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Recipe:
11 gallon
Grain:
22# GW 2-Row
3.2# GW Munich
1.6# Carahell
Hops:
2oz Summit @60m
1oz Summit @30m
2oz Cascade @5m
2oz Crystal @1m
Dry Hops:
2oz Crystal for 7 days
2oz Cascade for 7 days
Yeast:
Wyeast 1056 Slurry
Notes:
The mash stuck, which caused a long delay. I was on pace to finish in about 4 hours, but that screwed me up and I ended up taking about 5 1/2 hours. Oh well, hopefully this turns out ok. Gravity came in at 1.065 (target was 1.067).
Update 1/27/12: Racked one of the five gallon buckets to secondary and added 1oz of Crystal and 1oz of Cascade hops. Taste was super good. This is going to be close, I can't wait to compare it to Ninkasi's version. FG was 1.015.
Update 2/3/12: Got the first bucket kegged and the second one got racked to secondary today. Oh man, this is really good. Good citrus hop flavor, great flavor, oh man...this is good. I'll try to do a side by side in a week or so.
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Aroma: I preferred my version, but similar. I think I had more aroma due to more dry-hops.
Clarity: Close, but Ninkasi's was clearer (probably due to a filtering system), but the body color was pretty close.
Taste: Very, very similar. My version had a little more hop flavor, but they were really close.
Overall: I can honestly say that this is a very close clone. The flavor and aroma was very close. I preferred my version, probably due to the larger amount of dry-hops I probably used compared to a commercial brewery. Basically, I'm betting this is probably one of the closest clone recipes for this beer on the internet (I didn't find much when I searched it before making it). So brew up and let me know what you think!
Are you using Cascade hops in place of Amarillo hops? They list on their site what ingredients they use and I noticed the difference. They are similar hops, but maybe that made for the slight taste difference. http://www.ninkasibrewing.com/beers/total_domination
ReplyDeleteYour recipe looks to be better than the one I found on the Hopville site. Can't wait to try out your recipe with Amarillo hops in place. I used 2oz/5gallon batch of hops for the dry hopping and loved the aroma, but I used centennial and amarillo. I will see how the crystal works out.
Thanks for the posting
I also heard a rumor around Eugene that they use the London ESB 1968 yeast. I didn't get the same ending gravity reading as they list on their site though. Slightly less agressive yeast that leaves more sweet tones.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I have a ton of Cascade Hops that are 10.2%, so I've been substituting them for Amarillo since Amarillo is so expensive right now. I did just finish and tap the Tircerahops with the Amarillo and that one turned out really good. Let me know how it goes with the Amarillo hops.
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