Levitate Your Ale

I had already planned on doing a clone of one of my favorite session beers, Stone Levitation, then The Brewing Network went and ran a CYBI show about how to clone this beer. I changed my initial recipe up to match theirs since they "cloned" it. I recently was in Florida and picked up a 6 pack. Lets hope that I can save at least one of the beers to see if I can actually pull off a clone myself.

Levitate Your Ale

Malts:

9lbs 4 oz: Marris Otter

1lb 1oz: Crystal 80L

.5 lb: Crystal 120L

.75 oz: Black Patent

Hops:

.5oz: Columbus @90min
.5oz: Simcoe @20min
1.0oz: Amarillo @20min
1.25oz: Crystal @20min
2oz: Amarillo Dry Hop

Misc:
1 Whirlfloc Tablet

Target OG: 1.048
Target FG: 1.011
IBU: ~48

Actual OG: 1.053
Actual FG: 1.017
Apparent Attenuation: 67%

ABV: 4.8%
ABW: 3.7%

Yeast:
White Labs Dry English Ale (WLP007)

Hopville Recipe

Update 1.31.2010: Well this might have been the worst brew day I have had in a while. I missed my target mash temp (157) big time at 154. This is attributed by the fact I didn't take into account that the grain I had was cold and not at room temperature, so the heat loss was more than I calculated for. Then for some reason the boil was a little too vigorous and I got more boil off than normal, which yielded a higher OG and less volume. So the beer wont be "cloned", but hopefully it's still good. Fermentation has already started and I am trying to keep it around 65 till fermentation is complete.

Update 2.15.2010: I was gone for an entire week for vacation. Came home last night and added the dry hops. I took a gravity reading before I left and it read 1.019, which is way too high from where I wanted. I hope that it finished out while I was gone. Ill let it sit on the dry hops for a few days before crashing it out and moving it to a keg.

Update 2.24.2010: Racked beer over to the keg.  Took a final reading of 1.017, which is way too sweet but we will see how it turns out.  I think it will have to be drank pretty quick to be any good.  Nice firm bitterness and obviously some sweetness in there to balance everything out.  Hopefully someone will drink it.

Update 4.2.2010: Beer received a 31.5 score in the 2010 PSBO.  Here is the score sheet