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...
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Not being that big a fan of hop-forward beers, I have never brewed a Double IPA before. As with the Pale Ale I made yesterday, I wanted to take another shot at using the hopping knowledge imparted at HomeBrewCon along with some of the leftover Kveik yeast from the Pale Ale to produce a Double IPA. The recipe below is based on a combination of a gold-medal winning recipe from the AHA web site, the items I had on hand, and the Lallemand Voss Kveik yeast left over from the batch yesterday. Ingredients 9 pounds Weyerman Pilsner Malt 2.25 pounds Viking Pale Ale Malt 1.5 pounds Flaked Oats 4 ounces Honey Malt 1 16-ounce can of Lyle's Golden Syrup 8 ounces Vienna Malt 0.75 ounces Summit hops pellets @ 17.5% AA (60 min.) 1 ounce El Dorado hops pellets @ 12.8% AA (10 min.) 1 ounce Southern Passion hops pellets @ 12.0% AA (10 min.) 1 ounce Citra hops pellets @ 12.6% AA (whirlpool 20 min.) 1 ounce Mandarina Bavaria hops pellets @ 10.1% AA (whirlpool 20 min.) 1 ounce Citra hops pellets @ 12.8...