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I did the Dead Guy clone.

SRM was dead on.
I used the pacman yeast.
I nailed my OG and FG.
The beer was really good but the Deadguy definately had a more pronounced hop profile throughout the entire beer. I would add 50% to the Sterling hop addition in the recipe for my system (brutus 10 clone with converted kegs). My beer is more like a standard Maibock and it's tasty but it's not a Dead Guy.

Result - Not cloned - needs to be rebrewed.

Interesting how much one person's setup can produce a totally different beer from someone else's setup. I too find I typically need to add more knockout addition hops to get the aroma I am looking for.

I'm going to try drop hopping with Sterling to get the hop nose like the Dead Guy.

dunleav1 wrote:I did the Dead Guy clone.

SRM was dead on.
I used the pacman yeast.
I nailed my OG and FG.
The beer was really good but the Deadguy definately had a more pronounced hop profile throughout the entire beer. I would add 50% to the Sterling hop addition in the recipe for my system (brutus 10 clone with converted kegs). My beer is more like a standard Maibock and it's tasty but it's not a Dead Guy.

Result - Not cloned - needs to be rebrewed.

I've brewed it once as well and agree (I brew in a 3 tier converted keg system). Color was very very close but I made notes in my brew log to up the hops next time. I do use hop bags so that may have a bit to do with it... but at any rate I think the malt profile was there, just needed more hops all around (bittering mostly, but also some flavor and aroma).

beltbuckle wrote:

dunleav1 wrote:I did the Dead Guy clone.

SRM was dead on.
I used the pacman yeast.
I nailed my OG and FG.
The beer was really good but the Deadguy definately had a more pronounced hop profile throughout the entire beer. I would add 50% to the Sterling hop addition in the recipe for my system (brutus 10 clone with converted kegs). My beer is more like a standard Maibock and it's tasty but it's not a Dead Guy.

Result - Not cloned - needs to be rebrewed.

I've brewed it once as well and agree (I brew in a 3 tier converted keg system). Color was very very close but I made notes in my brew log to up the hops next time. I do use hop bags so that may have a bit to do with it... but at any rate I think the malt profile was there, just needed more hops all around (bittering mostly, but also some flavor and aroma).

I would up the flavor and aroma hops next time. I'm going to dry hop to get a little aroma for this batch.