All-Grain - Bell's Two Hearted Ale Clone (close as they come) - Page 28

**Cape Brewing** · 04-29-2010, 11:57 PM

Hey all,
Are folks brewing this per the recipe that is basically listed on page 1 of this thread? I would rather not read 27 pages if I can help it.

xjncoguyx · 04-30-2010, 02:19 PM

So i brewed up this bad boy last week and its almost time to transfer to the secondary. Came in perfect on the OG @ 1.064. The color looks good, i did something close to the original recipe, but adjusted the hop additions a little.

10#2-row
2#vienna
.5#crystal20
.5#cara-pils

all .5oz centennial @
60min
45min
30min
15min
5min
1min

and i also used US-05, so we'll see how the taste is but color looks perfect thus far, i compared it to a two hearted i had in the fridge

timOD · 05-01-2010, 02:40 AM

I brewed the recipe as posted two weeks ago. Sampled from primary today and it's great. Is there any good reason the primary is written as "at least 4 weeks"??

cmorgan · 05-07-2010, 03:56 PM

I can't wait to try this recipe! Unfortunately I just tried another one that was close but it called for 1.5 oz of hops at 60 min. That made it way to bitter and kind of soapy tasting for the TH. So next time I am for sure using this recipe. I don't have much CaraPils(if any) on hand right now... so what would you all bump up to compensate, the Pale Malt or the Vienna?

Also has anyone had luck dropping the 60 min addition? If so to what? I LOVE the TH and really want to get this one close, and personally I think making sure it doesn't have a strong bitter quality to it is key.

tamoore · 05-09-2010, 06:04 PM

Mine came out a little pale.....

Still, a fine tasting beer.

Edit: Has really cleared up over the past week.....

eharper · 05-17-2010, 03:17 AM

I just brewed this one today after getting in 1lb of hops a couple weeks ago. Vigorous fermentation after only about 5 hours using a triple-stepped starter from the dregs of 2 bottles of the real thing. Wish I drew a bigger hydro sample... this one tastes GREAT! I hit 60 IBUs (11.5% Centennial and was too lazy to convert) so maybe I'll dub this one Two-60...

First time I did a bulk buy on whole leaf. I didn't want to leave my kitchen! I have always used my vacuum sealer to store using regular vacuum bags, not the mylar stuff. They get REALLY compact then sent to the freezer. How do you store your leftover hops?

Lando · 05-24-2010, 01:42 PM

So here is what I can not figure out.
I made the extract version a while back and could not distinguish it from the real thing.

I go out of town for a few weeks, come back to my keg that is still half full and now it has the taste of amber malt that you get with DF 60min. I expected the hop aroma to be knocked down a bit, and it was, but where the hell did this amber malt taste come from?
It is not such a bad thing having a keg of IPA that goes from tasting like Bells to DF 60min,

but I can not figure out why...

Any ideas?
It was in the fridge and being drank upon for 2 weeks prior to me leaving town for 2 weeks. Prior to that I did a month long primary at 65F with Safale-05, no secondary,
and dry hop in primary.
It still taste great, but this is damn confusing. I haven't even made the DF clone in several months and this is the only keg of IPA I have right now so it's not like I got them mixed up or anything.

worth · 05-24-2010, 04:50 PM

My LHBS has Centinnial that is 6% instead of 9.5%. I tried to convert and came up with using roughly 1.6oz of 6% for each 1oz of 9.5%. Can someone who knows what they are doing check my math on this? Given the big difference in alpha acid, would y'all recommend sticking with the centenial or changing to a high AA hops? Thanks in advance for any help. Worth

machinelf · 05-24-2010, 05:08 PM

I've seen more than one extract recipe... can you point to the one you used? Thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lando

I made the extract version a while back and could not distinguish it from the real thing.

Lando · 05-24-2010, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by machinelf

I've seen more than one extract recipe... can you point to the one you used? Thanks!

Damn, now I can't be sure, but I am almost positive this was it. (I am not near my computer with beertools)

Light LME-7.5 lbs
Cara-pils .5 lbs
C-20 .5 lbs
Centennial .5oz 60 mins
Centennial .5oz 45 mins
Centennial .5oz 30 mins
Centennial .5oz 15 mins
Centennial .5oz flameout
Centennial 1 oz DH