Stone IPA Clone pt. 3 (2024)

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7/8/2024
brewed on 6/28. shorted on perle, but now it looks like i am still really high on ibu. poor efficiency and just guessed on sugar, just adjusted recipe. looks like a 6.6%er

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6/15/2024
this batch from last month came out okay, not great. even fresh it tasted like months old stone ipa. so, accurate to some degree but ultimately not a great beer.

for the next attempt will be aiming to make a better effort on the water front (maybe getting some RO), bumping up both bitterness and flavor hops. as we know stone and other big breweries get a lot more utilization out of their ingredients so the recipes dont really scale down exactly.




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5/21/2024

brewing today. adjusted water. used bling bling water strategy. will be high on mg.

adding a little phosphoric acid as well to bring down pH

should be good to go

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5/18/2024
taking some liberties from the original BYO recipe :

• magnum --> warrior
  
• reducing magnum/warrior and increasing perle from 0.5 to 1oz
  
• dry hops will be pellets instead of whole cone
  
• added acid malt
  
  still need to figure out water. probably refer to cold ipa strategy
  
  seems like this beer doesnt have much hops! for an ipa. but maybe the trick is with the bitterness you dont need as much flavor hops. also its possible stone gets more utilization out so their recipe doesnt scale down. but its ok! if not super hoppy or spot on clone it will be a nice pale ale?
  
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  11/3/2021
  dunno why i have kviek mentioned in here, if trying to be close to the real thing we need to go chico.
  
  need to review water profile. ensure we are starting from RO.
  
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  7/15/2021
  not so sure about hornindal - came out really fruity in zamba brew but that couldve been the hops. for this brew i think its probably going to be cleaner to use lutra.
  
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  6/25/2021
  TODO:
  
• need to redo the water. tried linking with existing water calc but after looking at it, its messed up
  
• check notebook on measured pH. was it way low? could be facing a problem adding entirety of salts for all of the water only to the strike water / mash.
  
  otherwise recipe looks good, consider using hordinal instead of london ale. surprised they use london ale anyway because i think i remember them using chico for most everything.
  
  added existing water calculation to go from distilled to light colored and hoppy profile, last used on weaddababyitzaboi amarillo smash beer. i remember that one coming out a little tart or acidic maybe, wonder if i should aim for higher mash ph?
  
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  3/6/2021
  readjusting this recipe based on the byo article. adding acid malt. need to adjust water from RO.
  
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  3/31/2020:
  i am unsure if i actually brewed this version. there was a bit of a notetaking snafu. i am archiving this recipe, the running version of this beer recipe is here : https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/edit/952513
  
  8/26/2019 :
  adapted from brew your own clone recipe. unclear when this appeared in print. https://byo.com/recipe/stone-ipa-clone/
  
  they boil for 90 minutes (probably to get more bitterness out of less hops, those smarties) they also use perle + magnum but i will just use enough magnum for 60 mins to get up to IBU. the recipe calls for whole hops for dry hop but that will depend on availability / convenience...