American Pale Ale Three Floyds Zombie Dust Clone

[copper2hopper]

You're gonna wish you did a five gallon batch. I did this recipe and ended up with bottling up 548 ounces of it (7 six-packs and 2 22oz bombers) after all my losses. Once it carbonated nicely in the bottle, that 548 ounces was gone in two weeks between me and my friend who helped me brew it. We'll never make that mistake again and now have two 5 gallon batches of this stuff staggered by a weeks difference in time fermenting/dry hopping in my basement. One batch I'm dry hopping now has got 3oz of Galaxy pellets and 1oz of Citra leaf. It's gonna be epic

 

[Desrever]

Ive brewed this recipe 4 times now in the past 2 years and would like to say thank you to skeezer for posting it, having had the real thing at the pub and in bottles I can say it is very close, Zombie Dust is very hard to find even living less then a couple hours drive from FFF.

 

[cinserrajr]

I just ordered the necessary ingredients and plan on brewing this clone in a few days! Thank you very much for sharing.

 

[copper2hopper]

You're gonna love it!!

 

[suprchunk]

You're gonna wish you did a five gallon batch.

I did a 5 gallon and wish I would have gone and just made a barrel. I will next time. It was similar to ZD, but not the same.

 

[wvdad]

What is on the window sill?

A ceramic pumpkin.

 

[Steve3730]

I did a 5 gallon and wish I would have gone and just made a barrel. I will next time. It was similar to ZD, but not the same.

This will definitely be my first 10 gallon batch when I make my keggle next spring

 

[Bowtiebrewery]

I took a gravity reading yesterday... Fermented at 65*F for 4 days and its at 1.018 on the dot... Took a taste test... So far so good on my end... Only small complaint is I think its lacking a little smoothness. Definitely some bitterness up front, but it smells heavenly.
I'm raising the fermentation temp to 70*F as a precautionary D-rest for the rest of this week. Sunday I'll dump off trub. Monday, I'll do another dump and then add the dry hops 6-7 days... Then its one more dump to make sure the dry hop pellets are below my top racking port, and its into the keg!

Woo hoo!

 

[copper2hopper]

Got my six gallons that I just popped the lid off on the fermenting bucket after only 12 days in primary. Started at 1.060 and now at a 1.009. That's a 6.69 ABV and 84% Attenuation. Tastes awesome. Couple questions though. Is that "over attenuated" and will it have enough yeasties left over to play with the priming sugar to bottle condition? If not then how should I fix that?

 

[Adaman05]

Got my six gallons that I just popped the lid off on the fermenting bucket after only 12 days in primary. Started at 1.060 and now at a 1.009. That's a 6.69 ABV and 84% Attenuation. Tastes awesome. Couple questions though. Is that "over attenuated" and will it have enough yeasties left over to play with the priming sugar to bottle condition? If not then how should I fix that?

You'll absolutely be fine, even if you cold crash it.

 

[olotti]

Got my six gallons that I just popped the lid off on the fermenting bucket after only 12 days in primary. Started at 1.060 and now at a 1.009. That's a 6.69 ABV and 84% Attenuation. Tastes awesome. Couple questions though. Is that "over attenuated" and will it have enough yeasties left over to play with the priming sugar to bottle condition? If not then how should I fix that?

Do not touch it. It'll b a little drier than the real zd as my clone was too at 1.010 but I actually preferred it, alows the hops to explode more in the nose and the taste. I now try to get all my ipa's down around 1.010 as I feel it really alows the hops to shine. My zd carbed in less than a week in bottle but was perfect at two weeks. Enjoy good luck keeping your hands off em my second batch should b ready Sunday hopefully.

 

[copper2hopper]

Awesome. Thanks fellas. Will secondary on Saturday with dry hops. Gotta fish out my stir bar on the bottom of the fermenter. Accidentally poured it in on brewday and need it to do a starter in Saturday for a brewday on Sunday. Whoops!

 

[milldoggy]

Awesome. Thanks fellas. Will secondary on Saturday with dry hops. Gotta fish out my stir bar on the bottom of the fermenter. Accidentally poured it in on brewday and need it to do a starter in Saturday for a brewday on Sunday. Whoops!

Use a magnet on the outside of the carboy and slide it up

 

[olotti]

Bottled my second batch 1 week ago and tried one tonight even still a little flat it was like drinking pineapple OJ, amazing and the nose was huge. Bumped it up to 7% and with the extra 2 row the color is closer to the real thing but to me that doesnt really matter its all about the taste and smell and this looks like its gonna be another awesome batch. Should be ready to go in another week. If I could do 10gal of this I would.

 

[Baldy246]

I scored a bottle of the real ZD the other day here in Columbus. The store was limiting them to 1 per customer. I was so excited. However, after drinking mine for the last month, I wasn't as impressed as I was the first time I tried it. This recipe is just amazing! Just brewed my second batch yesterday!

 

[j1n]

I brewed this 3 months ago and i have two 22oz bombers left. I just cracked one open and wow its better than i remembered. its got a nice passion fruit, cirtusy aroma going on and the taste is soooo good. the bitterness has mellowed down and you get a ton of that passion fruit taste. My wife that doesnt drink at all said it smells like straight up passion fruit juice.

 

[Mofoa]

I am still working on dialing my efficiency and was looking for something kickass to try--so I came across this thread.

Did the 6 gallon batch as noted by OP. Given the amount of hops...thought I would try and shoot for a pre-boil of 8 gallons of wort. Happy to report, I did get my 6 gallons into the bucket I was shooting for, but missed the gravity.

Was shooting for 1.065, but got 1.054 (like I said, still working on my effeciency). I also took a pre-boil reading and got 1.050?? Instead of the 11.25 of 2 row mentioned, I did round up to 12 lbs. Remaining specialty grains remained the same.

Mashed at 154/153 for 1 hour.

Followed the hop additions as noted.

I'm sure it will still come at pretty awesome, so I am happy about that. I had a taste of the pre-boil sample...nice taste..had a taste of the post-boil...wowzers...very bitter

I am looking forward to seeing how this all shakes out

Edit: Forgot to mention---15 mins left of boiling time and I ran out of propane! I moved inside the kitchen and tried not to skip a beat...I'm guessing this bump in the road may have contributed to me missing my OG as I didn't tack on extra time....lesson learned.

 

[skeezerpleezer]

If you had 8g of 1.050 preboil and 6g of 1.054 post boil then you likely measured something wrong. 8g of 1.050 should boil down to 6g of 1.067 (8g *.050 / 6g).

 

[Mofoa]

I don't doubt I measured something wrong however I did measure how much went into the kettle by first measuring in the bucket. Same thing after 60 mins. Although, there was about a quarter/half gallon of trub I left out.

I certainly did not see 1.067 on my hydrometer post boil. I have second hydrometer I have not yet used. I have been having difficulty with my of nearly all batches thus far.

BTW...I milled grain fine...with some flour...and I batch sparged at 190... Stirred let it sit a few mins and run off. I'll get there one day.

 

[jammin]

I don't doubt I measured something wrong.

the numbers don't lie so you've something outta whack. skeezer's calculations are spot on

 

[TexasWine]

Started the cold crash today. OG of 1.069, down to 1.012, for an attenuation of about 82% and ABV of 7.48%. A little higher than what I was going for, but it still tastes incredible. Really looking forward to getting this one kegged.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, did this with a 30 minute mash and 30 minute boil, no chill, no secondary. Living on the edge!

 

[Mofoa]

Agree . But the question is where??

 

[pm5k00]

Just kegged a batch based on this recipe. Tried a sample and it tasted great, aroma was intense. Mods where as follows, added 1 lbs cane sugar toward end of boil, used newport for 90 minute hops, upped the IBUs to 100+, and used BRY-97 yeast. OG 1.078, FG 1.015 ... so this is been moded into a completely different beer, but should get me in the ballpark of zombie dust flavor and aroma. Never had the original anyways, thanks to the OP and all others who contributed.

 

[LuciferSam]

Why the pound of cane sugar?


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[pm5k00]

Why the pound of cane sugar?


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To raise the OG and help dry it out. Plus 1 lbs is only 7.1% of the grist, and when I add sugar I like to keep it at 10% or less.

 

[AfroHopster]

just kegged this after 5days in the dry hop but I just dumped the hops on top and didn't stir so I didn't get the full 3oz of hops in the dry hop. oh well means I need to make this again this weekend

 

[secondbase]

Lost almost a gallon due to trub before racking to secondary to dry hop. Note to self: modify recipe to yield an extra gallon next time.

 

[copper2hopper]

Only four days into bottle conditioning. Good head. Tastes interesting as my buddy and I dry hopped with 1oz Citra leaf and 2oz Galaxy pellets. Very drinkable but like the original better

 

[MikeInMKE]

I'd taken the recipe and rounded things up, shooting for a 1.071 OG.

But I didn't brew it. I had a friend over who wanted to learn how to brew, so I had him do all the brewing. Unfortunately, he was far more gentle than I am when it came time to batch sparge, and my OG ended up at 1.062. Not bad, but a reminder that Yooper knows what she's talking about when she says to stir it like it owes you money.

 

[wmubronco]

Was intrigued when I discovered this post. The hop head I am, I enjoyed reading through some of the posts. On my trip to Chicago this past weekend, we stopped in Indiana to get some booze. Just so happened that the liquor store had a "make your own 6 pack," and they had a few bottles of ZD in the cooler. I was stoked, so grabbed 2 and after cracking them before heading out for the night, this was a really great tasting beer. I plan to brew this clone next!