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In the July/August 2009 issue of Zymurgy there is an article by the brewmaster of Blind Pig Brewery where he talks about brewing Double IPAs. He also provides a clone recipe for Pliney the Elder which I brewed Tuesday night. The grain, hops and yeast with tax cost $70.41. The 13 oz of hops...

Thanks for all the advice. The grain bill for this recipe is 11 lb of 2-row pale, .5 lb of Crystal 45 and .5 lb of Carapils. I see that Carapils is dextrin too. The recipe only calls for .4 lbs of Dextrose added at the boil so I likely would not have made it to 1.070 anyway. It called for an 8...

I've been brewing for 22 years and made a bonehead mistake yesterday. When picking up the incredients for a Pliney the Elder clone brew recipe, I bought malto-dextrin instead of corn sugar. The recipe called for 0.4lbs of corn suger and what I added to the boil was .5 lbs of malto-dextrin...