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Did a Dogfish Head 120 min clone yesterday over at a brew buddies house. Yeesh, that's a lot of hops.

Looks like there will be a load of trub in the carboy so probably won't get more than 3.5 gallons out of this batch, but that's ok.

Using wyeast 1318 for starters then will add lalvin 1118 later on with 2 sugar additions.

He was going try turbo yeast since we're trying for 21%a/v but we'll see how tha lalvin works out.
 
I also would like to see the recipe.

Just out of curiousity.... why was so much trub transfered to the fermenter? Was it not filtered of siphoned from the kettle to the fermenter? 1.5 gallons seems like quite a bit to lose to trub......
 
Sorry. Had a hard drive crash in the middle of editing a short film that was due for a film festival.

Back to some semblance of order...


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Here is the recipe according to Zymurgy.

5 U.S. Gallons
16 lb Pilsner Malt
.5 lb English Amber Malt 35L
11 lb Dextrose Sugar (added during fermentation)
1.38 oz Amarillo pellet hops, 10% alpha acid (continuous hopping) (30.8 IBU)
1.38 oz Simcoe pellet hops, 13% alpha acid (continuous hopping) (40 IBU)
1.38 oz Warrior pellet hops, 16% alpha acid (continuous hopping) (49.2 IBU)

Mix the hops in a container and add about .1 oz of the mixture every 3 minutes.

1.0 oz Amarillo pellet hops, 10% alpha acid (daily dry hopping)
1.0 oz Simcoe pellet hops, 13% alpha acid (daily dry hopping)
1.0 oz Warrior pellet hops, 16% alpha acid (daily dry hopping)

Mix the hops in a container and add about 0.2 oz of the mixture to the fermenter every day.

White Labs WLP001 California Ale or Wyeast 1056 American Ale yeast for initial fermentation. For the following fermentation use White Labs WLP099 Super High Gravity Ale.

Target Original Gravity 1.092 (22 Plato)
Approximate Final Gravity 1.042 (10.48 Plato after sugar additions)

My brew buddy made some changes after calling Dogfish Head and talking to their brewer but I don't have a copy of that at the moment.
 
If you decide to finish with the turbo yeast, hold off until the last sugar addition and keep the temperature around 60-65F.
 
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