American IPA Dogfish Head 60 Minute Clone (AG) & Extract

[Mojzis]

Any malts that start with cara- are crystal/caramel malts. Caravienna, Caramunich, Caraaroma, carared, cara-amber- all crystal malts.

Amber malt is a slightly darker base malt. The best sub would be biscuit malt or aromatic malt, but crystal malt would be acceptable but different.

Whats funny is that I have plenty of both biscuit and aromatic but used cara-amber instead. C'est la vie

Thanks Yooper.

 

[mike_in_ak]

Any malts that start with cara- are crystal/caramel malts. Caravienna, Caramunich, Caraaroma, carared, cara-amber- all crystal malts.

Amber malt is a slightly darker base malt. The best sub would be biscuit malt or aromatic malt, but crystal malt would be acceptable but different.

Carapils?

 

[kombat]

Brewed it today with 6 oz. of Caraaroma instead of the aromatic malt. Also added 8 oz. of Carafoam for head and lacing. Pitched US-05, just waiting for it to take off now.

Missed OG by a bit (1.060), but I'm not worried. Can't wait to taste this batch!

 

[winstew]

SO looks like people have had good luck with this recipe... I have the ability to do a full 5 gallon boil but dont think I have the appropriate size tun to do an AG version. What would the recipe look like for just a Partial Mash?

 

[Yooper]

SO looks like people have had good luck with this recipe... I have the ability to do a full 5 gallon boil but dont think I have the appropriate size tun to do an AG version. What would the recipe look like for just a Partial Mash?

I'm pretty sure it's posted in the thread, but you can simply use .6 pound of DME for every pound of two-row that you want to replace.

 

[Yooper]

Carapils?

Yep. That's also a cara- malt. (crystal malt).

 

[wormraper]

this looks so sexy. gonna be trying this brew tomorrow morning as an all grain BIAB batch.

 

[kombat]

Brewed it on Sunday, and fermentation still hasn't taken off. I pitched another packet of US-05 tonight. Crossing my fingers that something's happening by tomorrow morning.

 

[wormraper]

brewed this bad boy up this morning.... efficiency was a bit low though (only my second all grain batch).... got about 62% efficiency with a 1.051 OG reading....

 

[pwkblue]

buying today...brewing tomorrow.

edit: too much columbus in the freezer...subbed for Warrior.

 

[kombat]

Brewed it on Sunday, and fermentation still hasn't taken off. I pitched another packet of US-05 tonight. Crossing my fingers that something's happening by tomorrow morning.

Fermentation finally took off, I've got a 2-inch krausen now and it's bubbling about 3 times per second in the blowoff pail. Can't wait to taste this one!

 

[smoorenc]

I have made this 2 times and both times it was fantastic. Getting ingredients ready to make again!!

 

[Roadliner]

Just waiting on it to carb in the bottles.. can't wait to drink it!!

 

[SudsyPaul]

Last of the ingredients required were picked up, today. Brewing tomorrow evening with a buddy. Here's hoping it's as tasty as both remember from the original

 

[kombat]

Mine's been in the fermenter for a week and a half now. The krausen has fallen but the airlock is still bubbling now and then - there are CO2 islands on top of the beer. It's super cloudy - is that normal?

 

[D_Nyholm]

Mine's been in the fermenter for a week and a half now. The krausen has fallen but the airlock is still bubbling now and then - there are CO2 islands on top of the beer. It's super cloudy - is that normal?

It was a long time ago but I do remember mine being cloudy. It finally cleared up after a 4 day cold crash and some time in the keg.

 

[dtfleming]

Pickup my ingredients today, brew this on Tuesday.

 

[dtfleming]

I had to use wlp 1060 yeast and cascade instead of Amarillo

 

[zyx345]

I just did a tasting of mine (all grain) after 4 weeks of fermentation and 3 weeks of bottle conditioning. Used S-04 instead of S-05 but I followed the grain bill and hop schedule from the OP.

Mine came out tasting very thin and watery. Kind of line BMC (Bud, Miller, Coors) but with more alcohol. Fermented at 60 degrees F. Not sure what went wrong as I mashed at a higher temperature 158F because I was going for a malty body. I ended up with 5.25 gallons of wort after boil and my SG was 1.073 and FG was 1.022.

 

[SudsyPaul]

I had a pale ale come out a bit watery - I left it alone an extra 3 weeks, and it tasted much better after that.

Sounds like the flavors just haven't had a chance to mesh all that well. I've never fermented anything that cool, so I can't really comment on that aspect.

I have a batch fermenting away with 1056. Healthy krausen on top and nice hoppy smell

 

[Bamsdealer]

Whats the consensus on the yeast and mash teemp for this brew? With all basemalt, i know ill have a hard time keeping this in the upper teens like the recipe calls for. Also, where's the deep color coming from in this brew? Id think that this would look more like a pilsner than a malty ipa without a good dose of crystal

 

[homebrewhaha]

There is the 6 oz. amber malt in there too.

 

[dtfleming]

Brewed the extract version today, my OG was off at 1.060. The hydro sample
tasted and smell great, color looks good. I changed the hop additions of the simcoe and amarillo. I add .50oz of each at 10min and .50 oz of each at 0min.

 

[NFryan]

So I was going to brew this up this weekend. I have no access to Amarillo hops anymore due to the shortage. Any recommendations on replacements. I found another post suggesting 3/4 cascade 1/4 columbus as a very close replacement. Any other suggestions?

 

[jakecpunut]

So I was going to brew this up this weekend. I have no access to Amarillo hops anymore due to the shortage. Any recommendations on replacements. I found another post suggesting 3/4 cascade 1/4 columbus as a very close replacement. Any other suggestions?

Zythos!

 

[smoorenc]

I uses Cascade and Chinook and it still tasted good.

 

[NFryan]

I uses Cascade and Chinook and it still tasted good.

So Cascade instead of Amarillo

and Chinook in place of the simcoe?

 

[smoorenc]

yes

 

[t-ross]

So I just tried brewing an extract version of this today. I ended up with an OG of 1046 and I'm trying to figure out why. Recipe is as follows:

Title: DFH - 60 min clone

Brew Method: Extract
Style Name: American IPA
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 2.5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Boil Size: 1.5 gallons
Efficiency: 59% (steeping grains only)

STATS:
Original Gravity: 1.069
Final Gravity: 1.019
ABV (standard): 6.53%
IBU (tinseth): 60.37
SRM (morey): 9.01

FERMENTABLES:
1 lb - Dry Malt Extract - Light (19.8%)
3.3 lb - Liquid Malt Extract - Light (65.3%)

STEEPING GRAINS:
0.25 lb - United Kingdom - Amber (5%)
0.25 lb - American - Caramel / Crystal 40L (5%)
0.25 lb - American - Pale 2-Row (5%)

HOPS:
0.5 oz - Columbus for 60 min, Type: Leaf/Whole, Use: Boil (AA 15, IBU: 28.87)
0.5 oz - Amarillo for 30 min, Type: Leaf/Whole, Use: Boil (AA 8.6, IBU: 12.72)
0.5 oz - Simcoe for 30 min, Type: Leaf/Whole, Use: Boil (AA 12.7, IBU: 18.78)
0.5 oz - Amarillo for 7 days, Type: Leaf/Whole, Use: Dry Hop (AA 8.6)
0.25 oz - Simcoe for 7 days, Type: Leaf/Whole, Use: Dry Hop (AA 12.7)

This was my first time using whole hops. They have a much higher volume than pellets. My guess is that I lost some wort when I strained out the hops going into the fermenter. I made up the volume to 2.5 gallons so this would give me a low OG. Does this sound reasonable? I did some math and looks like I would have to lose ~0.75 gal to account for this OG. I had 1 oz of whole hops added to the boil.

Any thoughts as to have to fix it? I could either leave it go (already pitched yeast) or I could boil 1 lb of DME in a quart of water and add it in. Should bring me up to 1057.

Thanks

Tom

 

[pwkblue]

it is also possible that your wort was stratified when you measure the OG...and the actual gravity is acceptable. Sometimes the water added to bring the volume up to the desired level doesn't mix well. The heavier wort remains low....and the lighter partially mixed wort/water is on top. Quite possible to have a very low reading...and everything will mix during fermentation and end up normal