elvis juice

I had one on sunday for the first time, I don't normally look for this type of beer but was reading the tread on Tesco range, this beer blew me away so much so I want to make something close it, how does this look there will be also 30g of grapefruit peel in as well
elvis juice
English IPA
Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 21.0
Total Grain (kg): 6.000
Total Hops (g): 110.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.062 (°P): 15.2
Final Gravity (FG): 1.016 (°P): 4.1
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 6.09 %
Colour (SRM): 6.9 (EBC): 13.6
Bitterness (IBU): 47.8 (Tinseth)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 70
Boil Time (Minutes): 60
Grain Bill
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5.500 kg Pale Malt (91.67%)
0.500 kg Caramalt (8.33%)
Hop Bill
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40.0 g Magnum Leaf (12.5% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (1.9 g/L)
20.0 g Simcoe Leaf (12.2% Alpha) @ 30 Minutes (Aroma) (1 g/L)
20.0 g Amarillo Leaf (8.6% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Aroma) (1 g/L)
30.0 g Mt. Hood Leaf (5.2% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Aroma) (1.4 g/L)
Misc Bill
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30.0 g Orange Peel @ 15 Minutes (Boil)
Single step Infusion at 66°C for 60 Minutes.
Fermented at 19°C with Wyeast 1056 - American Ale

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all advice welcome, the mt hood hops are there because simcoe is not on the list but I will buy them also a lot of dry hops. mosaic is not listed hence mt hood, I have upped the cara to 1kg abv is now 6.5% as per their recipe

Brewdog have released all their recipes in one handy downloadable pdf https://www.brewdog.com/uk/beers/diy-dog.

IIRC it has orange and grapefruit peel in secondary. I've done this before by peeling a couple of oranges and grapefruits, letting soak in vodka for a few days then pouring the whole thing in secondary. Works well.

Cheers jceg, I thought it was secondary, I looked at their recipe and more or less followed it, I like punk ipa but this brew is summat else going to give it ago, do you tip it in at start of fermentation or near the end cheers

Good luck, let us know how it comes out!

I'm not a huge fan of Brewdog, but I do really like this beer though.

jceg316 said:

Good luck, let us know how it comes out!

I'm not a huge fan of Brewdog, but I do really like this beer though.

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Be a few weeks yet I have other brews planned first

I'm sure they've changed the commercial recipe in the last couple of years, it's too treacly and chemical-y (sorry I'm not good at describing flavours) for me now. I've done their DIY recipe a few times now and it's always been great - much better than commercial.

There's no way they use real grapefruit or whatever, that's marketing ********. [Although I've just looked at the ingredients list at a supermarket site and it does say orange peel and grapefruit peel - go figure]. I throw in a full bottle (probably too much but I've got an insensitive palate) of this into the keg and it works well.

https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/natural-pink-grapefruit-extract-15ml/

ITMA said:

I'm sure they've changed the commercial recipe in the last couple of years, it's too treacly and chemical-y (sorry I'm not good at describing flavours) for me now. I've done their DIY recipe a few times now and it's always been great - much better than commercial.

There's no way they use real grapefruit or whatever, that's marketing ********. [Although I've just looked at the ingredients list at a supermarket site and it does say orange peel and grapefruit peel - go figure]. I throw in a full bottle (probably too much but I've got an insensitive palate) of this into the keg and it works well.

https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/natural-pink-grapefruit-extract-15ml/

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They don't use flavourings. It is real grapefruit extract. They may be pretty big and uninteresting these days, but they do still give a damn about the quality of the beer, whether or not they are to one's taste.

Understood. But they never say "extract" on the ingredients. Same stuff as I'm using then. I notice it (the pink grapefruit extract) says it is now stronger so the full bottle is probably way overkill for a 20L batch.

ITMA said:

I'm sure they've changed the commercial recipe in the last couple of years, it's too treacly and chemical-y (sorry I'm not good at describing flavours) for me now. I've done their DIY recipe a few times now and it's always been great - much better than commercial.

There's no way they use real grapefruit or whatever, that's marketing ********. [Although I've just looked at the ingredients list at a supermarket site and it does say orange peel and grapefruit peel - go figure]. I throw in a full bottle (probably too much but I've got an insensitive palate) of this into the keg and it works well.

https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/natural-pink-grapefruit-extract-15ml/

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I think they must of done, i found it very different last time i tried it. Glad its not my imagination. Have you found the extract adds a lot of bitterness? I dosed some bottles with it and could not drink them but that was the old extract. I have the new stuff in the fridge.

BeerCat said:

I think they must of done, i found it very different last time i tried it. Glad its not my imagination. Have you found the extract adds a lot of bitterness? I dosed some bottles with it and could not drink them but that was the old extract. I have the new stuff in the fridge.

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I'm about the worst person to judge tastes, but to me it [the extract] just imparts sour grapefruit taste as you'd expect, didn't notice any bitterness over and above the underlying beer.

I got some basic IPA and added a fraction of a millilitre to a pint and experimented over a few days until I got the right level for me - coincidentally that scaled up to about 15ml for a batch, but as I say I've got rough tastebuds.

Cheers for info guys, when I get round to doing this brew I am going to use real zest grated by my own hand, at the end of the day it is home brew brewed in the yard shed or kitchen, first job is getting all the hops which is a big out lay but the rest will get used in other brews

I have previously primed half of a batch of AIPA with grapefruit juice as a bit of an experiment (inspired by a post here somewhere) and it turned out really quite good. Much better than the rest of the batch anyway...

ITMA said:

Understood. But they never say "extract" on the ingredients. Same stuff as I'm using then. I notice it (the pink grapefruit extract) says it is now stronger so the full bottle is probably way overkill for a 20L batch.

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When I say, "extract", I mean that they still use the zest from real grapefruits. I.e. it is extracted.

Funnily enough there was a thread about this on the BD forums last week. Theres a slightly different recipe now (seems to have been introduced in may).
And it is an extract thats changed to the US recipe(IFF extracts)

prog99 said:

Funnily enough there was a thread about this on the BD forums last week. Theres a slightly different recipe now (seems to have been introduced in may).
And it is an extract thats changed to the US recipe(IFF extracts)

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That's disappointing they have decided to go down that route.

Its always been an extract apparently. And this is straight from the staff.

prog99 said:

Its always been an extract apparently. And this is straight from the staff.

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Let's clarify though. Extract, as in extracted from fruit. Not one of these horrible bottles of flavouring you get. It is quite a big difference. When we brew coffee that's an extract and quite different from drinking something made from a flavouring.

Well its bought in is what they are saying and the supplier has changed to the one the US recipe uses based on customer feedback.
I haven't had one for a while but I seem to remember a warning it contains grapefruit as some folk are allergic to it.

Rodcx500z said:

I had one on sunday for the first time, I don't normally look for this type of beer but was reading the tread on Tesco range, this beer blew me away so much so I want to make something close it, how does this look there will be also 30g of grapefruit peel in as well
elvis juice


Recipe Generated with BrewMate
all advice welcome, the mt hood hops are there because simcoe is not on the list but I will buy them also a lot of dry hops. mosaic is not listed hence mt hood, I have upped the cara to 1kg abv is now 6.5% as per their recipe

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I just dump a couple of litres of this into primary along with a standard beer receipe. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/259336269

dad_of_jon said:

I just dump a couple of litres of this into primary along with a standard beer receipe. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/259336269

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Is that a 21l batch or bigger, how did it turn out