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Gordon Knight Clone Type Beer

August 20th, 2015

I love the Oskar Blues G’Knight beer. It’s been one of my favorites lately. I’ve never brewed an Imperial Red / Red IPA / Whatever it is. I sure as Hell love drinking them. So based off of the Can You Brew It podcasts and some of my own observations I’ve developed a recipe.

Update 9/4/2015
Brew day went fine. Efficiency was low so I added some DME and ended up about 1.077ish. This beer is extremely hoppy with the 6 ounce charge in the last few minutes. I am extremely interested to see how this turns out. I have a feeling it’ll be the type of beer that’ll take a month to get right after kegging.

Recipe Details

Batch Size Boil Time IBU SRM Est. OG Est. FG ABV
5.5 gal 90 min 67.9 IBUs 11.7 SRM 1.079 1.013 8.7 %

Style Details

Name Cat. OG Range FG Range IBU SRM Carb ABV
Imperial IPA 14 C 1.07 - 1.09 1.01 - 1.02 60 - 120 8 - 15 2.2 - 2.7 7.5 - 10 %

Fermentables

Name Amount %
Pale Malt (2 Row) US 13 lbs 70.27
Munich Malt 3 lbs 16.22
Rye, Flaked 1 lbs 5.41
Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L 12 oz 4.05
Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L 8 oz 2.7
Amber Malt 4 oz 1.35

Hops

Name Amount Time Use Form Alpha %
Magnum 1 oz 60 min Boil Pellet 14
Columbus (Tomahawk) 4 oz 5 min Boil Pellet 14
Amarillo Gold 1 oz 0 min Aroma Pellet 8.5
Simcoe 1 oz 0 min Aroma Pellet 13
Amarillo Gold 1 oz 5 days Dry Hop Pellet 8.5

Miscs

Name Amount Time Use Type
Lactic Acid 18.00 ml 60 min Mash Water Agent
Calcium Chloride 8.00 g 60 min Mash Water Agent
Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) 5.00 g 60 min Mash Water Agent

Yeast

Name Lab Attenuation Temperature
Safale American (US-05) DCL/Fermentis 77% 59°F - 75°F

Mash

Step Temperature Time
Mash In 148°F 75 min

Recipe is here but my plugin stopped working on this file. Boo! Will need to fix.

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