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This is one of my favorite beers. Anyone have a clone recipe for it?
I'm a huge fan of the Hopback Amber Ale, got a case in the fridge now, and I've tried the Nugget Nectar on tap, also delicious. The flavors tasted very similar to me just a little more alcohol bite on the Nugget Nectar.
Anyway here's a link to the Hopback Amber Ale clone recipe I found.
Brew Your Own: The How-To Homebrew Beer Magazine - Tröeg's Hopback Amber Ale: The Replicator -
Bob
I'm a huge fan of the Hopback Amber Ale, got a case in the fridge now, and I've tried the Nugget Nectar on tap, also delicious. The flavors tasted very similar to me just a little more alcohol bite on the Nugget Nectar.
Anyway here's a link to the Hopback Amber Ale clone recipe I found.
Brew Your Own: The How-To Homebrew Beer Magazine - Tröeg's Hopback Amber Ale: The Replicator -
Bob
Looks like a great recipe, and I have thought of doing this before... Seems that your biggest challenge is going ot be finding all those hop varieties... At least that was mine last year.
Straight from the source...
Gravity is very close and the malt bill looks pretty good, NN is about 2/3 pilsner malt and the rest is Munich and Vienna. So if you can, I'd say get some Vienna in for about 1/2 of that amount, it gives a lot of the orange color of Nugget. The recipe's amt of caramel should be good, as well. Hop bill looks pretty good - lots of hops at every addition!
Also interested in hearing how close the clone of Nugget Nectar is to what they brew. I'm planning on brewing one similar to the Zymurgy one but with vienna and munich based on the information from Troeg's website.
My Grain bill is looking like:
37% Pils
31% Munich
31% Vienna
2% Crystal 120L
As for hops I'm substituting Millenium for Nugget otherwise should be pretty close to Zymurgy. Hopefully in three weeks or so I'll be able to comment on if it is similar to Nugget Nectar.
If it's 2/3 Pilsner as already reported, shouldn't that be changed to 66, 16, and 16% for a more authentic profile? It comes out a few SRM dark if you use roughly equal quantities. Just some quick playing with rough ratios gave
9lb Pilsner
2.5lb Munich
2.5lb Vienna
at 75% efficiency.
BeerSmith Estimates $20 for a 2.5 gallon batch. Figure 24 beers from 2 1/5 gallons. Round to $1 a beer which is still 1/2 the cost of what it would cost to pick up the real one...not so bad.
Here's the Nugget Nectar recipe located in Zymurgy (31:4) July/August 2008.
For 5 U.S. gallons (19L)
O.G. 1.075
86.5 IBU
11.4 SRM
90' Boil
6.5 lbs Continental Pils Malt
7.0 lbs Munich Malt
5.0 oz Crystal 120L
1.00 oz 13%aa Nugget 60'
0.50 oz 13%aa Simcoe 30'
1.00 oz 16%aa Warrior 20'
1.25 oz 16%aa Tomahawk 0' or hopback
1.00 oz 8%aa Palisade 0' or hopback
1.00 oz 13%aa Simcoe DH
1.00 oz 8%aa Palisade DH
Cal-Ale yeast
Mash 152F.
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