Julinius

This recipe is inspired by the Julius recipe found here.
Although not much is the same, the recipe found below is based on the ingredients I had in stock together with my former brewing experience on the MiniBrew.

The first batch I brewed I used the Mangrove Jack's M44 yeast, which became quite active, it might be a good idea to use a blow-off tube. Also important to say that the yeast almost took 2.5 days to become active. I do think the M44 does make the hops shine.

Recipe first batch (without hop spider):
Adapted to the latest version of the brewery portal -  without hop spider 





Recipe first batch (with hop spider)
Adapted to the latest version of the brewery portal -  with hop spider 





The second batch
I used a Safale mixture: Safale s04 and a pitch of T58 (yeast a collected from a former brewing batch). I actually was planning to re-use the Magrove Jack M44, but I became very active, so active a lot came out of the jar. So the second batch was a S04 and T58 yeast mixture which was also quite interesting.

The 'official' version of the yeast combo is this: S04/T58/WB06:92%/5%/3%. I have used this combo for three times ( I re-used). The third time the yeast gave a more bubble gum smell. Quite interesting.

'Official' clone version
Please find the 'official' clone version below. Note that this version has 7 hop-drops. The first drop is done manually before the boil starts -> 4 grams of Warrior (note that the PDF does not show this). The recipe shows 'Candy Sugar' but it is actually Dextrose and should be added during the boil.

Note: I noticed that the dry-hop temperature should be 21 degrees celcius (thanks Kristian)

My conclusion
The first version was really impressive. The reason could be that I brewed a really fresh IPA. It is hard to drink them much fresher than this. Also the yeast and hop combination worked really well. Although I have been tweaking I had never the WOW moment like the first time I brewed it. They were all quite nice though. The last time I brewed it with the correct hops and the yeast (third time use). Check the recipe below. It was a very proper IPA. I was not impressed. Although interesting to tell: a friend came over, and usually he rates IPA's quite low on Untappd. The rated the Julius clone recipe with 4 out of 5. I would rate it a 3.5.