80 Acre Hoppy Wheat Clone

About a week ago I came across Boulevard Brewing's 80 Acre Wheat beer. I immediately fell in love with it. I am not a big fan of wheat beers, but this one just tasted great to me. With a heat wave in full effect, the desire to brew something similar was high. I checked out some different threads as well as Boulevards website to come up with a clone recipe. It helps that Boulevard is pretty open about the beers ingredients.

It is a pretty simple recipe. There is only one small bittering addition. I used CTZ, but it really doesn't matter what is used as long as you get something like 12-16 IBUs (Boulevard lists this as a 20 IBU beer). All of the rest of the hops, and there are a ton, come at flame out or later.

The calculations below come from Beersmith. In my opinion that program doesn't handle flame-out hop additions well. I guarantee that you are going to pick up some IBUs from a large flame-out addition like the one below.

At flame out we added close to 14 oz of Cascade hops and let things stand for 15 minutes. When we started chilling the temp was 190.

The finishing touch to this beer will be a half pound more of Cascade and a half pound of Nelson Sauvin as dry hops. It will give this beer the aroma of a fine IPA, but will come off more or less like a slightly hoppy and quite citrusy wheat beer.

80 Acre Clone (Hoppy Wheat)

American Wheat or Rye Beer

Type: All Grain	Date: 6/30/2013
Batch Size (fermenter): 20.00 gal	Brewer: Michael & Tim
Boil Size: 23.59 gal	Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 70 min	Equipment: Stainless Pots (26 gallons) -BCS 460
End of Boil Volume 21.00 gal	Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
Final Bottling Volume: 20 gal	Est Mash Efficiency 75.6 %
Fermentation: Ale, Single Stage	Taste Rating(out of 50):
Taste Notes:
Ingredients
Ingredients Amt Name Type # %/IBU 24 lbs 10.4 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 62.2 % 8 lbs Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 2 20.2 % 7 lbs Wheat, Flaked (1.6 SRM) Grain 3 17.7 % 1.25 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 4 16.3 IBUs 13.80 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Aroma Steep 15.0 min Hop 5 0.0 IBUs 4.0 pkg SafAle English Ale (DCL/Fermentis #S-04) [23.66 ml] Yeast 6 - 8.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 7 0.0 IBUs 8.00 oz Nelson Sauvin [12.00 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days

Mash Profile
Mash Steps Name Description Step Temperature Step Time Saccharification Add 13.39 gal of water at 163.9 F 153.0 F 60 min
Sparge Step: Batch sparge with 2 steps (Drain mash tun, , 15.96gal) of 168.0 F water
UPDATE 7/10 -This beer has been in the fermenter for 10 days at a constant temp of 67. I did not check the gravity, but I am sure that fermentation is complete. I added a whole pound of hops to the fermenter today. 8 oz of Cascade and 8 Nelson Sauvin. I plan on letting it go 4-5 days before kegging. 7/14 - Kegged this one today. Tasted and looked a lot like grapefruit juice. I will give it a week of keg conditionaing before tasting again.