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Chinook Hop Gatherer IPA | Sierra Nevada Hop Hunter® Clone | 5 Gallon Beer Recipe Kit | All-Grain

Chinook Hop Gatherer IPA | Sierra Nevada Hop Hunter® Clone | 5 Gallon Beer Recipe Kit | All-Grain

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Description

  • Our clone recipe of Sierra Nevada's Hop Hunter IPA a tasty, easy drinking and highly aromatic beer spiked with Chinook hop oil
  • Includes Bravo™, Cascade, Crystal, and Simcoe® hops
  • Estimated ABV: 6.2%
  • Estimated IBUs: 60
  • Makes 5 gallons of finished beer

Hop Hunter IPA by Sierra Nevada brewing is the inspiration for this delicious recipe.  Hop Gatherer is a Hop Hunter clone, which contains all of the same ingredients as the original beer, but gives you the option of what distilled oil you would like to use.  We offer the kit with either Chinook or El Dorado farm distilled hop oil.  Either way, this makes a tasty, easy drinking and highly aromatic IPA!

A bit about farm distilled hop oil: Distilled immediatley after picking, farm distilled hop oil gives you the bursting aroma provided by fresh hops.  By distilling the oil at the farm, the distinct character of a "wet hop" beer is able to be replicated year round.  The oil can be added post fermentation, typically at bottling.  You can even add the oil directly to your glass! Be careful, it is VERY POTENT!

Light in color and incredibly smooth, this IPA is enjoyed by all. Not too bitter, but absolutely hoppy enough to please the biggest hop head!

  • Makes 5 gallons
  • Estimated Original Gravity: 1.056-62
  • SRM (Color Range): 5
  • IBUs: 60
  • Estimated Alcohol Percentage: 6.2%
 
  • Makes 5 gallons
  • Estimated Original Gravity:1.056-62
  • SRM (Color Range): 5
  • IBU's: 60
  • Estimated Alcohol Percentage: 6.2%

Our recipe kits DO NOT include grain bags, yeast or priming sugar. To find our yeast recommendations, choose your preferred kit option above and then select the drop-down menu under “Yeast Options”.  For more information, click on the recommended yeast(s) below in the “You Might Also Need” section. All grains will come milled, unless you select unmilled base malts.

 

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had it before
Scott M on Mar 5, 2023
Hop Hunter is a favorite beer, which we recently learned is an "archived" beer that SN no longer brews?
Eric Steadle on Jan 18, 2021
had it before
Scott M on Mar 5, 2023
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Stephen G on Jul 2, 2021
Hop Hunter is a favorite beer, which we recently learned is an "archived" beer that SN no longer brews?
Eric Steadle on Jan 18, 2021
Thought I would try an IPA and this was kotw.
JeffD on Jul 28, 2020
Love the original, but cant find it in stores. Hope this co.rs out the same
Jimmy Oliver on Apr 4, 2020
Inexpensive and I think I have used a similar kit and it was good
Matt F on Mar 12, 2020
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Stephen G on Jul 2, 2021
Thought I would try an IPA and this was kotw.
JeffD on Jul 28, 2020
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Rated 5 out of 5
Hoppy beer
Have always liked the Sierra Nevada Hop Hunter, but can no longer find it in my local stores. So decided to brew a batch
Brewed as per the recipe. Wound up adding the full bottle of hop oil to the keg. Good hoppy aroma and flavor. Taste better than the original this way.
August 10, 2022
Purchased
over 3 years ago
Rated 4 out of 5
Great beer - watch it on the hop oil
I got this kit to try and didn't realize that it was all grain. That set off an expensive chain reaction that we shall not discuss at this time. However, this beer _did_ finally get brewed and is being enjoyed and the verdict is that it is really good. One little issue we had was the hop oil. I'm not knocking this off the kit, because really this was a first time for everything experience, and it still came out great. But the hop oil is really strong and we put the whole thing in and should have put like 1/4 or less. Yikes. When the hop oil hits yer taste buds, it'll stick. But the beer is good. Strong clean barley grain flavor, with aggressive malt character, very similar to the original beer. We mashed at 154 and its on the dryer side as we tend to like it.
March 25, 2021
Purchased
over 3 years ago
Rated 4 out of 5
HOP OIL ?????
First time using hop oil. Think it's good but need to drink more to know. The hop taste isn't strong but lingers on the taste bubs for a while and is the strongest when you burb. Got to purchase a larger vile and experience more.
April 14, 2018
Purchased
over 6 years ago
Rated 5 out of 5
Excellent Beer with BIG aroma and great taste!
This Beer turned out perfectly and has a very big nose thanks to the included Hop Oil.
It drinks very well and has a pleasant punch of Hop Bitterness to match but not overwhelm the aroma.
I broke this up into two 2.5 Gallon Batches and really look forward to brewing the other half of the Grain Bill for my second Keg Fill.
I very much recommend this kit due to the high quality and overall great result that will be enjoyed by you and others that you share it with.
Excellent lacing in the Glass...
Excellent lacing in the Glass...
February 6, 2018
Purchased
over 6 years ago
Rated 2 out of 5
They are not kidding!
I was looking forward to this brew because I had enjoyed Hop Hunter a time or so in the past. Brew day went great, I got about 6.4% ABV when it was done in the primary, which I thought was fine & all. When it was time to rack to the keg, that's when I added the little vial of hop oil.....WOW! THIS STUFF PACKS A WHALLOP! A little bit goes a long ways, and not necessarily in a good way.....it was definitely IPA-ish, but the hop oil was a disappointment to me, of course its oil, and unfortunately it made the beer taste, well....oily.
January 16, 2018
Purchased
over 6 years ago