All Citra Everything clone recipe

All Citra Everything (ACE) is Other Half Brooklyn's Citra-bomb triple IPA. The premise is in the name: every hop addition is Citra, dosed at the absolute maximum the style can support without going grassy. ACE became one of the most-traded beers of the hazy boom and a benchmark for hop-saturation extremism.

Brewery

Other Half

Style

New England Double IPA

ABV

10.5%

IBU

OG / FG

1.09 / 1.012

SRM

First brewed

2015

About this beer

ACE is overwhelming in the best way. Pure Citra: pulpy orange juice, passionfruit, lime zest, ripe mango. The 10.5% ABV is well-hidden behind the hop saturation. Drinkable enough that the bottle disappears too fast. Brew this if you want to understand the upper limit of what one hop can do.

Grain bill (5-gallon batch)

Grain	Weight	%	Role
2-row pale malt	13 lb	60%	Big grain bill for 10.5% ABV — base malt does most of the work.
Flaked oats	4.0 lb	18%	Heavy oat for body.
Wheat malt	2.5 lb	12%	Protein, haze, body.
Flaked wheat	1.0 lb	5%	More haze.
Dextrose / corn sugar	1.0 lb	5%	Boosts ABV without adding body — important to keep the beer drinkable at 10.5%.

Hop schedule

Hop	Amount	When	Purpose
Citra (or Citra Cryo)	1.5 oz	30 min boil	Bittering — Citra works for clean bittering here
Citra (or Citra Cryo)	4.0 oz	Whirlpool 30 min @ 170°F	Massive whirlpool charge
Citra Cryo	6.0 oz	Dry hop · day 3 (active)	Biotransformation — maximum tropical extraction
Citra Cryo	4.0 oz	Dry hop · day 7 (post)	Final aroma blast

Yeast

London Ale III / Wyeast 1318

Standard NEIPA yeast. Pitch heavy at 66°F, ramp to 70°F to finish the high gravity.

Water profile

Soft, chloride-forward — same NEIPA profile as Tree House and Monkish. ~75 ppm sulfate, ~150 ppm chloride.

Process notes

Mash at 154°F — leaves enough body to support the hops
Use Citra Cryo (LupuLN2) for the dry hops at minimum — concentrated lupulin gets the maximum tropical without grassy.
Biotransformation dry hop on day 3 is critical for the juice character
Total Citra: 15.5 oz per 5-gallon batch. This is at the upper end of what's brewable.
Cold crash to 30°F to drop yeast but keep haze
Package with extreme oxygen avoidance

Why it tastes like that

The interesting part of a clone recipe is understanding why each ingredient choice matters. Here's what each element of the recipe contributes:

All-Citra at extreme dose rates pushes Citra's full thiol expression. Other Half uses ~2x the dry-hop rate of typical NEIPAs.
Cryo Hops (LupuLN2 form of Citra) gives you the concentrated lupulin without the grassy plant material that would otherwise dominate at these dose rates.
Dextrose at 5% lifts the ABV to triple-IPA range while keeping the beer thin enough to drink — without it the beer would be cloying.
Heavy oat + wheat + flaked wheat create the soft body that supports the high IBU while making the bitterness feel rounded.
Biotransformation dry-hop on day 3 with massive Cryo Citra dose is the highest-impact addition — yeast cleaves Citra's cysteine-bound thiol precursors to release free 3SH (passionfruit) and other tropical-fruit thiols.