Fat Head's Hop Juju Clone

[user 47131]

Update: We tasted Hop Juju 1 & 2.0 last night against one another...

The 2.0 has been in the bottle just over 4 weeks and I bottled with brown sugar. 2.0 has a clean nose with some malt and hop presence, but actually seems really balanced for an IIPA. Has a great amount of roasted malt character and strong bitterness and finishes dry with some pine notes. The passionfruit notes and flavor is still present, but the beer is really clean.

The first version has a strong roasted malt nose and passionfruit character. It also has a lot of caramael notes and strong malt presence, yet a good amount of bitterness and dry linger. It has more of a warm alcohol character than 2.0, even though both are 8.2% ABV.

The verdict, I like 2.0 better due to the fact that it has more of a hop aroma with pine notes and is very clean and smooth, whereas my buddy likes the first version better due to the caramel malt notes and strong malt character. The first iteration does not seem as balanced as 2.0 and maybe that's why I like 2.0. So, it sounds like he will take the first version recipe and brew it from here on out and I will brew 2.0! All in all, I think we have two really good recipes of beers that people will like and if not, that's more for us!

 

[BreezyBrew]

So how close would you say your clone is to the original?

 

[CTownBrewer]

To be honest, mine was a good IPA, but not JuJu.

On Fat Head's website, they list the ingredients for every beer now, so that gives me a new starting point. I put my guesses next to each ingredient, since I don't have Beersmith handy at the moment. If this comes out too sweet, I'd replace some of the pale malt with corn sugar.

Grain Bill
- Pale (~92%)
- C-15 (~5%)
- Caramel Light (~3%...CaraPils or an English Caramel Malt?)

Hops
- Chinook (Bittering)
- Centennial (Mid-Boil)
- Simcoe (Mid-Boil)
- Cascade (Flavor/Aroma)
- Citra (Flavor/Aroma)

Yeast
- American Ale

Gravities
- OG 20 Plato
- FG 5 Plato (which seems really high to me for as dry as this beer drinks)

 

[ohiobeer29]

To be honest, mine was a good IPA, but not JuJu.

On Fat Head's website, they list the ingredients for every beer now, so that gives me a new starting point. I put my guesses next to each ingredient, since I don't have Beersmith handy at the moment. If this comes out too sweet, I'd replace some of the pale malt with corn sugar.

Grain Bill
- Pale (~92%)
- C-15 (~5%)
- Caramel Light (~3%...CaraPils or an English Caramel Malt?)

Hops
- Chinook (Bittering)
- Centennial (Mid-Boil)
- Simcoe (Mid-Boil)
- Cascade (Flavor/Aroma)
- Citra (Flavor/Aroma)

Yeast
- American Ale

Gravities
- OG 20 Plato
- FG 5 Plato (which seems really high to me for as dry as this beer drinks)

how did this turn out I'm looking to clone this one

 

[fellatamas182]

Are there any updates to this? Any new recipes or standing recipes that have been improved? Would really like to have some juju year round!

 

[mtnagel]

*6 year bump* Any updates? The latest batch was fantastic so was making me want to try a recipe. They've updated some of the ingredients they previously used - Fat Head's Brewery Seasonals

I quickly tried to throw something together, but I'm definitely not an expert.

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 5.43 gal
Post Boil Volume: 4.43 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 4.25 gal
Bottling Volume: 3.95 gal
Estimated OG: 1.081 SG
Estimated Color: 6.8 SRM
Estimated IBU: 121.1 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 73.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 73.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU Volume
11 lbs 4.9 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 86.0 % 0.88 gal
10.5 oz Carahell (Weyermann) (13.0 SRM) Grain 2 5.0 % 0.05 gal
10.5 oz Caramel Malt - 10L (Briess) (10.0 SRM) Grain 3 5.0 % 0.05 gal
8.4 oz Carapils (Briess) (1.5 SRM) Grain 4 4.0 % 0.04 gal
0.0 oz Corn Sugar (Dextrose) [Boil] (0.0 SRM) Sugar 5 0.0 % 0.00 gal
0.50 oz Apollo [17.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 45.7 IBUs -
6.66 ml Cascade Hop Extract [60.00 %] (CO2 Extract) - Bo Hop 7 69.4 IBUs -
1.00 oz Mosaic (HBC 369) [12.25 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 8 0.0 IBUs -
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 9 0.0 IBUs -
1.00 oz Citra [12.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 10.0 min, 160 Hop 10 1.9 IBUs -
1.00 oz Mosaic (HBC 369) [12.25 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 10 Hop 11 2.0 IBUs -
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 10.0 min, 16 Hop 12 2.1 IBUs -
1.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) [50.28 m Yeast 13 - -
2.00 oz Citra [12.00 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days Hop 14 0.0 IBUs -
1.00 oz Eukanot [14.00 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 15 0.0 IBUs -

The bittering hops are just what I have on hand and am trying to use up. I already have Mosaic, citra and simcoe, so I leaned more on those since I'll have to buy the Eukanot, which I've never used before.