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Magic Hat #9 ideas

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#1

My wife loves #9, me not so much. I thought about brewing an extract that tastes something like but not necessarily exactly the same. Looks like some extract a little crystal malt and not much hops from the recipes I found. Some kind of neutral yeast, I have Kveik that works well for the climate here.

The question is the apricot flavor. A long time ago I tried apricot flavoring. It was awful. Had a chemical taste. The recipes I found call for one 3lb can of puree for 5 gallons in secondary. Apricots have a subtle flavor I find so that doesn’t sound like enough. Fresh ones are not available here so that is out.

Ideas?

Fruit Beer. Wheat or Ale?
#2

I think it’s supposed to taste awful

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#3

#9 or the apricot flavoring?

#4

9 I’m sorry but I can’t drink that stuf

#5

I’m no fan either but she likes it. Kind of hoped I could brew something better.

#6

Probably could find a brand of apricot flavoring that tastes better. I think that would work. I don’t think magic hat is adding fruit

#7

Maybe play with dried apricots

#8

I don’t even remember what #9 tastes like (I know I didn’t like it), but I do remember the Dry Dock Apricot Blonde kit behind very tasty.

#9

@hd4mark I’ll look thru my notes but I remember brewing this clone as 1 of my first brews. For some reason, I thought I was tough $h!t whenever I ordered a #9 back in the day. Lol. I may have to revisit my old flame now that were talking about it.

#10

I also made a clone for this as my 2nd extract beer ever. I remember having to buy a 20$ extract can of apricot puree. Used safale 05. Was decent. But then again that was 6 years ago and almost no palate

#11

I would echo the Dry Dock Apricot kit. I make it at least once a year. Very good, very subtle.

#12

Had a #9 a long time ago. Don’t remember hating it but I don’t think I had a second…

Mosaic and galaxy hops throw a kind of stonefruit flavor if you wanted to try and get the fruitiness from hops. I did an IPA recently with them. Bittered with magnum for 29 IBU, 1/2 oz each of mosaic and galaxy at FWH, 5mins, 2mins, Whirlpool 20 mins at 170 and 1oz ea for 5 days DH room temp. This was a 1.063 OG beer that ended at 6.8 ABV according to BS2.

You could probably bitter it less and get a super fruity pale ale. It was lots of stonefruit and tangerine flavor and great aroma. I’ll probably double the DH next time.

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#13

Do a simple American wheat- 5 lb 2 row, 4lb wheat malt, 1lb flaked oats. Hop to about 20 IBUs with a noble hop. At packaging time, add the LD Carlson Apricot extract, 1 oz. per gallon. Result= light apricot flavor, really quite tasty. It did earn a 1st place in a competition last year (can’t remember which one). The LD Carlson Apricot extract is the only extract that I’ve found to actually be OK.

#14

This is an old post that came up in the past

#15

I fell off my barstool…:joy:

#16

I’m sure you can. Are there any hop combinations that can push it toward that flavor. We make grapefruit tasting beer without grapefruit so perhaps something apricotish?

#17

05 will throw some stone fruit when used at the low end of its range-around 58-60*

Cheers,

Ron

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#18

@jimrmaine is right on target with what my recipe looked like.

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