Awesome, just cloned hopslam!

And when you post your recipe I can too!!!

Seriously, I've never had it and probably never will unless I clone it, so if you feel like sharing I think we are all waiting for it. Good job.

 

Yeah, FG is a little high. I would've added more (quantity) of characterful grains vs. the large majority of DME, as well as more honey, 90 minute boil, and a big nasty yeast starter... but that's just me. Dryhop amount would also be more like 5 oz. too.

When/how did you incorporate the honey? Was it orange blossom?

 

Just to clarfy, by 1 in the malts you mean 1#, and by 1 in hops you mean 1oz, correct?

Also, 1 honey is 1# honey, or 1# honey malt?

Thanks for the recipe.

 

So you found a recipe for Hop Slam and changed up the hops, or you found a recipe for a IIPA and switched up the hops to what you had and ended up cloning Hop Slam w/o trying?

 

Check out this thread: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f69/hopslam-clone-219599/

Recipe is sorta similar to yours, no honey and about the same FG.

 

is that 1 pound of sucrose? or 1 oz?

 

Homebrew noob here, how does one go about hopping for 0min?

 

You add the hops at the end of the boil, and they impart flavor/aroma while the wort is cooling.
The '0' just means 0 minutes from the end of the boil.

 

You should harvest yeast from one of the lower ABV Bells beers to truely clone it. 001 will get you close, but the Bells yeast has given me closer 2 Hearted clones, so it should for Hopslam too.

 

Ah, that makes perfect sense. Thanks much!

 

Adding sucrose to the boil might be impacting your FG. Instead, try waiting a few days into primary fermentation to add it to your fermenting bucket/carboy.

Also, 1 lb. of honey malt is quite a bit. I've been experimenting with it in my brews and have found that a little goes a long way. My last batch was a honey DIPA that had 2.5 lbs orange blossom honey and .2 lbs of honey malt. The honey malt made up roughly 1% of the grain bill, and for me that seems to be the sweet spot. YMMV.

 

VikeMan said: ↑

You add the hops at the end of the boil, and they impart flavor/aroma while the wort is cooling.​

The '0' just means 0 minutes from the end of the boil.​

A hop addition @0" followed immediately by chiller-ing will produce a different aroma profile than a hop addition @0" followed by a 10" steep before chilling.

Allow me to suggest the latter for more better aroma.

 

And let this be a reminder to everyone that "0 min" additions are highly variable, depending on your system. For instance, if it takes you 30 min to cool to pitching temperature, your "0 min" addition will have a different aroma/flavor contribution than someone who takes 60 min to cool.

And I'm not even getting into IBUs. Reportedly, Heretic Brewing picks up 60ish IBUs just from their "0 min" addition for Evil Twin.