American Pale Ale Three Floyds Zombie Dust Clone

[JFMBearcat]

Thanks for the recipe. Why by chance is Wyeast 1968 used? I looked up the details and it doesn't describe anything IPA like to me, and the styles listed weren't APA or IPA either.

Thanks,

 

[skeezerpleezer]

Thanks for the recipe. Why by chance is Wyeast 1968 used? I looked up the details and it doesn't describe anything IPA like to me, and the styles listed weren't APA or IPA either.

Thanks,

A lot of breweries use the English strain as house yeast (three Floyd's, Firestone walker to name a couple).

 

[JFMBearcat]

A lot of breweries use the English strain as house yeast (three Floyd's, Firestone walker to name a couple).

Ah ok. Well that's what I bought so I'll be brewing this up tomorrow most likely. Thanks for the recipe.

 

[ddicker60]

Yes 002 is great for this beer, I believe it's what 3F uses, or something close at least. I mashed at about 150 and that worked well for me, could go lower even if you want it a little dryer.

On Hopville is says attentuation is 67% Is this true? I would think it would be at least in the seventies. Thanks for the info!

 

[skeezerpleezer]

On Hopville is says attentuation is 67% Is this true? I would think it would be at least in the seventies. Thanks for the info!

I have hit in the 80%s with 002, it all about mash temp, yeast quality/quantity, and oxygen.

 

[NathPowe]

Racked this to a keg last night with the dry hops. Smells great and the flat gravity sample was tasty. Finished at 1.015, so about 6%. A little off, but I'm not complaining. Should be drinking in a couple weeks. I don't expect this one to last more than a long weekend.

 

[ddicker60]

I have hit in the 80%s with 002, it all about mash temp, yeast quality/quantity, and oxygen.

Sounds good, my dad and I are fine tuning our yeast propagation procedure.


Hopefully it's as good as people say, we are having a family reunion and this is going be what we are drinking that weekend

 

[Chavi]

I apologize if this has been answered already, but when it comes to dryhopping, do you dryhop in the primary or rack and then dryhop? Also, is it better to dryhop for 10 days or 7? Thanks!

 

[TrickyDick]

The pros try to dry hop just before end of fermentation to reduce oxygenation while yeast is still active, as introducing dry hops will also introduce oxygen. At least that is my understanding. It is also my understanding that for me at least, on a homebrew level, that fermentation 5gallons is usually complete in 4-5 days, but I am always too busy during work week to check the daily gravity readings. This practice has lead me to check at the end of a week and say wow! It's done! But I secondary/condition for a few more weeks, with the notion that yeast is still doing other things to the wort/beer but not primary fermentation any longer. This would lead me to believe if a pro was homebrewing that they would add at four days and try to be sure that they purge oxygen out of hops as much as possible (which I don't think is really possible at all unless you racked into a purged keg..).

But, what I do is rack during secondary conditioning or during kegging, or both. I will try to do it at four days one of these times. I suppose that you would need to ensure that at four days, your primary fermentation wasn't going along at a furious pace, or you might not be at tail end of fermentation after all, so I would take my advice with that grain of salt if you will.

Time is also variable. Some say they get astringent favors after more than 5 days, but I've left the hop sack in for a month or longer without ill effect, when I've added to the keg. I believe the Pliny beer gets dry hopped twice, and once for like 10-14 days then again for 5-7 I think.

TD

 

[stonebrewer]

Dry hopping in the keg is my prefered way to reduce oxygenation. I connect the gas to the out side and bubble up CO2 to push out the nasty O2, and then seal with pressure, using the relief valve to purge any remaining O2.

When doing a beer that requires multiple dry hopping, I think it is best to leave the old hops in. Too many things, in my mind, can go wrong pulling things out of your beer and putting thing back in. YMMV.

 

[TrickyDick]

Dry hopping in the keg is my prefered way to reduce oxygenation. I connect the gas to the out side and bubble up CO2 to push out the nasty O2, and then seal with pressure, using the relief valve to purge any remaining O2.

When doing a beer that requires multiple dry hopping, I think it is best to leave the old hops in. Too many things, in my mind, can go wrong pulling things out of your beer and putting thing back in. YMMV.

I agree with that. A friend of mine who is getting into brewing and really fanatical at this point was asking, how do I remove the hop sack from my keg after 5 days. I told him I didn't know cause I had never done it! Well I suppose that there might be a better way, but this has always been fine for me.

 

[beejayud]

Made this back in march following all the original ingredients and instructions.... i kegged 2 gallon and bottled the rest. Og was 1.061 and fg was 1.010.. i used safale 04. Color hop character and feel from kegged beer was on, but yeast strain seemed off. Zombie dust had a more slightly different more english taste to me. The bottled beer after three weeks is closer but just a bit off still. Still a great beer and one of my favorite to date. im going to tweek a bit and try with safale 05 since i have already.

 

[TrickyDick]

Made this back in march following all the original ingredients and instructions.... i kegged 2 gallon and bottled the rest. Og was 1.061 and fg was 1.010.. i used safale 04. Color hop character and feel from kegged beer was on, but yeast strain seemed off. Zombie dust had a more slightly different more english taste to me. The bottled beer after three weeks is closer but just a bit off still. Still a great beer and one of my favorite to date. im going to tweek a bit and try with safale 05 since i have already.

Is that one of those new DFH/SN IPA glasses?

 

[beejayud]

Sure is, i'm not sold on them yet....
Makes the beer slightly more carbonated, but can't tell if thats good or bad yet... i still enjoy a nice pint glass.

 

[stonebrewer]

Just pitched on 11 gallons of Zombie Dust. Long day as I was using some new equipment and had issues...go figure! In the end, all turned out pretty well. Overshot my numbers a little, with my PBG being +6 and my SG being +5. First time I have done a 60 minute boil (usually do 90's) so the day went a little quicker, though I did run into some issues I had to contend with, mostly self inflicted. I used mostly leaf hops in the boil and man it smelled awesome!! Going to use a keg hopper for the dry hop phase...another new toy. I am going to do one keg with Citra and the other with Mosaic. Should be some tasty brew! May post a few pix later. Cheers!

 

[roger617]

Just brewed 5 gallons of this yesterday Mashed a couple degrees low, still managed OG of 1.074. I went with S-04, and man is it fermenting away! Can't wait to try it!

 

[heywatchthis]

Just kegged mine...this is easily the best beer I've ever brewed. I've been working on the water treatment aspect of my hoppy beers, and this one is as close to perfect as I've ever been.

Prost for honing this one in.

 

[Chavi]

Just kegged mine...this is easily the best beer I've ever brewed. I've been working on the water treatment aspect of my hoppy beers, and this one is as close to perfect as I've ever been.

Prost for honing this one in.

I kegged mine last night and tasted it.... it is probably the best beer I have ever made as well. I'll take a picture on Tuesday when it is fully carbonated.

 

[roger617]

I kegged mine last night and tasted it.... it is probably the best beer I have ever made as well. I'll take a picture on Tuesday when it is fully carbonated.

Lets see that pic! I'm transferring my tomorrow for dry hopping, curious to see how others have turned out!

 

[Ailstock]

Just brewed this yesterday using white labs 002. Also added an extra 1.25oz of citra at wirlpool around 170 degrees. Excited to see how it turns out.

 

[NathPowe]

Been drinking mine out of the keg for a week now. It's absolutely delicious. Probably my best beer yet as well. I'd post a pic but I don't have a way to host the file. This recipe is fantastic. If you're considering it, just make it. I took some over to the LHBS and they were way into it as well. Really glad I have enough Citra on hand to make it again. Thanks to skeezer for the recipe.

Mighty fine.

 

[Chavi]

Lets see that pic! I'm transferring my tomorrow for dry hopping, curious to see how others have turned out!

I promise I will take a pic when I get home from work!

 

[REJ]

Dry hopped this yesterday. Those of you who have finished it, does the dry hopping of 3 oz. add a lot more "character" to this recipe? I hope so. My tasting sample was rather mediocre. Notthat it was bad, but it's not over the top either. After dry hopping the Zombie Dust, I added the 4th addition of dry hops to my Pliny the Younger, and it made me think from now on I just need to fill my 4 taps with 2 PTE's and 2 PTY's, because with those two, that's all people will drink anyhow. My sampling of the PTY thus far is probably easily the best beer I have tasted...ever. And that is with 3/4 dry hop additions, flat and room temperature.

 

[Chavi]

Yes, the dry hopping really puts the ZD over the top. I dry hopped mine for 8 days and it was perfect.

 

[REJ]

That's great news. Thanks Chavi. The one thing I will say is the aroma was incredible. I thought I was going to have a stellar rotation on the taps, and I was starting to worry. My Jai Alai clone...don't know what went wrong. It is a good beer, just not great. IMO, it is certainly not a clone of the real thing. I need to do some work on that one. My Stone Sublimely Self Righteous BIPA is stellar, but is more than half gone already. The PTY will be incredible, and then I was worried during yesterday's sampling that this one will be just average as well. So, I was hoping that 3 oz. of dry hops would take it over the top so I have at least 3 REAL good beers out of 4 on tap.

 

[schweitzer22]

Making this soon can't wait!

 

[roger617]

Just transferred mine to secondary to dry hop. Smelled great already, can't wait to try the final product!

 

[Fordzilla]

Anyone done this with US-05? It's what I have on hand.

 

[TrickyDick]

Anyone done this with US-05? It's what I have on hand.

I am brewing this next week. 11Gal. I was going to use pacman yeast slurry about 4 weeks old, but am thinking instead using a combo of s04&s05 safale dry yeast packs. Not exactly what you asked I suppose. Nice avatar BTW. Raptor?

TD

 

[Fordzilla]

Sure is! It's an awesome truck. I've driven one once. Unfortunately I couldnt quite spring for the raptor so I drive a black 2011 F150. A man can dream, though.