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Another change is that Heady Topper does not use wheat and their dry hop periods are 4-5 days long.

I got a great strain of Conan from a can of Heady Topper about 8 months ago. It consistently gets 85-93% attenuation. I've made numerous starters with it and I always make sure to save a little bit so I can keep reusing it. I've compared it to quite a few yeasts. In a starter beer it will give a...

Just the 30 minute addition alone (1 oz of 17% AA hops) calculates to over 96 IBU. It would have calculated to over 125 IBU as a 60 minute addition. Even as a 5 gallon batch with no boil off, that 1 oz of hops would have provided over 50 IBU and around 70 IBU as a 60 minute addition.

Gravity was down to 1.013 after a little over two days.

Last week I made about 9 gallons of 1.060+ OG beer with 25 pounds of grain and on the final sparge ended up with 4 gallons of beer that I didn't have room for so I kept it in my kettle in the fridge. I had a little time this Friday afternoon so I made another stout. The malt bill consisted of...

After a little less than a week, the S-04 batch was down to 1.016 and the US-05 batch was down to 1.018. I bottled the S-04 batch and added 1/2 oz dark toast oak chips to the US-05 batch. Also added first dry hop for the Heady clone, subbing Citra, El Dorado, and Galaxy for Amarillo

You could probably do a partial mash using Golden Promise and Caramalt with some extract (I actually mix Golden Promise and 2-row 50/50 rather than using Pearl, I used Pearl the first time I did the clone, and I don't notice a difference in the malt profile going with a Golden Promise/2-row mix...

Yeah, everybody hopped on that Simcoe/Amarillo bandwagon after DFH 90. I've tried quite a few dry hop combinations with varying amounts of Simcoe, Amarillo, Centennial, and Citra. IMO you'll get even more of a fruit bomb mixing Simcoe with Citra, Centennial, El Dorado, or Galaxy.

After 48 hours the activity on the S-04 batch has seemed to stop while the US-05 and my Heady Topper (Conan yeast) are still going. I pitched everything at 66*, but even with four 1.75 L frozen bottles in the CBFC, the temperature was up to 73* after 24 hours. The temperature right now is 64*...

I do think it's overrated and overpriced. Think about it this way, there are some highly rated beers that use only Citra, Galaxy, Centennial, or Simcoe, but there are no highly rated beers that use only Amarillo, it is always used in conjunction with another hop, usually Simcoe. Vinny from...

I had a big brew day on Thursday and decided to do a stout after brewing the Heady Topper clone for the fourth time. I started with 13 pounds of malt in my mash tun for the HT clone, mashed with 7 gallons of water at 148* for 60 minutes and drained into my kettle. I added 1.5 gallons of boiling...

Anybody get good results with WLP004 Irish Ale Yeast. I saw one person in this thread mention using it and they didn't seem to get good attenuation.

I have done this clone four times and subbed Amarillo every time, usually with some combination of Citra, El Dorado and Galaxy, mainly because I think Amarillo is overrated. It turned out great every time, and I'm sure I would have liked it less if I had used Amarillo. I think most of the other...

Sounds like I'm on the right track with the gypsum because I put 4 large tsp in 8 gallons of strike water, unfortunately I forgot to do it before I added the grain, so I opened my mash tun about 30 minutes in and added it.

Anybody know what's going on with brewersfriend.com? Their website is redirecting to other random sites.

Congrats on your clone. I have done this clone 3 times and am on step 1 of my two step Conan starter to do it again. This will be the first time I use Hop Shot and I am not using wheat this time either. I've said many times before the Heady taste is more about the dry hops IMO than anything...

Having the frozen bottles touching the carboy will definitely get the temperature lower quicker, but I find having the bottles not touching the carboy is better for keeping the temperature consistent. There is a similar system on the market that uses a jacket and a pump along with a temperature...

The Heady dregs will most certainly be different depending on what generation it is. I got lucky with the Conan I have from Heady dregs as it consistently gets 85-93% attenuation without the addition of oxygen to the wort. I think he is talking about late addition and dry hops because he...

I've done this clone 3 times without hop shot, actually using CTZ and Apollo (more aggressive hops) for bittering. I don't think it made such a difference, but I am going to do this clone again and use hop shot to see what I think. I've also done a head to head with Conan and WLP090 (San Diego...

At this point I'm thinking that after they add the flame out hops, they cool quickly to their desired whirlpool temperature, add the whirlpool hops for a particular amount of time, and cool quickly to pitching temps, so in my mind the question is what is the whirlpool temperature and how long do...