Jamil Show- American IPA (Tasty's SN Celebration Clone)

[Beerrific]

I was listening to the Jamil Show, America IPA episode and Tasty shared his Sierra Nevada Celebration clone. I am interested in brewing this to be ready for the cooler months. I could not find the recipe posted anywhere. I listed to it again, took notes and wanted to run it by everyone to see if I was missing anything. I scaled for a 6 gallon post boil batch.




Notes:
--Efficiency: 65%
--90 minute boil with 6 gallons at end of boil
--Brew without pants
--Mash: 153-154
--Mash hop 0.75 Chinook
--Add dry hops to primary when bubbling slows
--Dry hop for ~2 weeks
--Yeast: WLP001
--Ferment around 68-69F, bump to 73F to 74F towards the end

[herbaljoe]

That looks pretty good to me. I have brewed this beer 4 times now and this is the version that I used: http://www.beertools.com/html/recipe.php?view=6930

My efficiency at the time was around 85% so the grain amounts are a bit lower than yours. The hop additions could be rounded down as well.

This recipe provided me with my first really incredible homebrew drinking experience.

[6thstreetbrewer]

That is one of my favorites

[Westco]

I have brewed this recipe as well and I was amazed at how wonderful it tasted. One thing I will change this time is I will take out the dry Chinook hops because On Sierra Nevada's site they say they only use Chinook for bitter not any dry hopping or late hop addition.

[Brandon]

Don't want to get into a battle of the clone recipes, especially since the SN Celebration is a bit different every year, but Dean Larson's recipe is the one floated around the most on this beer:

12# Domestic 2 Row Malt
1# English Crystal Malt 45-50L

1 oz Chinook 60 min
0.25 oz Chinook 30 min
1 oz Cascade flameout
0.5 oz Cascade dry hop
0.5 oz Centennial dry hop
0.5 tsp Irish Moss, 15 minutes

[TastyMcD]

I really doubt if my Celebration clone recipe is really very close at all to the 1999 or any other version. Like a lot of my early clone attempts, I stopped tweaking when I liked how the beer tasted before I was able to clone it successfully. This beer has considerably more malt complexity, leans more towards balanced, and is a deeper red that SNCA. In 2008, it placed in the finals of the national competition in the IPA category. http://beerdujour.com/RecipeIndex.htm

You'll definitely find a better clone recipe. A better beer? Depends on your tastes.

Tasty

[Beerrific]

Don't want to get into a battle of the clone recipes,

Sounds like a challenge for CYBI.

I never got around to brewing this, I probably will soon. If it is good enough for Tasty, it is good enough for me. Clones be damned.

[mediumsk]

I really doubt if my Celebration clone recipe is really very close at all to the 1999 or any other version. Like a lot of my early clone attempts, I stopped tweaking when I liked how the beer tasted before I was able to clone it successfully. This beer has considerably more malt complexity, leans more towards balanced, and is a deeper red that SNCA. In 2008, it placed in the finals of the national competition in the IPA category. http://beerdujour.com/RecipeIndex.htm

You'll definitely find a better clone recipe. A better beer? Depends on your tastes.

Tasty

+1
seems like the best things ive tasted and brewed are inspired by other beers, yet perfected by being taken in another direction or left alone how ive brewed it.