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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

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.

That is one of my favorites

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.

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

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

Brandon wrote: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.

TastyMcD wrote: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.