The Beer You.d Most Like To Clone?

[benno1973]

I'm finding the key to it is retaining huge amounts of sweetness. Both those Boh Pils are very sweet, and while it can be done with decoctions (painful) my latest "**** it, why not!" attempt with 20% melanoidin and 40 IBUs is the closest I've ever got.

Seriously, 20% melanoidin? I've been adding 2-3% and disappointed with the sweetness, so been planning on slowly upping it in 1% increments - might take me a while to hit the spot!

 

[beerbog]

Gibbo tell me when its done ill cross the railway line and try it!!!! :icon_drool2:

I've just chucked on 40g of Cascade dry hop, next Friday she'll be ready. :beerbang:

 

[beerbog]

Please discuss:

BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com
Recipe: SNPA Clone by Beerfan
Brewer: Malted
Asst Brewer:
Style: American Pale Ale
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (35.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 32.98 l
Post Boil Volume: 26.06 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 23.17 l
Bottling Volume: 23.17 l
Estimated OG: 1.053 SG
Estimated Color: 14.9 EBC
Estimated IBU: 37.6 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 77.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 83.3 %
Boil Time: 70 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
4.91 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) US (3.9 EBC) Grain 1 93.0 %
0.37 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (118.2 EBC) Grain 2 7.0 %
14.40 g Magnum [13.60 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 3 21.6 IBUs
14.40 g Perle [7.70 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 4 9.4 IBUs
28.81 g Cascade [5.80 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 5 6.7 IBUs
56.70 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 6 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056) [125.00 Yeast 7 -


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Medium Body
Total Grain Weight: 5.28 kg
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Mash In Add 13.77 l of water at 74.4 C 67.8 C 60 min
Mash Out Add 7.71 l of water at 91.5 C 75.6 C 10 min

Sparge: Fly sparge with 14.89 l water at 75.6 C
Notes:
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Seirra Nevada Pale Ale clone.

Here's my version, the dry hop I actually added 40g, not 25g.
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

Selected Style and BJCP Guidelines
10A-American Ale-American Pale Ale

Minimum OG: 1.045 SG Maximum OG: 1.060 SG
Minimum FG: 1.010 SG Maximum FG: 1.015 SG
Minimum IBU: 30 IBU Maximum IBU: 45 IBU
Minimum Color: 9.9 EBC Maximum Color: 27.6 EBC


Recipe Overview
Wort Volume Before Boil: 28.00 l Wort Volume After Boil: 23.00 l
Volume Transferred: 17.00 l Water Added To Fermenter: 3.00 l
Volume At Pitching: 20.00 l Volume Of Finished Beer: 19.00 l
Expected Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.046 SG Expected OG: 1.048 SG
Expected FG: 1.012 SG Apparent Attenuation: 74.9 %
Expected ABV: 4.8 % Expected ABW: 3.8 %
Expected IBU (using Tinseth): 37.6 IBU Expected Color (using Morey): 14.8 EBC
BU:GU ratio: 0.78 Approx Color:
Mash Efficiency: 75.0 %
Boil Duration: 60.0 mins
Fermentation Temperature: 18 degC


Fermentables
Ingredient Amount % MCU When
Australian Traditional Ale Malt 5.412 kg 95.0 % 5.7 In Mash/Steeped
Australian Crystal 140 0.285 kg 5.0 % 4.8 In Mash/Steeped


Hops
Variety Alpha Amount IBU Form When
German Perle 8.5 % 19 g 15.6 Loose Pellet Hops 60 Min From End
US Magnum 15.6 % 10 g 15.1 Loose Pellet Hops 60 Min From End
US Cascade 5.1 % 28 g 6.9 Loose Pellet Hops 15 Min From End
US Cascade 5.1 % 21 g 0.0 Loose Pellet Hops At turn off
US Cascade 5.1 % 25 g 0.0 Loose Pellet Hops Dry-Hopped


Other Ingredients
Ingredient Amount When
Whirlfloc Tablet 1 g In Boil


Yeast
DCL US-05 (formerly US-56) SafAle


Water Profile
Target Profile: No Water Profile Chosen
Mash pH: 5.2
pH Adjusted with: Five Star 5.2

Total Calcium (ppm): 13 Total Magnesium (ppm): 3
Total Sodium (ppm): 14 Total Sulfate (ppm): 8
Total Chloride(ppm): 30 Total Bicarbonate (ppm): 35


Mash Schedule
Mash Type: Full Mash
Schedule Name: Single Step Infusion (65C/149F)

Step Type Temperature Duration
Rest at 65 degC 60

The yeast was an 05 slurry (about 200ml) from a previous blonde ale. :beerbang:

 

[Tanga]

Mine is more close to home - White Rabbit Dark Ale ( love the taste ), I got fairly close with a goop pack, just need to tweek.

James Squires 150 lashes, nice and easy to drink on hot summers days

Also was at the James Squires brew pub in Melb, and they had a beer called Speculator, a very nice drop.

If anyone has reciped for these using Goop cans, can you forward them on. Much appreciated.

My dark was surprisingly close to the white rabbit dark, but I'd definately lose the late northern brewer hops. 200g each of crystal and carapils and 100g of light choc cold steeped overnight. A can of Coopers dark, and a can of Saunders malt. Add something beginning with C @ 15 minutes. Brewed with Nottingham yeast.

 

[Malted]

Here's my version, the dry hop I actually added 40g, not 25g.
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

Cool, 5% crystral (and darker) for yours and mashed at 65 instead of 68. Higher OG, FG & IBU for yours. I have not had a go at the recipe so will be keen to hear how it goes for you!

 

[Truman42]

I would like to clone Mornington Brewerys Pale Ale, of which I came really close to matching with my version of the Sticks and stones recipe.

And RedHill Brewerys Scotch Ale. Love that stuff but at $5 a stubbie its too expensive to drink all the time.

 

[eamonnfoley]

VB: Not what you might expect but every time my mates drink my homebrew they look at me like all that body, that flavour and hop character etc. is a fault, a mistake. If i could brew a really good VB clone my Dad and mates would realise that what i brew isn't a mistake but a deliberate crack at creating a beer with flavour and character.

post that.


Avec le bons de la brasserie dupont. Fking love this beer.

Sam Smiths IPA
Schlenkerla Rauch

I have a schlenkerla clone in a Zymurgy or BYO magazine somewhere at home - will see if I can find it. I also love that beer.

 

[bear09]

Old Speckled Hen... Nothing I have ever tasted home made comes even close...

How they get that rich malty falvor balanced off so cleanly with the bitterness all packaged up in a perfectly clear beer in a clear bottle - totally beyond me or any of us here Id say.

Must be the water and perhaps their yeast.... I continue to dream.

 

[Philthy79]

Mine is Theakston's Old Peculier as it is my wife's favourite beer.

It's one of mine as well...

:icon_drool2:

 

[dkaos]

Old Speckled Hen... Nothing I have ever tasted home made comes even close...

How they get that rich malty falvor balanced off so cleanly with the bitterness all packaged up in a perfectly clear beer in a clear bottle - totally beyond me or any of us here Id say.

Must be the water and perhaps their yeast.... I continue to dream.

Plus the 6 month? aging in oak barrels Old speckled hen is beautiful.

 

[enuun]

Marston's Owd Rogers

 

[drsmurto]

Timothy Taylor's Landlord

Four years on and I still think it's not quite there yet.

Lots of fun trying though :icon_drunk:

 

[Bribie G]

Old Speckled Hen... Nothing I have ever tasted home made comes even close...

How they get that rich malty falvor balanced off so cleanly with the bitterness all packaged up in a perfectly clear beer in a clear bottle - totally beyond me or any of us here Id say.

Must be the water and perhaps their yeast.... I continue to dream.

I bought six from Dan's and got a good batch obviously. I trawled the web and made a batch with all the correct malts and hops and had a stab at the yeast. Mine was really good, one of the best ales I have made.
However the original (despite being bottled) nearly made me cry.
The first malty hit, the aroma, then the after taste, then another flavour coming through right over the top, then another aroma up the back of the nose, then another flavour that lingered and lingered, then another flavour...... then the next mouthful :icon_drool2:

 

[Stagwa]

Ruddles County,

Does anyone have a recipe please?


Cheers,
Stagwa

 

[big78sam]

The Brewdog ***** Please Scottish Barley Wine.
Laphroaig in a beer bottle :icon_drool2:

 

[bum]

Ruddles County,

Does anyone have a recipe please?


Cheers,
Stagwa

Burt and DrSmurto provided some very helpful input/recipe design in this thread: http://homebrewandbeer.com/forum/viewtopic...=11&t=10282 (thread turns to **** after page 2 though). It didn't work out to be a bang-on clone but it was in the ball-park and more enjoyable (IMO) than the bottle of the original I found a little while after. YMMV

 

[rehab]

8 Wired HopWired (or Tall Poppy), EPIC Armageddon Barrel Aged would also be a cool one to get under the belt (Anything in a barrel would be pretty sexy to be honest!) or a Croucher Patriot (just for something different).
If I went for SN I would probably want to give the Torpedo a crack B)

 

[Stagwa]

Burt and DrSmurto provided some very helpful input/recipe design in this thread: http://homebrewandbeer.com/forum/viewtopic...=11&t=10282 (thread turns to **** after page 2 though). It didn't work out to be a bang-on clone but it was in the ball-park and more enjoyable (IMO) than the bottle of the original I found a little while after. YMMV

Cheers Bum.

That info is pretty good. I'm just after some guidance not really a clone. I have found a few different recipes but they seem a little off the mark.

Cheers,
Stagwa

 

[peas_and_corn]

Waterloo Double Dark. Mainly because I can't get it at the Belgian any more.

 

[manticle]

Burt and DrSmurto provided some very helpful input/recipe design in this thread: http://homebrewandbeer.com/forum/viewtopic...=11&t=10282 (thread turns to **** after page 2 though). It didn't work out to be a bang-on clone but it was in the ball-park and more enjoyable (IMO) than the bottle of the original I found a little while after. YMMV

You've got me interested in playing with bramling now. I had a ruddles recently and was impressed with the hop flavour and bitterness. I remember the bitterness lingering, presumably assisted by some kind of sulphate but without the beer being as minerally as some of my experience.