Bell's Two Hearted IPA

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Permalink Reply by Crusader-Rob on March 10, 2014 at 2:06pm

Isn't Bell's 100% Centennial?

Permalink Reply by Cain Harland on March 10, 2014 at 4:06pm

Your dead right about that according to their website 100% Centennial. I wonder where that recipie came from

Permalink Reply by Crusader-Rob on March 10, 2014 at 5:43pm

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f69/bells-two-hearted-ale-clone-close-t... 

heresthe one i have seen.

Permalink Reply by Peter Smith on July 16, 2014 at 8:58am

I eased the alcohol back towards mid 5's and brewed this last night ,so its really more a pale ale then an IPA  wyeast 1272    2L starter,   my chill water was running at about 8C and I got the clearest wort ever...  but I screwed up and added a bit to many hops a bit early on so on the fly remodelled the bittering so its not a full copy of the us clone hop schedule,ended up being a 65min boil.    Going to keg 1/2 and bottle 1/2 to compare the result after 4-6 weeks etc.

5.00 kg	Gladfield Ale Malt (3.0 SRM)	Grain	1	78.7 %
0.50 kg	Caramalt	Grain	2	7.9 %
0.50 kg	Gladfield Vienna Malt (3.6 SRM)	Grain	3	7.9 %
0.25 kg	Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM)	Grain	4	3.9 %
0.10 kg	Acid Malt (3.0 SRM)	Grain	5	1.6 %
35.00 g	Centennial [9.00 %] - Boil 35.0 min	Hop	6	23.9 IBUs
25.00 g	Centennial [9.00 %] - Boil 20.0 min	Hop	7	12.5 IBUs
0.15 tsp	Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 mins)	Fining	8	-
25.00 g	Centennial [9.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min	Hop	9	7.5 IBUs
25.00 g	Centennial [9.00 %] - Boil 4.0 min	Hop	10	3.4 IBUs
0.5 pkg	American Ale II (Wyeast Labs #1272) [124.21 ml]	Yeast	11	-
25.00 g	Centennial [9.00 %] - Dry Hop 4 Days	Hop	12	0.0 IBUs

Permalink Reply by Peter Smith on August 16, 2014 at 3:03pm

ok This is a great beer , can recommend this to anyone who likes a good clean pale ale.  The 1272 seems to attenuate very well (I mashed about 65C) , great base beer that could easily be hopped up, but this, makes a great session beer, will be at my summer Shebeen and Brai  party on tap this year.     

I will have some of this at the home brew tasting if there is any left.

Permalink Reply by Crusader-Rob on September 3, 2014 at 2:42pm

What OG Did you aim for Peter?

Permalink Reply by Peter Smith on September 3, 2014 at 3:21pm

og 1.052  fg 1.010  was better in keg then in bottle but almost all my beers are like this unless I wait in bottles about 8-10 weeks....   except stouts which i only bottle and wait 3 months.   it must be noted this is not really a hoppy beer, Centennial is a good base bittering a flavour hop but doesn't pop, thus it is an easy drinking rugby watching with mates beer, slides down easy,   it has the base and depth to support a decent late hop addition of classic us hops ie cascade / simcoe / armirillo etc

If I do this again I would drop vienna, and do 3 parts pale ale to 2 pilsner base malt,  I tried a marris otter xpa with lots of late hops recently that blew me away....     thats on the brew list as well.   I think all glad pale is a bit too much for this beer recipe....

I cant knock 1272 , slowish to start doesn't get too hot and finishes if you ramp up for a rest at the end real well,  have a stack of 1272 under 40L of us pale ale will be racking into carboys next mon/tuesday...  you can have some  if you are keen (yeast that is  8)

you could use any of the clean us yeasts even us05, I struggle to get us05 to finish like 1272 tho