3 FLoyds Zombie Dust attempt. Help/info requested

[mtnagel]

Fair enough, I'll look to start the dry hop shortly, but 10 days to keg sure seems short...

Perhaps a bit, but it was done at least 5 days earlier.

 

[poptarts]

Just ordered a pound of citra from farmhouse, pretty excited to make this again. This will be my first repeat beer, and I have learned a ton since the last time I made it and the first time it was pretty tasty so I would imagine this time it should be stellar.

 

[te-wa]

Yum

 

[stonebrewer]

Brewing this for the fourth time tomorrow. I have actually put it into a ZD bottle at a share and people have declared it the best of the night, with actual Pliney, Heady, and others on the table!! This is a great citra brew, and I highly recommend it! Cheers all!

 

[BrewHogDeluxe]

I only add .75 at FWH. You should be alright. Just go with 2 oz dry hop


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[omonigan]

I brewed the extract version of this yesterday. I followed the recipe on the first page exactly. Original gravity was supposed to be 1.065 but I only ended up at 1.057
I plugged the recipe into my brewers friend app and it estimated the OG at exactly what I got. It's already fermenting, so my question is should I add some more DME at this point to bring the gravity up, or would that be a bad idea? Any input would be greatly appreciated!

 

[omonigan]

I brewed the extract version of this yesterday. I followed the recipe on the first page exactly. Original gravity was supposed to be 1.065 but I only ended up at 1.057
I plugged the recipe into my brewers friend app and it estimated the OG at exactly what I got. It's already fermenting, so my question is should I add some more DME at this point to bring the gravity up, or would that be a bad idea? Any input would be greatly appreciated!

 

[gothmog]

OK, I'm still reading the thread, but have a couple questions. I have been partial mash brewing for about 5 years, but this is going to be my first all grain. Are you mashing this for 1 hour? As far as the sparge, are you slowly draining the wort and pouring it back through, or using fresh sparge water at temp? Just need to know how much water to add initially and at sparge if that is different. Brewing this week. Thanks!

 

[gothmog]

OH, 5 gallon brew as well.

 

[skeezerpleezer]

OK, I'm still reading the thread, but have a couple questions. I have been partial mash brewing for about 5 years, but this is going to be my first all grain. Are you mashing this for 1 hour? As far as the sparge, are you slowly draining the wort and pouring it back through, or using fresh sparge water at temp? Just need to know how much water to add initially and at sparge if that is different. Brewing this week. Thanks!

For the mash, i usually do a 60min mash with about 1.25qt per pound of grain, then mash out at about 168 (add XX amount of XXX temperature water to bring the temp up to 168). When collecting 1st runnings I vorlauf about a gallon and pour it back into the mash tun. I usually put some foil or something on top to pour onto to keep the grain from being disturbed as much. Once it is drained, i add however much ~170F sparge water is needed to get my pre-boil volume, stir, let sit, vorlauf, and drain.

 

[gothmog]

Thx bro! Let ya know how it goes.

 

[fredhead]

I just bottled my first attempt at this.

Perplexed at my final gravity. Hit my numbers pretty good. Brewersfriend calculated on OG of 1.069 I got 1.070 in 5.45 gallons. The recipe estimates a FG of 1.018 (BF estimated 1.019). I pitched s-04, 9 days in primary, 15 days in secondary and a FG of 1.011! My abv is 7.74!!!!

Anyone know what happened? Only thing i can thing of is that it was real warm the whole time (think 74-77, i'm in the middle east).

I'd appreciated anyones input.

 

[Adaman05]

I just bottled my first attempt at this.

Perplexed at my final gravity. Hit my numbers pretty good. Brewersfriend calculated on OG of 1.069 I got 1.070 in 5.45 gallons. The recipe estimates a FG of 1.018 (BF estimated 1.019). I pitched s-04, 9 days in primary, 15 days in secondary and a FG of 1.011! My abv is 7.74!!!!

Anyone know what happened? Only thing i can thing of is that it was real warm the whole time (think 74-77, i'm in the middle east).

I'd appreciated anyones input.

Wow, with a temp that high and s-04, you're going to have some banana esters likely.

 

[gothmog]

Real quick, if anyone has an answer please, I'm at roughly 30 left in boil. Do all boil hop additions, including 1 min, come out at flameout, before cooling? Seems short on that last one. Thanks!

 

[doublehaul]

Real quick, if anyone has an answer please, I'm at roughly 30 left in boil. Do all boil hop additions, including 1 min, come out at flameout, before cooling? Seems short on that last one. Thanks!

yep - i mean that is the number of minutes before the end of your boil - is that what you mean?

 

[gothmog]

Meant do I remove all hop bags at flameout before cooling.

 

[doublehaul]

Meant do I remove all hop bags at flameout before cooling.

Leave them you'll get aroma from the steeping. Just get it cooled below 180f as quick as you can to avoid extra bittering

 

[gothmog]

Ended up with 6 gallons at 1.054. Happily bubbling away in primary with a good krausen already. Thanks all!

 

[dan_bowman]

Just brewed this for the second time. This time a mix between Citra and Amarillo.


Has anyone brewed an imperial version yet? Any link to the recipe?

 

[fredhead]

Finally drinking my first attempt at this...

Ooh ooh ooh! It's like small citrusy beer angels are boogieing in my mouth.

Seriously. Amazing.

 

[copper2hopper]

First time brewer getting started on this site and on brewing!!! Just ordered my hops grains and sa-04 yeast. Pretty pricey for this recipe but this thread for ZD has inspired me! Thank everyone. Can't wait to get my ingredients. Anyone have tips on what kind of equipment will be sufficient for this batch???

 

[gothmog]

Ho!

 

[gothmog]

Lee!

 

[gothmog]

Sheet!

 

[gothmog]

This is AWESOME! Might just be my best yet. Came out right at 6%. Very slightly more malty than original, but excellent. Great head retention, but is coming off slightly flat across the tongue. I have my kegerator set at 15 psi, which is great on my braggot. I only have a single stage regulator, and do not want to over carb anything on another tap, esp. a porter or stout. I at least temporarily bumped it up to 20 psi to bring it up. Thoughts?

 

[TallDan]

This is AWESOME! Might just be my best yet. Came out right at 6%. Very slightly more malty than original, but excellent. Great head retention, but is coming off slightly flat across the tongue. I have my kegerator set at 15 psi, which is great on my braggot. I only have a single stage regulator, and do not want to over carb anything on another tap, esp. a porter or stout. I at least temporarily bumped it up to 20 psi to bring it up. Thoughts?

How long has it been on the gas and at what temperature?

 

[gothmog]

Since 8/5 early afternoon, temp about 38* I think, at firehouse today. My braggot was on same time/temp, and it came out perfectly carbed. Still is.

 

[TallDan]

Since 8/5 early afternoon, temp about 38* I think, at firehouse today. My braggot was on same time/temp, and it came out perfectly carbed. Still is.

I find that most of my beers take two weeks to really get carbed up at serving pressure, but that depends some on the beer. I'd drop it back down to serving pressure and let it sit for a few more days and see how it's doing. 38F is warmer than i keep my keezer, so your pressure would have to be higher than mine, but it shouldn't have to be that much higher.

 

[copper2hopper]

Here is what I am brewing now:

Batch Size: 6 gallons
Estimated Original Gravity: 1.065
Estimated Final Gravity: 1.018
Estimated Color: 8.5 SRM
Bitterness: 65.9 IBU
Mash Temp: 155 F

Ingredients Amount Item Type % or IBU
11.75 lb Pilsner (2 Row) Bel (2.0 SRM) Grain 81.7 %
1.13 lb Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 7.8 %
0.50 lb Carafoam (2.0 SRM) Grain 3.5 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 3.5 %
0.50 lb Melanoiden Malt (20.0 SRM) Grain 3.5 %
1.25 oz Citra [12.40%] (15 min) Hops 21.1 IBU
0.75 oz Citra [12.40%] (20 min) (First Wort Hop) Hops 17.0 IBU
1.25 oz Citra [12.40%] (10 min) Hops 15.4 IBU
1.25 oz Citra [12.40%] (5 min) Hops 8.5 IBU
1.25 oz Citra [12.40%] (1 min) Hops 1.8 IBU
3.00 oz Citra [12.40%] (Dry Hop 10 days) Hops -
1 Pkgs California Ale (S-05) ***
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (S-04) ***

***I plan to split this into 2 carboys (3g each), and use S-05 in one and S-04 in the other to see how the yeast changes the flavor. I don't imagine either will be bad.

The changes from the last recipe I posted:
-I would end with about 1 extra oz of Citra that I don't want to re-seal since I still have about 2.5 lbs, so will add a bit more at the 5 and 1 minute additions.
-I had an extra .125 lbs of Munich, so I went ahead and threw it in.
-I forgot I left my 2-row with a friend prior to the move. I had 55 lbs of Pilsner on hand, so used it rather than driving to a brew shop (will be doing a 90 minute boil).

And can some one help me on the hop additions order? I going to be brewing this next week BIAB method and want to nail it!

 

[mtnagel]

I think the only confusing thing is it shows the FWH at 20 mins but that's just for the IBU calculation. With BIAB and FWH, just add the hops as soon as you pull the bag and start heating. There is no 60 minute bittering addition. The rest of the hops should be self explanatory.