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ODell's Easy Street Wheat is unfiltered and you can harvest the yeast from the bottle. I've been told they use German Ale yeast for their house strain. Good luck cloning!

How about making a Lagunitas Little Sumpin Sumpin clone? There's almost 50% wheat in that beer. And if you home toast some of the wheat (which I highly recommend) you may help distract from any objectionable flavors in your wheat. Here's a link to a HBT forum post that has a Little Sumpin Sumpin...

Khaler, try to sub out chinook for the columbus bittering hops. It gets much more O'Dell'y, but there's still room to tweak the hop schedule. More dry hops are never a bad thing either.

Ah, if only I could find Simcoe and Amarilo hops...it's gonna be a long summer! I have just a couple comments based on many attempts to clone the year round version of O'Dell IPA. I'm no expert, but I keep getting closer to making a quality clone. I'm a big fan of German Ale yeast for that...

Kahler, Definitely let me know if you're gonna be in town for the Great Minnesota Get Together. I'd love to trade some beers, or just drink some with you if transporting your beers proves too cumbersome. I'll try and have an Odell IPA clone for you to try. PM me and we can make plans :-)

I brewed the Little Sumpin Sumpin recipe this weekend and I've been pleased with it so far. I actually found Santium hops for this batch...thanks Northern Brewer! I'm glad I got extra unmilled wheat to experiment with toasting because I burned my first attempt. It smelled great cooking at 350 F...

Kahler, I'd be interested to hear your tasting notes. I re-brewed this beer with Chinook bittering hops at 75min and I moved the Amarillo from the boil to a dry hop addition. It tasted much more like Odell's IPA when I racked it to the keg than my previous batches ever have. Can't wait for it...

Kahler, did you get around to brewing your recipe? I'll be interested to see how you like it. I've been doing some homework on this clone recipe and I came across the Basic Brewing Radio podcast from October 23, 2008 where they interview the head brewer at Odell Brewing Company...

I've had success with this recipe, and I keep tweaking it. Don't worry about not having room for all-grain...your grain bill sounds great. I'll be adding some ESB malt to my next batch. I also plan to add a half ounce of cascade to the dry hops and I'm going to move the amarillo from 40 min to 5...

I'm a huge fan of the Odell IPA too! They just started shipping to MN this summer and I fell in love instantly. Here's an all-grain recipe I've been working with (comments appreciated): 10# Two-row 2# Vienna 1# Crystal 20 0.5# Carapils 1oz Horizon @ 60min 0.5oz Amarillo @ 40min 0.5oz...