SN Torpedo Clone

Beer Recipe Design
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Hey, I was just looking for some feedback on this, it’s what I came up with after looking at various sources for AG recipes:

Boil Size : 23ltrs
Batch : 20ltrs

O.G 1.069
F.G 1.017
ABV 6.89%
IBU 72.09

Fermentable:
4.45KG LME

Grain:
0.45 KG Crystal 60L
0.225 KG CaraPils

Boil:
2 oz Magnum(10.7 AA) @ 60min
1 oz Hallertauer Mittelfruh (3.0 AA) @ 5min (Swapped for Crystal as my supplier has none)
1 oz Citra(14.5 AA) @ 5min

Dry Hop:
0.67 oz Magnum Dry Hop (10 days)
0.67 oz Hallertau Mittelfruh (10 days)
0.67 oz Citra Dry Hop (10 days)

Yeast:
US-05

Would appreciate any comments or opinions, I’m still pretty new to extract brewing!

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Fermentables look reasonable, but those hops seem borderline bizarre.

Quick question: why are you doing volume/fermentable weight in Metric then hops in English? Just curious, but I guess to each their own. Its actually more precise to use grams for hop additions anyway.

Now on to my hop questions: Seems like a ton of bittering hops. Torpedo is a great beer, with layered hop aroma/flavor. I would think it would have a smaller bittering charge and way more late hops.

Also, not sure of the practical effects of dry hopping with Magnum. Not saying I wouldn’t do it or its wrong, I just haven’t seen it and I’m not sure what they would do for you. Magnum are a pretty clean bittering hop. Kind of like the ‘salt in the stew’ for a lot of IPA/IIPAs :mrgreen:

Did you search other forums for this recipe? I have to believe there is a decent clone out there.

Good luck, its a great beer, and I hope you come close or better yet, nail it!

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By the way, if you’re going to go there with your Profile name, you clearly need to upload a pic from SelleckWaterfallSandwich as your avatar. Please update at your earliest convenience.

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[quote=“Pietro”]Fermentables look reasonable, but those hops seem borderline bizarre.

Quick question: why are you doing volume/fermentable weight in Metric then hops in English? Just curious, but I guess to each their own. Its actually more precise to use grams for hop additions anyway.

Now on to my hop questions: Seems like a ton of bittering hops. Torpedo is a great beer, with layered hop aroma/flavor. I would think it would have a smaller bittering charge and way more late hops.

Also, not sure of the practical effects of dry hopping with Magnum. Not saying I wouldn’t do it or its wrong, I just haven’t seen it and I’m not sure what they would do for you. Magnum are a pretty clean bittering hop. Kind of like the ‘salt in the stew’ for a lot of IPA/IIPAs :mrgreen:

Did you search other forums for this recipe? I have to believe there is a decent clone out there.

Good luck, its a great beer, and I hope you come close or better yet, nail it![/quote]

Most of the recipes on the web have hop additions listed in imperial units (grr), I just write them that way out of habit.

In some recipes I found, they used less Magnum for bittering, but when I threw the amounts into a calculator, the IBU always seemed to fall a bit short of 65/70. I added more just to bump the IBU up - wrong move?

All the recipes I’ve seen seem to have 0.67 oz of magnum, citra and crystal for dry hopping so it’s monkey see - monkey do as far as that goes.

Just a couple of the recipes I’ve seen can be found

,
http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13902&start=30#wrapheader
and
http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13902&start=22

As for my avatar - I may do but it doesn’t sound too sfw for googling :stuck_out_tongue:

Cheers for the advice!

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remember, calculated IBU’s are different than perceived IBU’s. I would try to get your (calculated) number higher with bigger late additions and a small(ish) Magnum addition @ 60 minutes. I’d be curious as to your results with DH’ing magnums as well.

SelleckWaterfallSandwich is SFW, just simply ridiculous. And awesome.

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The bittering hop amount doesn’t scare me. Its the relatively small late additions I think you should work on. Torpedo is a tremendously hoppy beer and I don’t think an ounce of halleratau and an ounce of citra are going to get you there. I would add that same amount again at flameout and maybe consider doubling it.