American Pale Ale Three Floyds Zombie Dust Clone

[olotti]

Where is he getting his information? The website says 6.2%

He read it to me literally right off of the bottle. Idk unless he grabbed the wrong bottle but that'd b a little hard I mean those fff labels are pretty distinct. I trust what he told me and until I can get my hands on the ones he's been holding for me that's all I have to go by other than the website. Lol so Idk.

 

[Agher32]

The first time I hit 8.2 abv on accident. I used all extract, got drunk and added an extra 2 lbs lme. I thought it rocked, but the hop build wasn't right and it was heavier than what I wanted. I shot right in the middle on this attempt compared to the recipes listed online.

Here's my recipe:
Grains
10.5# 2 row pale malt
0.5 # melanoiden malt
1.25# Munich malt
1# caramel 40
0.5# carapils

Hops
.5 galaxy 60
.5 centennial 60
1.0 citra 15
1.0 citra 10
1.0 citra 5
1.0 citra 1
2.0 citra dryhop after 14 days for 7
0.5 galaxy dry hop ""

Wyeast 1968 London ESB Ale

Tastes delightful. Hop bite and punch on the end. Just bottled lastnight. I'll follow up in a couple weeks to let you know. My first attempt was ALL citra hops, but it didn't taste how I wanted it to, so I threw my own take at it.

 

[user 165400]

Yeah, I have drank plenty of zombie and it certainly doesn't feel like 7 and a half. I have a 12 pack box at home I'll look on it to see if it says but everything I've ever seen has said in the 6 range.

Pitched two packs of 1968 Sunday morning and man that stuff went nuts. It's still showing activity this morning. Two days ago it was going so crazy I thought the air lock was going to shoot out of the top. Can't wait to take gravity this weekend.

 

[skeezerpleezer]

The last I knew it did not even say what the percentage was on the bottle.

 

[blackonblack]

Sampled my first batch last night. Been a week in the bottle. Poured in to a pint glass. A lot of head! This beer carbed up fast.

Color is awesome. Rich copper color that's very cloudy.

Smell is amazing! VERY strong peach aroma. Some citrus and some floral if you can get passed the really strong peach smell.

Beer tastes great but wasn't what I was expecting! An interesting beer. Indeed. It's very smooth and then gentle bitterness comes through in the end along with the citra hop aroma and smell.

A very easy drinking beer that's different in a good way! One of the best beers I think I've had! I can't believe I made this! Ended up having 2 more immediately after I sampled it! Thank god I made a second batch this will go fast.

BREW THIS RECIPE

 

[Doctor_M]

Since I'm posting in here again I will reiterate this recipe is definitely a clone. I am brewing 10 gallons of this tomorrow!

Not a bad plan. I just don't want to blow down past the goal fg by letting the it sit too long on the yeast. I would how ever like a nice clean beer. The toss up. ZD isn't a super dry beer so id like to keep FG around that 15 - 18 range

If you are experiencing over attenuation you should be looking at other variables in your brewing process then "oops I left my beer on the yeast cake to long" ..... taking beer off the yeast cake before primary fermentation is over can lead to many other problems.

Where is he getting his information? The website says 6.2%

+65,000
I dunno about that.

 

[user 165400]

Since I'm posting in here again I will reiterate this recipe is definitely a clone. I am brewing 10 gallons of this tomorrow!



If you are experiencing over attenuation you should be looking at other variables in your brewing process then "oops I left my beer on the yeast cake to long" ......

Yes I understand this. The only things I've read is more of temperature issues (thermometer being off). Any other reasons you know of?

 

[blackonblack]

Anyone want to trade bottles from this recipe. I'm very curios to see how others concoctions have panned out

 

[j1n]

Anyone want to trade bottles from this recipe. I'm very curios to see how others concoctions have panned out

Where are you? if your local id be willing to swap.

 

[j1n]

I think this is a really good IPA but i find it to be too sweet. My FG was bang on @ 1.018. If i did it again id prob use less grains and a higher attenuating yeast and make it a session IPA. love the Citra flavor and aroma though.

 

[blackonblack]

Where are you? if your local id be willing to swap.

I appreciate the offer but I'm in orange county ca

 

[olotti]

Without tasting mine yet and my readings being og-1.064 vs 1.068 and fg of 1.010 vs 1.014 what should I expect. Post boil I was at 1.068 but low on volume so I topped off a little which brought the OG down to the 1.064. All my temps were spot on and I even double checked my thermometer ands its calibrated. Don't know why the fg dropped so low but it ramped the abv up to 7.1% so will mine be drier than the original? ??

 

[TallDan]

I have a batch that is drinking nicely now. I'd be happy to bottle some for a trade.

Mine is a bit more bitter than my last batch. Less of a clone but still a great beer IMHO.

 

[blackonblack]

Hey Dan would you like to do a trade? Mine have been bottled for a week not and have carbed up quite well. A few more days to a week and it should be done . I'd love to trade if your interested in sampling mine. I really like my beer but I'm no expert .
Hopefully better as it finishes conditioning .

 

[Steve3730]

Well my second attempt at the recipe and this time I nailed it. I got to try mine and than hit a local place and try the real zombie. Obviously theirs was clearer. But mine had more citra aroma. Real zombie had a little more bitter bite at the finish while mine was a little smoother. Guessing I was short a few ibus.

 

[te-wa]

So after five weeks from the start of brewing this I've had it in a keg for the last week at 40° and I've probably drank a good 8 pints of it...and it's still really really cloudy.
I'm thinking I might have a poor starch conversion that just won't clarify, what do you guys think?

152 @ 60m mash

 

[ultravista]

Steve3730 - please post your recipe and/or Beersmith file.

 

[blackonblack]

So after five weeks from the start of brewing this I've had it in a keg for the last week at 40° and I've probably drank a good 8 pints of it...and it's still really really cloudy.
I'm thinking I might have a poor starch conversion that just won't clarify, what do you guys think?

152 @ 60m mash

Hmm. I did a 152 mash for 60 and mine was pretty clear. Did you secondary or just primary and dry hop?

 

[Steve3730]

It was very close skeezer's original. I did a 4 gallon boil this time so removed the 60 minute addition. I'm a whore for citra aroma and had an extra ounce of whole leaf hops left from an old recipe so did 3oz of pellet 1oz of whole leaf for the dry hop.


OG 1.062
FG 1.010
abv 6.8%
6.00 lb Extra Light Dry Extract (3.0 SRM) Dry Extract 70.6 %
1.00 lb Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 11.8 %
0.50 lb Carafoam (2.0 SRM) Grain 5.9 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 5.9 %
0.50 lb Melanoiden Malt (20.0 SRM) Grain 5.9 %
0.75 oz Citra [12.40%] (First Wort Hop) Hops 12.5 IBU
1.00 oz Citra [12.40%] (15 min) Hops 12.4 IBU
1.00 oz Citra [12.40%] (10 min) Hops 9.1 IBU
1.00 oz Citra [12.40%] (5 min) Hops 5.0 IBU
1.00 oz Citra [12.40%] (1 min) Hops 1.1 IBU
4.00 oz Citra [12.40%] (Dry Hop 4 days) Hops -
Wyeast 1968

 

[te-wa]

I did a 21 day primary then dry hopped for four days then racked into a keg for a week
This is not just yeasty cloudiness coming through the serving tube since I've poured about a gallon of it served at 40°
I've been cold crashing at 33 for about 30 hours now
It still tastes great, it just looks like a saison, heh.

 

[djevans3]

This beer is a beast. I've got my carboy in a swamp cooler and pitched two packs of S-04 a little warm at 68. Once fermentation got going, it shot up to 70.5. I was throwing ice bottles at it with all I had and couldn't get it down below 69, so I expect it to attenuate a little further and have some esters. Will be interesting to see how it comes out, but good thing is I've never had the real thing so no expectation

 

[D-Train]

Thanks for the recipe!

I made this for my first AG. Hit OG spot on though at a slightly lower volume from boil off. FG was low (1.012) probably because I pitched a packet of s-4 and half or more packet of us-05. I'm thinking the us-05 "won". I bottled 16 days ago and have starting sampling a bottle every few days. I decided to "sample" two last night and they are some damn good beers. I've never had ZD so I can't compare. Mine are quite cloudy probably from so much late addition and dry hops. Hoping it clears a bit in the fridge. If this is the result I wish I started brewing my own beer years ago.

 

[Poiman]

I love this recipe. I've brewed it three times so far. My last batch was a lot cloudier than the first two so I thought that I would try and clear it using gelatin in the keg (first time trying that). I wish I would have just left it alone. Before the fining, lots of great aromas, after, not so much. The gelatin seemed to scrub a lot of the aroma out of the beer. Nice clear beer, but you can't taste clear. Brew and learn!

 

[aStoutObserver]

I take it you used the gelatin after you dry hopped?

 

[user 165400]

Just took a gravity. After 10 days I went from 1.070 to 1.024. And dang is the beer clear.

Want to bump the gravity down a little more. 1.018 to 1.020 (to ensure I bit attenuation for this yeast). Thinking about letting the beer sit in the swamp cooler at its current temp (67) for another few days then pulling it out and letting it rise to room temp for a day before secondary. Haven't worked with this yeast before but seems like raising the temps for a few days slowly helps it finish out? Thoughts?

Also very clear. Shocked at how clear it is with just ten days in primary.

 

[mtnagel]

That's pretty high. You're not reading the FG with a refractometer are you?

Mine was down to the final gravity of 1.013 after 5 days so it was even sooner since that was the first time I checked it.

 

[user 165400]

No I'm not. What was your OG?

 

[hezagenius]

So i just had my first pull from the keg. Besides being cloudy with particles floating around (probably due to the racking being a cluster!@#$), it tastes good. I've never had the real thing so I have no idea how close I got. My beer is very reminiscent of Sculpin IPA. For those that have tried the real deal, does it taste similar to Sculpin?

I fermented for 3 weeks around 68-70 and dry hopped with pellets for 2 weeks. It's been carbing for 12 days at around 12psi. I couldn't wait any longer. I was hoping for a much clearer beer. I've been making beers that have been crystal frikkin' clear lately and I attributed that to the whirlfloc tablet I use each time plus the muslin bag I put over the racking cane. This time, I wasn't so lucky. The muslin bag got clogged up and got sucked into the plastic piece at the bottom of the racking cane several times. I just took it off and racked with no filter. I was hoping it would settle out and get sucked up in the first pull or two from the keg. Nope, at least not so far.

 

[mtnagel]

No I'm not. What was your OG?

1.061. Sorry, I just realized I didn't even use the same yeast. So not really that same. Regardless, yours should be lower than that after that long. Gently swirling the fermentor has helped me in the past when I had a stuck fermentation.

 

[Agher32]

I'm fairly certain that I'm just going to use this same grain bill for every beer that I make from now on. It's perfect. This was my second attempt at zd. But, honestly I wanted something to compliment the citra. Didn't want ALL citra. I threw some galaxy and centennial w the citra and absolutely loved the way this one turned out!