How about a Pliny Clone?

If you Google 'Pliny the Elder recipe clone' you'll get choices for extract or all-grain, as well as links to the BA site with discussion. I've got an extract batch fermenting now, but I don't recall which website I found it. It should be an accurate recipe for a scaled-down batch as compared to a brewery-sized batch because the smaller recipe is said to have been created by the brewer.

 

Here is the the recipe posted in Zymurgy Magazine back in 2009. I scanned it from the magazine. https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=99795EF9A4F8EADA!190&authkey=!AMgyT-NoyUGWH4U&ithint=file,.pdf

 

That's exactly the recipe that I used. Thanks for posting it.

 

I made this one a while ago, turned out great. I haven't had too many plinys to know if its a clone.

http://www.bertusbrewery.com/2013/08/pliny-elder-clone-30.html

 

There was an error on the grain bill, there was an errata published in the next issue. One could adjust it up for a 6 gallon batch, as the recipe was to take the loss to the hops into account.

 

I just bottled northern brewers point clone I'll post how it is. Although I've never had the real deal so I won't be able to speak to its similarity. Also brewed extract not AG.

 

They sell a Pliny the Elder clone kit from morebeer.com. Check it out.

 

Did the grist from Vinny's recipe, but used different hops/hop schedule. Made my top six list. Fantabulous. Even if you don't have the specified hops, you can still make a great DIPA with the clone recipe.

 

I believe the kit from More Beer is from the actual brewer of Pliney the Elder.

 

Did you actually make your stated recipe goal of "going from boil to bottle in 3 weeks?"

 

I brewed it a year or so ago and it was absolutely wonderful. I have another batch going now and I put in the last dry hops on Sunday. I can't wait for it to be ready. It's one of my all-time favorites.

The recipe I have is exactly the same as the Zymurgy one, except that it calls for CTZ instead of Columbus.

 

CTZ = Columbus Tomahawk Zeus. You can use any of those hops, as they are trade names for the same cultivar. During a talk at the NHC a few years back, Ralph Olson of Hopunion confirmed that those were the same.

 

BYO version

HOMEBREWING PLINY THE ELDER
8 Gallon Gross Kettle Volume / 5 Net Gallons Post Fermentation

O.G. - 1.070
T.G. - 1.011
BU's - 90-95 (actual/not calculated)
ABV - 8-8.5%
Mash Rest - 151-152
Boil Time - 90 min.
SRM - 7ish

MALT BILL
87% 2-Row Malt
4% Crystal 45 Malt
4% Carapils (Dextrin) Malt
5% Dextrose Sugar

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HOP BILL
3.50 oz CTZ 13.90% A.A. 90 min.
.75 oz CTZ 13.90% A.A. 45 min.
1.00 oz Simcoe 12.30% A.A. 30 min.
1.00 oz Centennial 8.00% A.A. 0 min.
2.50 oz Simcoe 12.30% A.A. 0 min.

1.00 oz CTZ 13.90% A.A. Dry Hop (12 to 14 Days Total)
1.00 oz Centennial 9.10% A.A. Dry Hop (12 to 14 Days Total)
1.00 oz Simcoe 12.30% A.A. Dry Hop (12 to 14 Days Total)

.25 oz CTZ 13.90% A.A. Dry Hop (5 days to go in dry hop)
.25 oz Centennial 9.10% A.A. Dry Hop (5 days to go in dry hop)
.25 oz Simcoe 12.30% A.A. Dry Hop (5 days to go in dry hop)
(adjust your hop addition quantities accordingly with your exact alpha acid‛s)

California Ale Yeast

"NO RANDALL, NO PROBLEM, THIS RECIPE IS HOPPY ENOUGH TO NOT NEED A RANDALL"

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AFAIK...today's commercial version includes an Amarillo addition somewhere.
Even if this isn't an exact copy...it's so good you'll weep.

 

Ah, well, I knew it was Columbus Tomahawk Zeus, but I assumed that it was a blend of 3 different hops. I didn't know they were the same thing. Last time I brewed it, I got hops labeled, "CTZ" but they didn't have any this time, so with the batch I have going now I just used Zeus instead of CTZ. I noticed that it tastes the same though. I guess that explains it!

 

Yes, when you see CTZ listed, it means to select any one of those that you have or can find easily.

 

I just ordered this recipe from Northern Brewer, I also went with extract. I am very interested to hear how yours turned out. I will be brewing mine this weekend if it shows up in time.

 

It was pretty darn close. Within a few days. First test bottle was probably popped at around 30 days after the boil. Optimum was of course after about 2.5 weeks in the bottles.