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Green Flash West Coast IPA clone
Green Flash West Coast IPA clone
I have to start out by saying that this is one of my favorite beers! If you live in a state where Green Flash hasn't become available yet... sorry man! -Hopefully soon.
I actually started homebrewing to be able to clone this beer. After a few failed attempts, I got the recipe. Thank you lord! I know Chuck was very hush hush about this recipe for along time, and when Jamil's brewing network came to him and did the segment 'can you brew it?', you could tell he was hesitant about all the information being released. You can catch that audio over at the brewing network.
My main objective for this beer was to capture the unique hop flavors, but create a session beer. The distributed version comes in at 7.2%, but that makes it a bit hard to session with. Well my first attempt came in a little high, getting better efficiency than expected, I got a 6.4%... when I was looking for something like 5.5%.
As far as taste goes, I think I hit it pretty close... we'll see how the next batch comes out.
This is the recipe I used.
OG 1.062
FG 1.014
ABV 6.4%
8lb 2-Row
2lb Marris Otter
1lb Crystal 40
.50oz simcoe 90min
.25oz simcoe 60min
.25oz columbus 60min
.25oz simcoe 30min
.25oz columbus 30min
.50oz simcoe 15min
.50oz columbus 15min
1.0oz cascade 10min
.50oz simcoe 1min
.50oz columbus 1min
dryhop
.50oz amarillo
.50oz centenial
.50oz columbus
.50oz simcoe
.50oz cascade
White Labs WLP001 California Ale yeast
152F mash temp
72F primary ferment
note: The original recipe calls for 8% each of carastan 3037 and carapils.
I caught this CYBI podcast and already entered the recipe into Beersmith. Green Flash is a damn good beer! I frequent a bar that has it on tap often. I already have an IPA on deck but hopefully I'll get a chance to brew this up soon.
FirePitBrew wrote:
Green Flash is a damn good beer!
I have to agree!
It's to bad they stopped making the nut brown, cause it was real good too. And if you like reds, their hop head red is very good. I'm lucky enough to work only 5 minutes from the brewery, but since they started charging $1.50 for 7oz tasters I stopped going.
If you plan on brewing this clone, I would suggest buying your hops in bulk -since there is so many additions.
I'm actually brewing this beer again tonight, but changing up the grain bill to add some Munich. Should be interesting.
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