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My wife wanted me to try to clone North Coast Pranqster for her birthday. So I had 2 months to come up with a recipe to accomplish that and get it fermenting for the party. I found a few people talking about making this beer. They all went in different directions. I took them all plus standard Belgian Golden Strong recipes and used beer smith to make something out of lots of info from all over. To make the project fun I went and bought two 4 packs of Pranqster and harvested the yeast from 8 bottles. I built that yeast up into about a half pint of yeast and used that in one 5 gallon batch while the other I used a 1.5 liter starter and a smack pack of 1388. I probably over pitched both by a little but the beer came out great.

Batch Size: 10 Gal
Boil Size: 13.5 Gal
Estimated OG: 1.073 SG
Estimated Color: 4.7 SRM
Estimated IBU: 34 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.0 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
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79.3% 23# Pilsner US
6.9% 2# White Wheat Malt
3.4% 1# Munich 10L
3.4% 1# Flaked Wheat
6.9% 2# Table Sugar

3 oz. Liberty (FWH)
2 oz. Tetnang 30 Minutes

Mash at 1.25 qts/lb for 75 min @ 148F Sparge with 168F water to get 13.5 gallons into boil kettle.

How did it come out?

jbeerman said:

...... packs of Pranqster and harvested the yeast from 8 bottles. I built that yeast up into about a half pint of yeast and used that in one 5 gallon batch while the other I used a 1.5 liter starter and a smack pack of 1388. I probably over pitched both by a little but the beer came out great.

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HailSagan666 said:

How did it come out?

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It's okay...I don't like to read either. I'm more of a picture guy too.

I bought a bomber of Pranqster and did a side by side the other night.

My beer came out with nice fruity earthy aromas and a silky smooth mouth feel. Mine is a little lighter probably because I used pilsner instead of 2 row. Tasted really good.

I did a Pranqster alike also. It was pertty close to your recipe, but I used Belgian pils and Belgian Pale, instead of all pils. The Munich and wheat were pretty close to the same percentages.to what you did.

I used a combo of 1214 and 3787. A small starter for the .1214 to get it going and just a smack pack of 3787.

Turned out great.

Yours sounds good. I should try culturing some Pranqster yeast.

jbeerman said:

I bought a bomber of Pranqster and did a side by side the other night.

My beer came out with nice fruity earthy aromas and a silky smooth mouth feel. Mine is a little lighter probably because I used pilsner instead of 2 row. Tasted really good.

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WOW! That's a great side by side comparison. The color is unnoticeable. Great work.

HailSagan666 said:

WOW! That's a great side by side comparison. The color is unnoticeable. Great work.

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Thanks. It turned out really good. Should be a big hit at my Wife's party Friday night!

beergolf said:

I did a Pranqster alike also. It was pertty close to your recipe, but I used Belgian pils and Belgian Pale, instead of all pils. The Munich and wheat were pretty close to the same percentages.to what you did.

I used a combo of 1214 and 3787. A small starter for the .1214 to get it going and just a smack pack of 3787.

Turned out great.

Yours sounds good. I should try culturing some Pranqster yeast.

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Yeah I found a few different clone recipes and some Golden strong recipes. Then took a little bit from each one to build my recipe.