American Pale Ale Three Floyds Zombie Dust Clone

[skeezerpleezer]

you know, i didnt take.... :\ probably should have, meant to.

It can be helpful. If you know it, then you can calculate how much you need to boil off to get to your desired gravity. Or how much DME to add to keep your desired volume and still hit gravity

 

[ruascott]

Brewed yesterday this grain bill. Changed up the hops as didn't have any Citra in yet. Figured I'd try Falconer's Flight.

1oz Magnum 60m
1 oz FF 10m
5 oz FF 175* 30m hopstand

Dry hop 3 oz FF

Did BIAB and hit SG right on the money. Pitched US-04.

Looking forward to the end result.

 

[BlackWraith]

Brewed this up back in December. Though the recipe I was on beersmith. Just subtle differences in the grain %. Wow is all I have to say. Probably one of the best pale ales I have ever had. Definitely on my brew again list. If the real stuff is as good or better I can understand the accolations it has received.

IMG_20160126_185822 by BlkWraith, on Flickr

 

[copper2hopper]

Wow that's crystal clear BlackWraith. Looks great! Tonight is legging night of my 12 gallon split batch with this recipe using Funktown Pale Ale yeast and DIPA. It's been dry hopping for 6 days now on 3oz of Citra in each fermentor. Saturday night will be my first pouring from the taps after carbing them up. Can't wait for the side by sides of these two. Both smell freaking amazing and are coming in at 7% ABV.

 

[BlackWraith]

Nice copper! Hope it turns out well. It is a great recipe. I'm actually shocked at how clear some if the beers are turning out. This is only my 6th batch!

 

[brew703]

Cant wait until mine is done.

 

[joyceman]

Are people dropping the FWH hopping on this and moving to whirlpool additions?

Im going to do a batch this weekend with no FWH, no bittering, 1.25oz at 20, 10 & 5 with a 1.25oz whirlpoool. I might lose some IBUs, but I can live with that.

 

[ctufano]

i was going to... but i didnt get my hopshot because northern sucks... so, i ended up doing the whole boil. i skipped the first wort hop though. and managed to screw up my hop times lol. used beersmith timer for first time ever, probably be my last as well. back to the old school method of setting smaller timers. dry hopping mine next week.

 

[ctufano]

actually, i just realized i misread the dry hop. thought it meant dry hop AFTER 10 days. guess im pitching some hops this evening when i get home lol

 

[Laserrs]

On page 117 of this thread so apologies if this has been repeatedly covered.

This will be my first PM attempt and given the cost of the ingredients want to make sure I have a solid plan. That said here it goes:

2.5lb grain bill per recipe
3.125 gallons of strike water at 167-168f, insert grains
Mash at 150f for 60min
Remove grains to strainer, add 3/4oz Citra FWH
Sparge grains with 160f water to reach boil volume of 6gal, take gravity reading
Toss grains and bring to boil
15min left 1oz Citra, add 6lbs DME Briess Golden Light
10min 1oz Citra
5min 1oz Citra
1min 1oz Citra
Cool wort to 64f, take gravity reading
Pitch 1 packet S-04 rehydrated with sanitized water
Fermenter into swamp cooler 7-10 days, take reading
Transfer to secondary, dry hop 3oz Citra 7 days
Keg, cold crash, enjoy.

Missing anything? Result in 5gal of brew or up the boil volume?

 

[Laserrs]

Brewing Sunday, anyone please confirm the above looks good to go?

 

[MMJfan]

Brewing Sunday, anyone please confirm the above looks good to go?

Looks good to me.

Although, you don't really need to transfer to a secondary. I just keep my brews in the fermenting bucket until I'm ready to rack to my bottling bucket.

 

[k1ngl1ves]

Ugh. Today was my turn to pick up beer for the group. Bottled today (1-29), so I can't really complain...



At $40 a case, it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper to homebrew btw, but I'm lazy.





Edit: And it's upside down for some reason. Figures.

 

[Laserrs]

Nice. Scored some Yum Yum today in NKY $12.99/6. Brewing my ZD on Sunday and realized I have no bag to biaB! Hope to make it bye Home Depot for a paint strainer.

 

[Lazer Wolf Brewing]

Ugh. Today was my turn to pick up beer for the group. Bottled today (1-29), so I can't really complain...



At $40 a case, it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper to homebrew btw, but I'm lazy.





Edit: And it's upside down for some reason. Figures.

I bought a couple cases of Pliny recently...$55 for twelve 17oz. bottles...I would WAY rather have 24 ZDs for $40!!!

 

[k1ngl1ves]

I bought a couple cases of Pliny recently...$55 for twelve 17oz. bottles...I would WAY rather have 24 ZDs for $40!!!

And I would WAY rather trade you some ZD for some Pliny! What say you?!!!

but worth it!


PM me, and let's do this! Lol!

 

[ruascott]

Ugh. Today was my turn to pick up beer for the group. Bottled today (1-29), so I can't really complain...



At $40 a case, it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper to homebrew btw, but I'm lazy.





Edit: And it's upside down for some reason. Figures.

How long did you have to wait in line?

 

[k1ngl1ves]

How long did you have to wait in line?

I didn't. I was eating lunch when they decided to start selling ZD. Lucky. I left a little after 2pm, and the line was still small.


Their food is really good. Highly recommended.

 

[Lazer Wolf Brewing]

Looking for some advice on this brew. I am new to brewing and brewed this as my first AG batch. Used WLP002 and fermented at 68*. Did a small FWH and the rest were large flameout and hop stands at 170.

To me, the beer sort of tastes like citrus flavored flinstone vitamins, or maybe lemon lime emergen-c? My friends are saying it doesn't taste "bad" but no one is that stoked on it. I know my description is kind of vague, but let me know if there is an obvious cause of this vitamin c taste I'm getting. Thanks!

 

[TallDan]

Looking for some advice on this brew. I am new to brewing and brewed this as my first AG batch. Used WLP002 and fermented at 68*. Did a small FWH and the rest were large flameout and hop stands at 170.

To me, the beer sort of tastes like citrus flavored flinstone vitamins, or maybe lemon lime emergen-c? My friends are saying it doesn't taste "bad" but no one is that stoked on it. I know my description is kind of vague, but let me know if there is an obvious cause of this vitamin c taste I'm getting. Thanks!

So, using a completely different hop schedule makes a difference, huh?

 

[alexacuna]

Gonna do this one the Black Butte Porter clone.

 

[copper2hopper]

Ferm temp of 68 is that yeasts highest recommended temp although it's a slim range of 65-68. I typically like to peg my ferm chamber at 64ish for this brew regardless of yeast. So that coulda been a factor. I also always use RO water and build up my own water profile using Brun water calculator. So that could also be a factor in off flavors. Nonetheless ITS HOME BREW! Cheers

 

[Adaman05]

Looking for some advice on this brew. I am new to brewing and brewed this as my first AG batch. Used WLP002 and fermented at 68*. Did a small FWH and the rest were large flameout and hop stands at 170.

To me, the beer sort of tastes like citrus flavored flinstone vitamins, or maybe lemon lime emergen-c? My friends are saying it doesn't taste "bad" but no one is that stoked on it. I know my description is kind of vague, but let me know if there is an obvious cause of this vitamin c taste I'm getting. Thanks!

Was 68F the ambient temperature of the room or was it the temperature of the beer? Regardless, 68 is on the upper end of the spectrum and higher than I would use for an English yeast. Probably esters.

 

[Lazer Wolf Brewing]

It was beer temp. The package said 65-70 range on it so that's why I went with 68. I guess I'll have to tlferment cooler and see what happens. Thanks guys

 

[Laserrs]

Pm version, hit 1.012 preboil after sparging up to 6gal boil volume. Good or bad? Do I need to adjust my 6lb DME?

 

[Laserrs]

What's life without its challenges? My big helper spilled DME (1/4 cup not much) on the stove and he also missed the hop bag once lol. Neither are serious, used the heat and water to clean DME quickly and the hop pellet sediment should settle out. Solid memories and notes though. Finished at 1.063 with 5.5gal into fermenter so overall I'm pleased. Will report back in a week with results of primary.

Edit: temp correct reading 1.064 so darn close!

 

[TxBigHops]

Looking for some advice on this brew. I am new to brewing and brewed this as my first AG batch. Used WLP002 and fermented at 68*. Did a small FWH and the rest were large flameout and hop stands at 170.

To me, the beer sort of tastes like citrus flavored flinstone vitamins, or maybe lemon lime emergen-c? My friends are saying it doesn't taste "bad" but no one is that stoked on it. I know my description is kind of vague, but let me know if there is an obvious cause of this vitamin c taste I'm getting. Thanks!

So just to be clear, you put NO hops in the boil between FWH and flameout? So in effect, you have a few IBUs from the FWH (you didn't say how much small was) and maybe a few from flameout. I'm thinking that's your problem. Virtually no IBUs. Just intense hop flavors and aromas. Alcoholic
citra kool-aid.

 

[theLDP]

If you use like 3/4 oz of Columbus or similar FWH. Then all at direct flameout you will get smooth bitterness. It will be there.

 

[Lazer Wolf Brewing]

Yeah that's what I did. After reading through this thread and some others, it seems like a lot of people are doing in-your-face hoppy beers like that now. I brewed up another batch and added a 15 minute addition to get some more IBUs, so we will see how that turns out.

 

[Laserrs]

Had healthy activity in airlock yesterday but by no means violent like some have reported. Swamp cooler still at 63F. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled my airlock hasn't rocketed through the air nor Kraussen exited through it. Just curious why some are so violent and some so normal.