Ithaca Flower Power clone recipe

Will be brewing this one next week. Any thoughts/suggestions/critiques?

FLOWER POWER CLONE RECIPE

OG = 1.079
FG = 1.021
Color = 6 SRM (yellow to gold)
IBU = 78.3
ABV = 7.7 %


FERMENTABLES

89% 8.5 lb Pilsen Light DME
11% 1 lb Honey Malt

Batch size: 5.0 gallons

HOPS

boil 60 mins 1oz Simcoe pellet 13.0 AAU
boil 15 mins 1oz Chinook pellet 13.0 AAU
boil 10 mins 1oz Citra pellet 11.0 AAU
boil 1 min 1.5oz Cascade leaf 5.5 AAU
dry hop 7 days 1oz Amarillo pellet 7.0 AAU
dry hop 7 days 1oz Centennial pellet 10.0 AAU
dry hop 7 days 1oz Simcoe pellet 13.0 AAU

YEAST

Two packets Safale US-05

MISC

boil 15 mins 1 tsp Irish moss
boil 15 mins 1 tab Whirlfloc


Cheers,
Jay B.

Thanks dstar. I did read that thread but thought it was a bit outdated and could use freshening up. I did enjoy your comments and pics though.

This is just my .02, but I would use Chinook for the bittering and use the Simcoe for the late addition. I heart Simcoe.

I sent a request for this to BYO's replicator. They responded so hopefully they get to it soon.

What up, Keffa? So you think I should flip-flop the first two hop additions?

iheartcraftbeer said:

What up, Keffa? So you think I should flip-flop the first two hop additions?

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Not much man. Yeah, I'd swap them, Simcoe is an incredible aroma/flavor hop, using it as a bittering hop is a waste, IMO, unless you are doing a single hop.

Just my pennies man.

Edit: I want to try this one, Amarillo+Simcoe = awesome combo.

Keffa said:

Not much man. Yeah, I'd swap them, Simcoe is an incredible aroma/flavor hop, using it as a bittering hop is a waste, IMO, unless you are doing a single hop.

Just my pennies man.

Edit: I want to try this one, Amarillo+Simcoe = awesome combo.

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OK, I'll give that a whirl. Thanks for the suggestion.

If it turns out good, I will bring a couple bottles to the next BA get-together for you to try.

Hell yeah! I'll have to bring a bottle of our next batch. When that'll be, who knows at this point. I gotta get my friend Bob off his ass to get his chiller fixed so we don't spend so much time cooling off our batches.


Cheers!

Anyone try this clone? How does it compare in color, aroma, bitterness, and flavor?

Any reason for using both the whirlfloc and Irish moss? This definitely looks like a real good ipa, I feel like I heard somewhere that they use a little bit of aciduated malt in the mash