According to Bell's website this beer is 1.058 OG, 7% ABV. So if I run this through a quick formula:
ABV=(OG-FG)*131, FG = OG-ABV/131, FG = 1.00456
1.00456, good for about 92% apparent attenuation. Every clone recipe I've seen is mostly 2-row, some crystal, and in some cases vienna/munich and carapils/dextrine. They must use simple sugar (or other low residual carbohydrate adjunct, rice?) to achieve such a high attenuation but I don't see that represented in the clone recipes. Do you guys think the website information is wrong?
Now if the apparent FG is 1.00456, then the real FG is about 1.0139 (using formulas from website below). I'm assuming all of this residual extract is from the grain, not the sugar. If we assume 70% real attenuation (just a guess, anlalogous to 85% AA) from the yeast, then the grain OG would need to be:
(x-13.9)/x=.3, 0.3x=13.9, x = 46.3 gravity points. That means the remaining 11.7 points should come from sugar, or about 1.25 lbs in 5 gallons. This works out to about 13% sugar by mass if the mash efficiency is around 80%. Does this seem reasonable?
formula source: http://www.realbeer.com/spencer/attenuation.html


