Ommegang Rare Vos Partial Mash

[Dave_id]

Hi all,

Looking to clone Ommegang Rare Vos for my brother's college graduation present. Pretty new to brewing, got 5 partial mash brews under my belt, so far so good but they've all been Northern Brew recipe kits, pretty hard to screw them up.

Found this AG recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/ommegang-rare-vos-recipe-needed-33935/index4.html#post3822929.
I put it into BeerSmith and did the conversion to partial mash and here's what came out:

5 Gallon batch
75 min boil
OG Target: 1.070
FG Estimate: 1.016
SRM 8.8
IBU 17.3
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Steep/Mash:
1.42 kg Pilsner (2 Row)
Steep @ 150.0 for 75 min
Fly sparge with 5.22 gal water at 168.0 F
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Boil:
Add water to achieve boil volume of 5.83 gal
Estimated pre-boil gravity is 1.060 SG

Amt
3.39kg Pale Liquid Extract - (Boil 75.0 min)
24.5g Styrian Goldings - (Boil 75.0 min)
Orange Peel, Bitter (Boil 15.0 mins)
Grains of Paradise (Boil 15.0 mins)
Coriander Seed (Boil 15.0 mins)
Styrian Goldings - (Boil 5.0 min)

Yeast: WLP570
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Does this seem good? If this wasn't a gift I'd give it a go, screw up and learn but I'd rather get this one at least in the ballpark the first try so he'll be stoked. Any tweaks or suggestions? Thanks for your help!

 

[Randy_Bugger]

Ommegang uses a yeast that you can't buy at the homebrew store, but you can culture it from a bottle of Rare Vos.

The ingredients are on their website. I have no idea if your ingredients are the same as theirs minus the yeast because I am too lazy and drunk to look at their cluster**** flash website for you.

 

[IslandLizard]

Not sure if your recipe or conversion makes a good clone.

Good point made on the yeast.
Few other observations:

2-row or pilsner malt should be mashed not steeped, so use 3.75-4.5 quarts of water to mash your 3 pounds of grain. Batch sparge once or twice with a gallon each.*
Don't add all the LME at the beginning of the boil, maybe only 1/3 of it. Balance at flame out.

*You don't want to sparge 3 pounds of 2-row with 5+ gallons of water. Beware of tannin extraction!

 

[TNGabe]

I'm pretty sure there is an interview with the Ommegang owner and/or brewer on The Sunday Session podcast with a recipe, but that might be for Hennepin. There is a Rare VOS Can You Brew It that will have both AG and extract recipes.

 

[IslandLizard]

I'm pretty sure there is an interview with the Ommegang owner and/or brewer on The Sunday Session podcast with a recipe, but that might be for Hennepin. There is a Rare VOS Can You Brew It that will have both AG and extract recipes.

Thanks Gabe!
The link to the CYBI recipe is actually the first entry on the very bottom of this thread.