I don't know for sure. I didn't have a recipe from Pipeworks but this beer was hazy years ago long before the current craze so it made sense to me. I do know it's a solid recipe whether it's a real clone or not. Cheers.
Thanks to DrWill I was able to do a head to head with my beer and NvU. Mine is clearer but the color is very close. The aroma and taste of mine leans towards citrus (grapefruit and orange) where the NvU has the citrus plus mango and more malt. Mine is drier but is a very similar beer. I think...
Pipeworks website lists the malts, hops and that they use a dextrose (corn sugar) adjunct. I searched for a NvU knock off recipe and found one that was close to the one I used. The beer is pretty light in color, has little malt in the flavor and it's cloudy for a commercial beer so the high % of...
It's great and I'm getting rave reviews from my friends although they have not tried NVU. The aroma is great, very tropical and there's a very smooth, grapefruit/pithy bitterness. I'm going to brew again and dial the bittering hops down 10% or so but leave the rest as is. The color's spot on...
I brewed my version of Pipeworks Ninja vs Unicorn. I bought some a few months ago when I was in Chicago and was very impressed. It's a great summertime or anytime double IPA. This is for a five gallon batch.
Batch Size: 5 gallons
Estimated Original Gravity: 1.071
Estimated Final Gravity: 1.012...
You have a sankey connector which attaches to regular, commercial kegs. You need to replace it with gas in and liquid out ball lock connectors. They are available from multiple vendors. If you have a local home brew show they will likely stock them...