boomtown25

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I have been asked to do a clone of this for a friend and this is the best clone recipe I have come across so far:

10# Blegian Pils
3# Briess Pilsen Light DME
1# Munich Malt
0.8# Carapils/Dextrine
0.8# Briess Caramel 80L

1oz Perle at 60 min.
1oz Perle at 40 min.
1oz Perle at 20 min.
1oz Perle at 10 min.

This recipe has the yeast listed as Wyeast 3787, but all the rest of the other clone recipes I have come across had a lager yeast. I do not have the ability to do a lager. So here are my questions:

1. Does this sound pretty decent (as a clone)
2. Can someone tell me how to turn this into AG (or if not, should I wait late in the boil to add the DME?)
3. Am I good with this yeast?

Thanks in advance beer ninjas!

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This was one of the first craft brews I ever had...Cant remember much about it except that the guy that I was drinking with had an arrogant bastard and that I was blown away by that in comparison.

wmarkw

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I have been looking for an AG recipe of Andy Gator!! No luck

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It's a Hellesbock, a lager, so you'll want to use a lager yeast and cold age it if you want it to come out close. Swamp coolers are pretty easy to make and if you use a towell/t-shirt to wick some of the water, a cheap fan blowing on it, and maybe some frozen water bottles in the swamp cooler if necessary...it can be done cheap.

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clay9_24

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Add me to the andygator AG recipe hunt. If I ever find that recipe (and can produce it somewhat close to the real thing) my life will be complete. I would even settle for a retailer that is less than 100 miles away that sells it.

It is always my road trip treat to myself.

tre9er

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With New Belgium being just 3 hours from here we get all of their brews in the grocery store even. Of course, the HyVee where I live has a pretty expansive craft/micro brew section. Probably 50' of non BMC beers, all cold.

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Dude, I am surprised to see all the blog traffic on this recipe, I just signed up to this blog site. Here is the original recipe as best I can remember it, I have lost my notes from 1988 when it was originally made. It competed through to Best of Show in the Crescent City Homebrewers competition in New Orleans back in the day. Then because of a kind offer from the then-owners of Abita, it went to Abita Springs and we brewed her up again. It was supposed to be a one time brew up, the rest is history.

For an original gravity of 1.080, we used 95 percent Ireks Pilsener malt and 3% Carapils and 2% Munich. This is a triple decoction beer as in keeping with German tradition, so that is what we did. The hopping would have been Hallertau pellets and Saaz pellets, for an IBU of about 25. The hopping would have been Hallertau dependant, probably 3:1 Hallertau:Saaz. Other German noble hops will do.

The yeast is Wyeast 2206. It was a great lager yeast back in the day and I think still is a great yeast, but my last conversations with Dave Logsdon at Wyeast suggested that over the years, 2206 has changed slightly and become less able to throw protein off of itself as good as it used to. Make a nice starter. I am sure we ran the yeast at somewhere near 55F, no warmer.

The key to the original Andygator, and the thing you have to factor into the grain bill, is the runoff cut off. We stopped the runoff at 6 Plato so as not to pull anything but sweet wort and leave the tannin behind. This was the idea of my brewing partner, Guy Hagner, who still rocks.

A historical note. The original name of the beer was not Andygator, it was Alligator. We were struggling with a name for a Louisiana dopplebock, and my wife Sally said "hey, if it needs to end in =ator, call it Alligator." Brilliant. While fermenting, strange things happened. Rush Cumming and Jim Patton called up and said "Dude, it mutated". And I said what? because I thought something was wrong with the beer. They said "no man, the beer is fine, the name mutated. We think it should be Andygator. " And so that is how it got done back in the day.

Ciao, let me know how you get on. Andy Thomas

tre9er

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Wow, the original brewer posted his recipe...that's friggin amazing.

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rhamilton

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Wow. I need to buy that guy a beer - thanks for the initiate details on the brew. And how do you go from brewing in NOLA to living Western Australia? Me and SWMBO are both from Louisiana and I'm pretty sure Andygator is what got me in her pants for the first time

Which reminds me I need to brew this

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In on this. I love andygator and to have the original brewer's recipe is awesome. Thanks! HBT never fails.