Rogue Dead Guy Ale Clone

I just opened the first bottle of a clone of Rogue's Dead Guy Ale my wife and I bottled a couple weeks ago...and it is a "spitting image" of it...minus the spit I guess.

Great color...good head...flavorful...a great end to a long work week!

That sounds great! Well, except for the spitting part.

I think tasting the first bottle out of a new batch is the most exciting part of homebrewing. Sounds like you did a good job with yours!

Would you share your recipe? Really like that beer and if yours is that close, I'd like to give it a try.

I was thinking about buying the AHS clone kit, or the Northern Brewer "Grateful Dead Guy Ale"....any advice either way?

The Dead Guy clone from NB went fast for me. IMO it was very tasty! However not quite a true clone in my opinion. More than likely it was because it was an extract kit. Nothing against extract cause thats how I roll

The one I used was an extract kit from my LHBS here in Charlotte, NC. I will gather the recipe and post it later today.

My recipe is pretty close, I think. You could try that one if you can't find another one.

I made Yoopers recipe for dead guy and it is awesome. Will always have a keg of it on tap. Do a search and you will find it here.

parratt1 said:

I made Yoopers recipe for dead guy and it is awesome. Will always have a keg of it on tap. Do a search and you will find it here.

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Or, look under the avatar at "recipes"!

Thanks, Yooper. I'm brewing the Two Hearted recipe you gave me tomorrow. I'll brew your Dead Guy after that.

Did you ever find the recipe?

This is Yoopers.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/dead-guy-clone-extract-ag-see-note-25902/

I tried yooper's all grain recipe. I only got 56% efficiency so its pretty light. 5.5%ABV. I read about grain crush and I blame my LHBS. I saw that .8mm is a good crush. Thinking back, the mill at my LHBS looked like it was around 2 or 3 mm crush.

4 lbs. Light DME
3 lbs. Extra Light DME
1 lb. bag (split in 3rds) Belgian Caramunich Malt, Crystal Malt 40L, German Dark Munich Malt
1 1/4 oz. Perle Pellet Hops (bittering)
1/2 oz. Tettnang Whole Hops (flavoring)
1/2 oz. Saaz Whole Hops (flavoring)
1 cup priming sugar (bottling)

I did a 1 hour boil with bittering hop addition for 45 minutes and flavoring additions for 10 minutes. 2 weeks in primary and 2 weeks in secondary.