gallons into the package.

Eric

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MongoloidMormon

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OK. Thanks. Interesting that Beersmith makes you use a batch size of 5.5 gallons in order to get 5 gallons into the package. Also, it screws up my OG numbers when I lower the batch size. Does anyone have this recipe in a Beersmith file that they could send me?

TheCrackpot

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Well, I just drank a bottle of my Maximus and a bottle of Lagunitas' side by side. I have to say that this is the closest to an exact clone that I have ever made, which is a wee bit surprising considering I used different yeast, I overshot the OG (1.084), and undershot the FG (1.024).

The color is nearly spot on if you take out the slight chill haze that mine has.

Even though I love Maximus and have passed gallons of it through my kidneys and liver, I think I prefer my version just a little bit. There is a flavor in the original that I've only noticed when drinking it side by side with my clone. It's hard to describe but I think it is malt derived. Mine just seems to meld together a tad bit better (and by 'tad' I mean TAD). This is the first time I've ever said that about one of my clones. I love homebrewing.

It's gonna be hard to keep from burning through this batch before summer.

I guess I could always brew it again.

AgentHubcap

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Was thinking of brewing this next, but something seems really off. I punched the recipe into beer calculus, and have found that the OG is too high, FG is too high, and the IBUs are waaay to low.

Any ideas? Do I trust the recipe, or did I mess something up?

http://hopville.com/recipe/1385900/american-ipa-recipes/maximus-clone

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