American IPA Stone Ruination Clone

[BeachedBumm]

i did a 2 1/2 gallon boil with 9lbs of extract about 4 oz of continuous hops, 4oz of secondary dry hops and bottled for about a month so far and tastes amazing! My wort was toxic sludge green and now pours a beautiful amber hue. great recipe. I will be making again fo sho!

 

[natewv]

sooooo. I think this will be my first All Grain brew. I just got a 15 gallon pot off of craigslist. I do not have a mash tun but I do have pots that are:

15 gallon
6 gallon
2 x 3 gallon

How can I do a BIAB type of all grain brew with these pots?

 

[Rifester]

Your 15 gallon will work fine. It is all you need. I have a 10 gallon for BIAB.

 

[natewv]

Your 15 gallon will work fine. It is all you need. I have a 10 gallon for BIAB.

So I mash in the 15 gallon pot and I sparge in the 6?

 

[SilverZero]

So I mash in the 15 gallon pot and I sparge in the 6?

That would work. You could even double-sparge if you only use half the sparge volume at a time and can hang the bag over the big pot to drip while you dump the first sparge into the big pot. You can use a 3-gallon pot to heat the second batch while the first is sparging! I've never heard of anybody doing this, but why not?

Mash with 6 gallons of water, then sparge with 4 gallons however you choose (single or double). This was my best friend for my first two batches.

There's a great sticky on BIAB that you should look at. Pictures and everything.

On a related note, I've got this brew dry hopping right now, bottling this weekend. I tasted when I got the dry hops in and checked the gravity, and it was FANTASTIC! Tasted pretty much exactly like my favorite local IPA. I almost didn't want to dry hop because it was perfect as it was.

 

[natewv]

How hard and fast is the "dry hop after 7 days" rule? I'm at abut 11 days, that's not an issue is it? Essentially I dry hop when I reach FG, no?

I've just today been enlightened with the notion that transferring to secondary isn't really necessary, so I'm just throwing the hops in tonight yay!

 

[bjohnson29]

I typically dh after fermentation is 90-95% complete (~10 days)

 

[Jostci]

I am fairly new to brewing, and I attempted this recipe (extract) for my third batch. I dropped 2 ounces of the magnum in for the entire boil. How drAmatic of an effect will this have on the beer? I also misread the recipe and switched to the secondary after only a week and dry hopped for 2 weeks. I am right on with the temps. The fermentation had significantly slowed before I pitched the dry hops. Should I add more because fermentation wasn't complete?

 

[Yooper]

I am fairly new to brewing, and I attempted this recipe (extract) for my third batch. I dropped 2 ounces of the magnum in for the entire boil. How drAmatic of an effect will this have on the beer? I also misread the recipe and switched to the secondary after only a week and dry hopped for 2 weeks. I am right on with the temps. The fermentation had significantly slowed before I pitched the dry hops. Should I add more because fermentation wasn't complete?

What is the current SG? and how does the beer taste at this point?

 

[Jostci]

My sg was 1.073. I didn't take a reading when I moved from primary to secondary. It is currently in the 1st week in secondary with the dry hops. I tasted the bottom of the barrel of the primary, but mostly got a mouthful of hops.

 

[HOUZERSON]

This is going to be my next Brew, maybe tomorrow or Sat. Sencond brew ever, first sucked and I made gushers!Learned though so... excited, any one complete the extract version yet ?

 

[Grumpybumpy]

Just finished brewing this beast today! I made a few minor changes

Since I BIAB on the stove with a 5g pot, I used 9.5 lb of 2row and 2 lb of DME plus the crystal. Split the runnings between two 5 gallon pots and did a full boil. My LHBS's magnum strain was a little lower on the AA's so I FWH .25oz then added the rest at 60 min. I also included a 1oz 15 min addition for a bit more hop flavor. Used 1056 with a 1L starter. They got to munching away ridiculously fast!

Came very close to the OG with 1.076. This is definitely as near as I've come to hitting my target in the 3 AG's I've done (yeah, this was PM, but AG enough for me ) I normally overshoot it on brews with a lower gravity.

Thanks for the recipe, Yooper!

 

[Jostci]

I just bottle this brew today. It wasn't quite as aromatic as I'd hoped it would be, but it smelled and tasted great. My FG was 1.020 at around 65 degrees. I can't wait until its ready to drink, thanks for the recipe yooper

 

[emiller22207]

The GF discovered Stone Ruination on a recent trip and decided it's her new favorite. I just finished brewing this recipe. I missed the SG by a touch 1.073. But I mashed at between 145 and 148F, so hopefully it will attenuate down pretty low.

 

[Yooper]

I have a pound of centennial- I have to make this again!

 

[SilverZero]

It's funny, this was my second brew ever a while back, and it came out sooooo great. I tweaked it a bit to use the hops I had on hand (some Perle and Cascades at 30 and 10, then Centennial for the late hops and DH). It smells like hop candy to me. Best beer I've ever had - no offense, Boneyard or 10 Barrel - and I'm going to try to make it again next weekend.

But what's really funny is that I went in yesterday and got a bottle of Ruination, and it wasn't as great to me anymore. Whatever I did really worked for my own palate, but I guess it's really not the same as the official. No problem, still a good beer, and I wouldn't have been able to get my own win without this recipe as a starting point and the good fortune of having enough random leftover hops from my first brew.

In conclusion: Thanks!

 

[Jimmyjoe]

I have a question looking at the clone recipe from the BYO mag. it looks like it says to prime with 1/4 cup of priming sugar. Is this correct or should it have read 3/4 cup? Kind of a blurry picture of the recipe.

 

[maffewl]

Thanks for posting this Yoop... I believe it will be my next. I don't have time to read all 17 pages, so if this has been asked, I apologize... but I don't have any Pacman handy... I'm would think WLP007 would be an appropriate sub for this beer, wouldn't it?

 

[SilverZero]

I have a question looking at the clone recipe from the BYO mag. it looks like it says to prime with 1/4 cup of priming sugar. Is this correct or should it have read 3/4 cup? Kind of a blurry picture of the recipe.

Depends on the carbing you want, and your residual CO2 (based on ambient temperature). Try this calculator.

Thanks for posting this Yoop... I believe it will be my next. I don't have time to read all 17 pages, so if this has been asked, I apologize... but I don't have any Pacman handy... I'm would think WLP007 would be an appropriate sub for this beer, wouldn't it?

It will work if you like that yeast. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/wlp-007-pale-ale-10603/

 

[Yooper]

I have a question looking at the clone recipe from the BYO mag. it looks like it says to prime with 1/4 cup of priming sugar. Is this correct or should it have read 3/4 cup? Kind of a blurry picture of the recipe.

1/4 cup would be almost flat. I weigh my priming sugar (far more accurate) but I'd guess it'd be more like 2/3 cup.

 

[Jimmyjoe]

thanks for the reply Yooper and SilverZero. That is what I was going to do but the recipe was so blurry I could not make it out good.

 

[Grumpybumpy]

so I put one of these modified beast IIPA's in my fridge after a week of bottle conditioning and accidentally opened it after 20 hours in the fridge thinking it was my first IPA that I had put in a week ago. I thought it had a faulty cap, then tasted it and thought "man, that tastes WAY better than I remember. Too bad it's flat," then dumped it. Guh!

 

[petrostar]

Grumpy, you dumped it cause it was flat. Time to put on your big boy britches and man up and drink that sweet nectar of the God's!

 

[Grumpybumpy]

I know! My first ipa was less than stellar so I had no qualms dumping it until I realized what I had done. There's another in the fridge, possibly flat, but it's getting consumed no matter what!

 

[hogwash]

I just brewed this yesterday, modified with a combination of horizon & summit for the bittering hops and a combo of leftover C20 & C40 instead of just C20. Smells great though I undershot the OG by several points. Hopefully the hops won't be too overbearing, I was in the 60s so it's not like it's a small beer just not as big as originally planned.

 

[SilverZero]

I just brewed this yesterday, modified with a combination of horizon & summit for the bittering hops and a combo of leftover C20 & C40 instead of just C20. Smells great though I undershot the OG by several points. Hopefully the hops won't be too overbearing, I was in the 60s so it's not like it's a small beer just not as big as originally planned.

You could always keep some DME on hand for this sort of situation, though I don't know what the best way would be to mix it into the cooled wort.

 

[hogwash]

You could always keep some DME on hand for this sort of situation, though I don't know what the best way would be to mix it into the cooled wort.

Well I suppose I could boil some DME and add it to the fermenter (after cooling of course) to bring it up, eh? Hmm, gonna have to research that one.

 

[Grumpybumpy]

Well I suppose I could boil some DME and add it to the fermenter (after cooling of course) to bring it up, eh? Hmm, gonna have to research that one.

I did that sunday. I was using new equipment so I didn't know my boil volume or boil off so I didn't bother taking a pre boil reading. came up short on my numbers in the end so I boiled up and cooled some dme and added it. We'll see how it turns out. Not sure how it will affect hitting my target ibu's.

 

[hogwash]

Just boiled a pound & 11 oz. of DME & added it to the fermenter. I'm thinking with the expected IBUs of this recipe, I won't have to worry about it not being hoppy enough.

I'll report back as this progresses. Ruination is one of my favorites and if this gets somewhere even in the same zip code, I'll be happy!

 

[letmeholleratya]

I made the extract version of this a week ago. Used 9 lbs dme. I intended to swap magnum for zeus hops, but ended up getting them both (added 4oz of ~20 AA magnum). I spread the hop schedule out more. The additional hops were probably a lot of overkill, but i love hoppyness, what can i say? hydro sample/taster was delicious!