Two Hearted Ale

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Bell’s Two Hearted is my better half’s favorite in the whole wide. Anyone have a close recipe to narrow down my options, and get me in the ballpark?

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Available Extract as well

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LOL easy enough…thanks for pointin out what should have been obvious.

Cheers!! :cheers:

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any thoughts about this not being hoppy enough for a 12lb beer? i’d think you’d at least need to have 4 oz of dry hop and 4 oz at the 5 min addition:

0.75 oz. Centennial (60 min)
1 oz. Centennial (20 min)
2 oz. Centennial (5 min)
DRY HOPS
1 oz. Centennial – add to secondary fermenter
one to two weeks before bottling day

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[quote=“baileyjoe”]any thoughts about this not being hoppy enough for a 12lb beer? i’d think you’d at least need to have 4 oz of dry hop and 4 oz at the 5 min addition[/quote]Not sure what you mean by “a 12lb beer”, NB’s kit is for a 5 gallon batch. This is a solid recipe, I’m sure the OP’s wife would like it, he can always tweak it on future batches.

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Dead ringer kit

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[quote=“The Fhunt”]Bell’s Two Hearted is my better half’s favorite in the whole wide. Anyone have a close recipe to narrow down my options, and get me in the ballpark?[/quote]I keep mine on tap almost all the time and am told it is even better than Bell’s THA. Here it is for 20+ gallons:

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Greg is the last hop addition at flame out or dry hop?

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[quote=“sonex”]Greg is the last hop addition at flame out or dry hop?[/quote]in the notes I put dry hop but that’s 3 years ago. Now I do both.

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so 4 oz at flame out and dry hop got it. I was going to brew your recipe and compare to mine. Mine and yours are both pretty close to each other.

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I’ll check the current recipe and see if it differs and report back.

EDIT: Tweaked slightly over the years to end up with 7.0% abv and 54 IBU.

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just for comparison on how close our recipes are heres mine.

batch size 12 gal
og 1.068
eff. 75%

grain bill

pale malt 80%
vienna 13%
crystal 4%
carapils 3%

hop sch.
cent 2 oz @60
cent 1 oz @30
cent 1 oz @20
cent 1 oz @15
cent 1 oz @5
cent 1 oz @1
cent 1oz @dry hop

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I put a little more c-malt in mine, though I’ve never had Two Hearted Ale, they don’t sell it around here:

5.5 Gallons
12 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)
1 lbs Caramunich
1.00 oz Centennial [8.00 %] - First Wort 60.0 min Hop 4 22.8 IBUs
8 oz Sugar, Table (Sucrose) (1.0 SRM) Sugar 5 8.5 %
1.00 oz Centennial [8.00 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 6 15.9 IBUs
1.00 oz Centennial [8.00 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 7 12.5 IBUs
1.00 oz Centennial [8.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 8 7.5 IBUs
1.00 oz Centennial [8.00 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 9 4.1 IBUs
1.5 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) [50.28 ml] Yeast 10 -
1.00 oz Centennial [8.00 %] - Dry Hop 10.0 Days Hop 11 0.0 IBUs

This was a brew I made for a buddy of mine’s birthday last year who likes IPAs, there were a lot of BMC drinkers who loved it, in fact a guy last night asked me if I still brew that kind of beer, I told him, “all the time”.

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Greg, do you really get a FG of 1.02? That seems high.

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[quote=“560sdl”]Greg, do you really get a FG of 1.02? That seems high.[/quote]Not really. That is the predicted FG. I’d say 1.014 is my normal FG. I’ve had t it happen where the abv comes close to 8%

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Thanks for all the feed back…I’m thinking that this will be an awesome suprise when I break this one out. Hope I can keep it that way, she’s starting to show interst on brew days. :shock: A little bending of the truth might be in order.