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I've heard a lot of people rave about The Alchemist Brewing's Heady Topper DIPA, but I've never had the opportunity to actually try the beer.  In cases like this, I tend to default to locating the actual recipe or a generally-recognized good clone recipe and brewing that.  I've had to adjust this recipe because I didn't have as much Amarillo hops as I thought I did - and went for Mandarina Bavaria as a substitute.  Otherwise this is the recipe I found. Ingredients 7.25 pounds 2-row Brewer's Malt 12 ounces cane sugar (added during boil, 60 min.) 9 ounces Briess White Wheat Malt 6 ounces Baird's Carastan Malt 4-6 ounces of Rice Hulls (3-4 large handfuls) 3 gallons RO mash water, treated with 7.6 grams Gypsum, 2.2g Epsom Salt, 0.9g Calcium Chloride, 0.8g Magnesium Chloride, 0.2g Baking Soda, 0.2g  Canning Salt 1.9 gallons RO sparge water, untreated 0.6 ounces Magnum hops @ 12% AA (60 min.) 1 ounce Amarillo hops (5 min.) 1 ounce Apollo hops (5 min.) i ounce Cent...

Centennial Blonde Ale 1.0 Some time ago, when searching for some good recipes, I found a Centennial Blonde Ale recipe that had been voted the top recipe by visitors to HomeBrewTalk.com. I've wanted to brew it for a while, and finally got around to doing it today. Ingredients 3 pounds 2-row Pale Ale Malt 5 ounces Cara-Pils/Dextrine Malt 3.5 ounces Caramel/Crystal 10L Malt 3.5 ounces Swaen Vienna Malt 0.10 ounces Centennial hops pellets @ 10.8% AA (55 min.) 0.15 ounces Centennial hops pellets @ 10.8% AA (35 min.) 0.15 ounces Cascade hops pellets @ 6.9% AA (20 min.) 0.15 ounces Cascade hops pellets @ 6.9% AA (5 min.) 1/2 vial White Labs Clarity Ferm 1 packet Lallemand Nottingham Ale Yeast 3 gallons of starting water in keg For a mash schedule, I've modified the High-Efficiency Mash Schedule in the Zymatic Recipe Crafter to hold the mash at 150F for 90 minutes, followed by 30 minutes at 154F, leaving the rest the same. Boil schedule will be: 60 minutes:   N...