Fat Heads Headhunter IPA clone

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From Mitch's new book


Malt bill:
American two-row malt 50%
Maris Otter malt 25%
CaraHell malt 6%
Crystal malt6%
Toasted wheat flakes 5%
CaraPils malt 2%
Dextrose 5%

Mash: 60-minute rest at 151 F with 6.7% of kettle hop bill Centennial 9.2% alpha acids.

Total boil time is 90 minutes. At the start of the boil in the kettle (90 minutes)
use 17.7% alpha acids CTZ at 23.3% of the bill. Identical additions at a ratio
of 6.7% each Citra (12.4% alpha acids) and Centennial (9.2% alpha acids)
are added at 45 minutes and again at 30 minutes. At the end of the boil add
23.3% Simcoe (12.27%o alpha acids), 16.6% Centennial (9.2% alpha acids), and
3.3% Columbus (14.2% alpha acids).

Fermentation
Use WLP001 or WY 1056 for pitching. Hold at 67" F (19.4" C) for four to five
days. Hold 2 days at fermentation temperature for a diacetyl rest before
cooling to 50" F (10" C). Crop or drop the yeast.

Dry hop for 10 days using
Equal parts Centennial, Simcoe, Citra, and Columbus at 0.2l oz./gal. (0.40
lb./bbl.,l.5a g/L) for each hop. Allow the temperature to rise to 60' F
Rouse hops with CO, at days 2, 5, and 8. Drop hops (remove or rack off
hops) at day 9. Cool for two days at 40' F, and finally cool to 33" F (0-6"
C). This beer is not filtered.

Targets:
OG: 17'P (1.068 SG)
TG:3.4 "P (1.014 SG)
ADF:80%
IBU:87
ABY:7.5%
Color: 8.5 "L (16.2" EBC)

Here is what I came up with although not exact should be pretty close.
For the last additions says at flame out, used 10 min just to calculate isomerization in the whirlpool
the SRM for the toasted flaked wheat is estimated

Batch Size : 6.0 gal
Bitterness: 87.6 IBU
Color 8.4 SRM
Boil Size: 10.3 gal
Boil Time: 90 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Final Bottling Volume: 5.3 gal

Malt Bill

7 lbs 12.0 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) 50.5 %
4 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) 26.1 %
14 oz Carahell (13.0 SRM) 5.7 %
14 oz Crystal Malt 40L (40.0 SRM) 5.7 %
12 oz Wheat Flaked Toasted (8.0 SRM) 4.9 %
5 oz Cara-Pils (2.0 SRM) 2.0 %
12.5 oz Corn Sugar 5.1 %
7 g Centennial [9.20 %] - Mash 60.0 min 1.3 IBUs

Hops

21 g CTZ [17.70 %] - Boil 90.0 min 39.2 IBUs
7 g Citra [12.40 %] - Boil 45.0 min 7.9 IBUs
7 g Centennial [9.20 %] - Boil 45.0 min 5.8 IBUs
7 g Citra [12.40 %] - Boil 30.0 min 6.6 IBUs
7 g Centennial [9.20 %] - Boil 30.0 min 4.9 IBUs
24 g Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min 11.6 IBUs
17 g Centennial [9.20 %] - Boil 10.0 min 5.8 IBUs
4 g Columbus [14.20 %] - Boil 10.0 min 2.1 IBUs

28 g Centennial [9.20 %] - Dry Hop 10.0 Days
28 g Simcoe [12.27 %] - Dry Hop 10.0 Days
28 g Citra [12.40 %] - Dry Hop 10.0 Days
28 g Columbus [14.20 %] - Dry Hop 10.0 Days
 
looks good to me but I am still a little stumped on how to covert the hop %'s to actual weight?
 
Here is the water profile

Ca 163ppm
Mg 8.5ppm
Na 21ppm
SO4 365ppm
Cl 23.5 ppm
HCO3 104ppm
 
I brewed it.....in the ballpark....I carbed it in the bottle.....you get a slightly different taste....noticed a stronger centennial taste in the beer....followed the recipe to a tee.
 
So is it good? Would you recommend the recipe? Looks like yours may be a little young too. Maybe it will improve with a little more age. Let me know. I LOVE headhunter so would love to brew this up if it is good. Thanks.
 
I know this is an old thread but was looking on brewing IPA bracket, they have changed the hops to simcoe, columbus, citra mosaic and hbc 366
 
I brew the recipe referenced earlier in the thread on a semi regular basis, in fact I have a batch waiting to be dryhopped sometime next week.

I picked up a 4 pack of HH a couple of months ago and the taste was definetly not the same. The hop flavor was stronger and I felt the bitterness was higher. I dont use mosiac or hbc and cant comment on them, but I think there is more late addition Columbus than in the clone recipe.

This recipe will give you a damn good beer, just not a good clone.
 
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