Hop Crisis by 21st Amendment

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rjhockey

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Ok i'm going nuts I just found a beer I absolutely love, but I can't pick out the flavors. I was hoping I could get some help on cloning up a recipe here if anyone has tasted it. All I know is its 9.7% abv and 94Ibu.
 
Well after looking at 21st-Amendment's site I've come up with:

Recipe: Hop Crisis Clone TYPE: All Grain
Style: Imperial IPA
---RECIPE SPECIFICATIONS-----------------------------------------------
SRM: 8.7 SRM SRM RANGE: 8.0-15.0 SRM
IBU: 95.6 IBUs Tinseth IBU RANGE: 60.0-120.0 IBUs
OG: 1.087 SG OG RANGE: 1.070-1.090 SG
FG: 1.014 SG FG RANGE: 1.010-1.020 SG
BU:GU: 1.102 Calories: 151.6 kcal/12oz Est ABV: 9.6 %
EE%: 80.00 % Batch: 5.00 gal Boil: 7.37 gal BT: 60 Mins

---WATER CHEMISTRY ADDITIONS----------------


Amt Name Type # %/IBU
7 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 48.3 %
6 lbs 8.0 oz Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 2 44.8 %

Total Grain Weight: 14 lbs 8.0 oz Total Hops: 9.00 oz oz.
---MASH PROCESS------MASH PH:5.40 ------
>>>>>>>>>>-ADD WATER CHEMICALS BEFORE GRAINS!!<<<<<<<
Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Mash In Add 30.75 qt of water at 159.5 F 150.0 F 75 min

---SPARGE PROCESS---
>>>>>>>>>>-RECYCLE FIRST RUNNINGS & VERIFY GRAIN/MLT TEMPS: 72.0 F/72.0 F
>>>>>>>>>>-ADD BOIL CHEMICALS BEFORE FWH
Fly sparge with 1.30 gal water at 168.0 F
---BOIL PROCESS-----------------------------
Est Pre_Boil Gravity: 1.071 SG Est OG: 1.087 SG
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
1 lbs Corn Sugar (Dextrose) (0.0 SRM) Sugar 3 6.9 %
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 4 14.4 IBUs
1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 5 26.2 IBUs
1.00 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] - Boil 60. Hop 6 36.7 IBUs
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 7 11.1 IBUs
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 8 7.2 IBUs

---FERM PROCESS-----------------------------
Primary Start: 11/7/2011 - 4.00 Days at 67.0 F
Secondary Start: 11/11/2011 - 10.00 Days at 67.0 F
Style Carb Range: 2.20-2.70 Vols
Bottling Date: 11/21/2011 with 2.3 Volumes CO2:
---NOTES------------------------------------

 
I have never had this, but if I was guessing, they use a healthy dose of columbus at 60 minutes, and most of the centennial and cascade later, 20 minutes to flameout. I imagine this should have 6-8 oz in the boil.

They also have 4 dryhops listed, you have none. I would do .75-1.00 oz of each they have listed.

Lastly, they oak it. I would probably use a lighter roast oak in the secondary. Dryhop after oaking
 
Just found this out of curiosity to see if anyone else liked it. I love this beer myself, and cloned up a recipe and brewed it. It's dry-hopping in secondary right now:

Hopville . "Hawp Kwisis" Imperial IPA Recipe

It tastes great already - hoping to keg it around Christmas time, and I'll see if I can find some cans of the original to see how it compares.
 
Just an update - I just put this on the gas 2 days ago and I'm waiting for it to fully carb. Even with the light carbonation, I might come out and say this is the best beer I've brewed to date. I dry-hopped with 4oz of pellet hops, and it was aged on oak spirals as per the brewery's version. I also first-wort hopped this beer, which I've not attempted before. The hop character is POW, but all the nice flavors you want are there with a decent malt kick at the end and just a touch of hoppy bitterness. Once it's been on the gas for a couple more weeks I'll do a proper tasting and really give overall impressions and suggest a tweak or two if need be. I love beer.
 

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