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**Ogri** · 01-21-2013, 03:18 AM

Just wondering how many others on here have had their beers turn out similar to a commercial one by coincidence.

First attempt at AG/BIAB using Maris Otter, crystal 70L, a tiny amount of chocolate wheat and some brown sugar, Nugget for bittering, Fuggles and Kent Goldings for flavour and aroma that I was thinking/hoping might get me close to an old crafty hen or old speckled hen but fell a little short of that goal.

Last night I picked up a bottle of Belhaven Twisted Thistle IPA, as I had an inkling that mine was similar, and did a head to head with my beer. The resemblance is quite surprising.

Neither are all that great

**nukebrewer** · 01-21-2013, 09:49 AM

I brewed a brown ale once, my own recipe with no intention of cloning anything, but I was drinking it one night after having had some Hobgoblin a few days before and said to myself, "Damn, this is the spitting image of Hobgoblin. Score!" A few days later I was drinking a real Hobgoblin and asked my wife to try it and tell me what it tasted like. She said it tasted like my brown.

**Ogri** · 01-21-2013, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by nukebrewer

I brewed a brown ale once, my own recipe with no intention of cloning anything, but I was drinking it one night after having had some Hobgoblin a few days before and said to myself, "Damn, this is the spitting image of Hobgoblin. Score!" A few days later I was drinking a real Hobgoblin and asked my wife to try it and tell me what it tasted like. She said it tasted like my brown.

Hobgoblin is one of the Wychwood beers I can find at the local off license here and really like, but not the price

Costs about the equivalent of $6 a bottle for the 500ml bombers). Don't suppose that you still have the recipe and could post?

***Yooper*** · 01-21-2013, 01:53 PM

I did something very similar. I wanted to make a Fat Tire clone for a friend- but I had to sub some of the malt and sub of the hops out due to availability.

The resulting beer tasted remarkably like Sam Adams Boston Ale.

I changed it a bit for my friend's taste, I then posted my recipe as "Fat Sam".

It's actually an excellent beer. My friend loved it, and always called it his favorite beer. I made it for him several times.

**Ogri** · 01-21-2013, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Yooper

I did something very similar. I wanted to make a Fat Tire clone for a friend- but I had to sub some of the malt and sub of the hops out due to availability.

The resulting beer tasted remarkably like Sam Adams Boston Ale.

I changed it a bit for my friend's taste, I then posted my recipe as "Fat Sam".

It's actually an excellent beer. My friend loved it, and always called it his favorite beer. I made it for him several times.

Reminds me of the film "Bugsy Malone" with Jody Foster and all the pie slinging Tommy guns

Will Check out the recipe.

**unionrdr** · 01-21-2013, 02:23 PM

My 2nd brew came from a 2 year old can of Cooper's OS lager With some fresh DME & hops. About 2 months later I had what looked & tasted like Salvator doppel bock. Brewed with ale yeast,I got chewwed out pretty bad with all the you can't do that,it isn't a lager,it's not strong enough...blah blah blah blah ,yada yada yada yada. Chewed on left & right. Hey,It tasted pretty darn close,& the bottle did say ale on it. It'd be harder to reproduce next time around...Called it summer ale in my gallery.

**nukebrewer** · 01-21-2013, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Ogri

Hobgoblin is one of the Wychwood beers I can find at the local off license here and really like, but not the price

Costs about the equivalent of $6 a bottle for the 500ml bombers). Don't suppose that you still have the recipe and could post?

I don't have the recipe anymore, but I think I can recall something that's pretty close.

10 lbs 2-row
.5 lb Biscuit
.5 lb Honey Malt
.25 lb Chocolate Malt

1.5 oz Willamette @ 60 min

US-05

Kind of a hybrid between and English and an American brown. Enjoy!