Has anyone had this session IPA yet? I enjoyed it a lot and wanna try and make a clone of it. Firestone Walker lists all this ingredients and hops on their site. Has anyone taken a stab at making a clone of this beer? If so please share.
I couldn't believe it was an ipa, was shocked that this is listed at 40-50 IBUs (thought it was no higher than 30).
Matt told me that he adds his first hop addition before primary fermentation was completely over, I've heard of other brewers doing this as well. With such a small amount being used in the dry hop I think one addition would be fine but ddicker60 is right in that union jack is two hop additions (take out the first addition and add 2nd) and double jack is 3. This is what I was told when directly talking to Matt at a beer dinner at Euclid hall during gabf last year. Pellets and the fresher the better.
Also if you do not keg you are already at a great disadvantage, I would rack to keg as soon as primary fermentation was done (be sure to purge keg with co2 before transfer and try to keep o2 exposure to a minimum) and after dry hopping is done jump the beer to a clean keg.
If you don't keg the less you transfer your product the better... i would probably skip the secondary and only do one dry hop addition.
How did Nelson sneak into this? Its pretty distinctive and if you really are looking for a clone, I think this will be a noticeable defect. If you are just taking EJ and making something close but what you want, go for it. I'd replace it with more mosaic.
Wanger99 how did your Easy jack clone turn out? I see you did a brew on 5/26...Just curious on how yours compared? Thanks
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