Way, way, way over the top Sam Adams Utopia clone - #2 - Page 9

eriktlupus · 12-21-2009, 12:30 PM

soo when are you massholes brewing this up? i'm using essentially your recipe for this on the 11th of jan. i made the mistake of bringing this thread up at a local HB gathering and they jumped on it so were running it but only a 5g size run. really its shooting for more like 7g into fermentors but hoping for 5g in bottles.

yeager1977 · 12-21-2009, 12:57 PM

We are looking at the last two weekends in January.

yeager1977 · 12-21-2009, 01:59 PM

Make sure you use the High Gravity yeast with a BIG starter (not high ABV, just another 5 gallon batch) also when mashing make sure you use lots of rice hulls!!!!

Also add the maple syrup twice about 2 weeks in and 4 weeks in stirring up the batch every 5-7 days for the first 3-4 weeks

yeager1977 · 12-22-2009, 12:13 AM

FYI: I was at the Sam Adams brewery today and did a bit of research on Utopias. The recipe is similar but we are missing the Munich and are using 6row therefore we are substituting Munich for the 6 row since we have plenty of rice hulls.

jppostKW · 12-22-2009, 05:09 AM

So whats the final recipe (for now

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i am working on getting my self ready for a 17 lbs of grain for 2.5 gallons brew its gonna be great!!!!

yeager1977 · 12-22-2009, 01:50 PM

FINAL RECIPE!!!

Utopias #2 Clone
23-A Specialty Beer
Author: PTN and Yeager1977
Date: 1/10/09

Size: 14.0 gal
Efficiency: 67.0%
Attenuation: 87.5%
Calories: 667.23 kcal per 12.0 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.197 (1.026 - 1.120)
Terminal Gravity: 1.025 (0.995 - 1.035)
Color: 21.58 (1.0 - 50.0)
Alcohol: 23.72% (2.5% - 14.5%)
Bitterness: 58.9 (0.0 - 100.0)

Ingredients:
70.0 lb English 2-row Pale
23.0 lb Munich Malt
3.5 lb 2-Row Caramel Malt 60L
3.5 lb Toasted Pale Malt
2.0 lb Melanoidin Malt
4.5 lb Munich 10L Malt
6.0 lb German Smoked
4 lb Maple Syrup
4.0 oz Spalt Spalter (4.8%) - added during boil, boiled 60 min
4.0 oz Tettnanger (4.5%) - added during boil, boiled 60 min
3.0 oz Hallertau (4.5%) - added during boil, boiled 15 min
3.0 oz Hallertau Mittelfruh (4.5%) - added during boil, boiled 1 min
4.0 ea White Labs WLP099 Super High Gravity Ale

ara35 · 12-22-2009, 02:28 PM

this may be a stupid question but is there an extract version? if so, would anybody take the time to convert it?

yeager1977 · 12-22-2009, 03:54 PM

Don't know if you would want to do an extract of this, but if you did you would need munich, and smoked malt still, and they woul dhave to be steeped a good long time.

godofcheese · 12-22-2009, 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yeager1977

Don't know if you would want to do an extract of this, but if you did you would need munich, and smoked malt still, and they woul dhave to be steeped a good long time.

Or a huge partial mash. The munich and pale could both go to LME and the rest be rolled into a massive partial.

jppostKW · 12-22-2009, 04:19 PM

A quick google found northern brewer to have munich LME as far as the smoked malt and other grains if you arent trying to do a full 14 gallon version, i would use the biggest kitchen pot you have mash it in the oven for an hour than use a funnel with a screen or folding colander and rinse some water over it into the brew kettle going to get 40-50 eff from that but would get some of the required complexity