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Red Hook Winter Hook Clone???
Does anybody have an extract recipe for a clone of Red Hook's Winter Hook Ale?
Winter Hook is a fairly complex grain bill and hop schedule. I know it has 8 or 9 malts and I think 5 hops additions, or charges as they call them. I don't know if you could find an extract combination that would give you a close enough match. You could try though, that's the fun of homebrewing. I do know they use a good amount of crystal and chocolate malts....
Not Winter Hook but I have recipes for their ESB and Black Hook if you're interested.
I've got one for the 2002 version of Winterhook (they reportedly tweak the recipe yearly) but while it was close it was not as thoroughly carbonated (my problem) and the hops were a bit muted compared to the 2008 version.
Here it is:
3.3 lbs. Briess Light malt extract syrup
2.0 lbs. Briess Wheat dry malt extract
Added 1.0 lb. Coopers Light DME to get O.G. to where it was supposed to be.
0.25 lb Briess Dextrin Malt
0.25 lb. Weyermann Carafa malt
0.75 lb. Dewolf Caravienne malt
1.50 lb. Hugh Baird Carastan malt
1.5 oz. Willamette hops (4.9% alpha acid) 60 min..
0.5 oz. Willamette hops (flavor hop) (4.9% alpha acid) 10 min.
1.0 oz. Palisades hops (8.3% alpha acid) 2 min.
1 tsp Irish moss for 45 min
White Labs WLP005 British Ale yeast, Wyeast 1335 British Ale II or Danstar Nottingham Dry Yeast
0.75 cup of corn sugar for priming.
I used the Nottingham dry yeast. It was a full wort boil with a 5 gallon final volume. I used a late addition of extract (at flameout). O.G. was 1.056; F.G was 1.014 for a 5.1% ABV. The hop bitterness target was ~ 28 IBU. In retrospect, I'd use some more assertive hops. Maybe Northern Brewer for bittering and Cascade for flavor. I kegged it after a week in the secondary.
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