Anti-Hero Clone Attempt

[CHansen6]

I'm looking to do something in this regard after Christmas. Truth be told, I'm in love with their double IPA Unsessionable and was looking to do something inspired by that. I'm planning to brew a few IPAs and session IPAs to try to get the hop and malt bills right before I go for a full on batch.

Besides Anti-hero they have a few other "Hero" beers (Citra hero, Galaxy Hero, Local Hero, etc). They seem to generally be similar beers, with the specialty ones tending to usually be around 75-80IBU and about 7.5% ABV, so a little heavier. I've found the most information on Citra hero, which still isn't a lot. The one thing I did pick up was that Citra Hero is fermented with a English ale yeast. http://revbrew.com/beer/detail/citra-hero I'm thinking I'll give WLP007 a try (or Wyeast equiv) on some of them. Several other highly regarded IPAs are brewed with this sort of yeast. I've mostly seen recommendations to keep the temperatures on the lower end of things to keep the ester production somewhat restrained.

 

[SailorJerry]

Has anyone tried this recipe lately? How long is the mash in time? I've read 60 and read 75 minutes - want to make sure we have it correct. It's on our pending brew list

 

[SailorJerry]

And, the recipe that I see online doesn't show a dry hop, is dry hopping recommended?

 

[ejf063]

So I guess I did disappear, at least all my notes did. I brewed it and it didn't last long. But I didn't get it close to the actual beer, at least I didn't think it was. --- The other thing, I did de-gas Anti hero and found the terminal gravity was 1.018. I am going to give this another shot, but I will move most of the late hops to a hop stand. Yes, dry hop this and use Centennial and Amarillo. And I may loose the crystal malt altogether.
I have a new system now, doing 10 gallon batches. When I re-try this I will also use different yeasts. I want to use 1968 on at least one of them.

 

[SailorJerry]

I emailed the brewery and they confirmed that they do not dry hop Anti-Hero, which surprises me. Keep me posted - we might be trying this one soon as well, even though I think our next like 4 recipes are all IPAs...