I am brewing up a batch of this right now. Using all leaf hops except for Pacific Jade. A little concerned as to how much I will lose to hop absorption.
If gravity is close, and you aren't too far off on volume (1/2g or so) you could probably top off with h2o and not notice a big difference. It is a big, bold, hoppy beer.
Keiskamma1 said:Below is my recipe....
Wernerherzog said:I'm worried about doing this beer because of wanting to age it in primary but won't I lose a lot of the last addition hop aroma from that? Curious to hear what people have to say. I've done plenty of big beers and plenty of hoppy beers but never a really big beer that aimed at so much aroma.,
drawdy10 said:Brewed this today! at 65% efficiency i had to use 3 extra pounds of 2-row.
I finished with 6 gallons at 1.095 since i didn't have my boil off rates down on this new pot but extra beer is fine with me!
Those 5 ounces at flameout with whole leaf hops is quite ridiculous but it tasted great from the hydro sample. Pitched a 2 Liter/ 2 vial starter of WLP001 and split the batch between 2-6 gallon carboys. Also, i used Amarillo instead of Pacific Jade since I bought my hops from freshhops.com and they don't have Jade. Also, I am planning on dry hopping with Citra and Amarillo instead of Nelson since I have no idea where to get those. Do you think that Nelson is crucial for this or will a citra/amarillo blend be fine?
Final cost to brew this beast: $60! Most expensive, biggest brew i have ever done.
Thanks for the recipe, having fun with this brew, cheers!
Keiskamma1 said:Nelson Sauvin is unique, there is no substitute.
My brew of this cost $65.11 for a 5 gallon extract batch.
I used the Pacific Jade and Nelson Sauvin hops. No yeast cost though as I cultured from a bottle of the original. Should probably factor that cost in, but then I did get to enjoy 80% of it.
Been drinking my creation for a couple of weeks now and I am totally loving it.
What a great beer this is!
Only complaint was that I expected slightly more hop aroma. I will report back in a few weeks.
This is my first recipe using Pacific Jade, so don't know a lot about it. Nelson has a different flavor and from what I have seen there isn't a real alternate, but I love me some citra and Amarillo. I bet it ends up being great.
I haven't calculated my cost to brew this, but can't imagine it was over $35, probably less. I did drop $6 on the Belgian candy sugar, need to make my own next time. Did you pay a premium for hops? Grains? $60 seems pretty high. Still way cheaper than $8 a bomber if it comes out good though.
So my best friend is the Mid Atlantic Stone Rep. He was over the other night and I poured him a sample. He asked me to bottle some for a big meeting he has coming up in a few weeks with his co-workers. he wants to throw it down on the table and ask them "what beer is this? 15th Anniversary? Not really!" He knows his beer, and if he liked it that much, then I'm pretty happy with the way it came out. trust me, he won't give a compliment if he can at all avoid it, especially to me. So thanks to skeezerpleezer for the recipe! It is awesome, and I have it on my nitro line. Quite tasty!
That is a serious endorsement.
Also, I need to choose more awesome friends.
socalhomebrewer said:Had a question for extract brewing. I can only boil about 4 gallons. My concern and from previous IPA's is what I have learned is boil hop utizalation in extract brewing. In extract brewing I know that gravity is much higher during the boil and then water is added in the carboy. But hop untilization with the higher gravity is lower so I wanted to find out what people would recommend. Should I add most of the extract late (80% or so) to get the most out of the hops in the boil, or add more of the extract in the start to carmelize the malt (this beer seems to have a lot of calmalized malt flavor) and up the hops, or more extract at the start and boil another gallon or 2 of water with a portion of the hops with that. Please let me know what everyone thinks.
So I decided to give this beer a go this last week. I had a few problems during my mash, because I was thinking about work and not brewing. Yeah Party Foul. Anyway, ended up with OG of .090, not bad for the meat headed mistake I made. I made a 1 liter starter with the San Diego Super Yeast, and pitched after 24 hours. Holy Shiz that yeast is an animal. In barely over 72 hours, my SG reading was 1.015. Amazing.
SLCRebellion said:So I decided to give this beer a go this last week. I had a few problems during my mash, because I was thinking about work and not brewing. Yeah Party Foul. Anyway, ended up with OG of .090, not bad for the meat headed mistake I made. I made a 1 liter starter with the San Diego Super Yeast, and pitched after 24 hours. Holy Shiz that yeast is an animal. In barely over 72 hours, my SG reading was 1.015. Amazing.
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