All-Grain - Bell's Two Hearted Ale Clone (close as they come) - Page 27

HopBomb · 03-14-2010, 01:23 PM

I'm all set to brew this for the first time today. A few weeks back I bulk ordered hops, including a pound of 2009 Centennial. I pulled out the package from the freezer this morning and noticed the AA on these are only 5% (not the the 9.5% in the OP recipe). So do I need to effectively double the entire hop schedule including the late and dry additions?

**Yooper** · 03-14-2010, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by HopBomb

I'm all set to brew this for the first time today. A few weeks back I bulk ordered hops, including a pound of 2009 Centennial. I pulled out the package from the freezer this morning and noticed the AA on these are only 5% (not the the 9.5% in the OP recipe). So do I need to effectively double the entire hop schedule including the late and dry additions?

Not the late additions, since you don't get much in the way of bittering anyway, and not the dryhopping. I'd change it like this:
2.25 oz Centennial [5.00 %] (60 min)
1.50 oz Centennial [5.00 %] (15 min)

1.00 oz Centennial (5 min)
1.00 oz Centennial (1 min)
1.00 oz Centennial (Dry Hop 7 days) Hops

That would be around 53 IBUs.

HopBomb · 03-14-2010, 04:11 PM

Great. Thanks for the quick reply Yooper!

jtlawlor · 03-14-2010, 05:53 PM

I am with your brother... brewing this one today too! Looking forward to it... just mashed in at 151ish.

I have a bunch of Centennial that I bought at the end of last year... (Dec, freezer kept) I have heard that the AA's go down during storage. How much would they lose over the 3 months?

**joety** · 03-14-2010, 06:32 PM

I don't think they lose much if you freeze them.

**Yooper** · 03-15-2010, 01:03 AM

I finally did a head-to-head taste test. This beer is very, very close. I'm not sure I could say which is the clone and which is "real". The clone may be ever so slightly darker when I hold them up to the light, one has a coppery glint while one has a golden glint. Otherwise, pretty much identical.

I did the recipe as written, I believe, but did FWH with my 60 minute hops.

Thanks for this recipe! I love it, and will still make it when I have a large supply of centennial hops!

I did some interesting water adjustments- ending up with a fairly balanced sulfate/chloride ratio rather than a heavy-to-sulfate water. I think it worked great in this recipe!

J-ROD · 03-24-2010, 10:37 PM

I really want to try this for my next brew and have an excess of cascade....do you think I can get away with using cascade for the 60 min addition without really messing up the overall flavor?

JSomps6 · 03-25-2010, 12:36 PM

Sounds like an experiment!

If not, go here and make a ten gallon batch!

http://www.hopsdirect.com/hops/pellethops.html

oldschool · 03-25-2010, 03:15 PM

just make something close but different and call it your beer.

xjncoguyx · 04-23-2010, 03:22 PM

Im kind of confused by this recipe as it seems a little light on the O.G. Bells has Two-Hearted listed at 1.064 which if it finishes around 1.012 would give you ~7%ABV the only thing im having trouble finding is the IBU's.