2012 Celebration Ale

10 in the fridge, one in the belly, one in the glass, and 6 gallons of a Celebration Ale clone in primary. Bring on the holidays.

I love this beer. I had 12 of the real thing last week. Yesterday I sampled my clone. It is still a little "green" at 3 weeks in the bottle, but it will be awesome by Christmas

Cold crashing my clone right now then dry hop!

My clone tastes awesome but next year I'll bump up the Chinook! Other than that, this SNCA clone is probably the best beer I have made yet!

I have a 1/6 keg of Celebration waiting for me at home. Going to tap it in a day or two, I'm so excited.

Can one of you guys post the recipe or a link to it? You are making my mouth water...

zachattack said:

I have a 1/6 keg of Celebration waiting for me at home. Going to tap it in a day or two, I'm so excited.

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My beer store can't get the 1/6 kegs for some reason. No explaination. They just said they are not available.

Find a better store!

PJM said:

Can one of you guys post the recipe or a link to it? You are making my mouth water...

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Check out this post: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/recipe-tomorrow-question-4788/#post43073

If anyone get s Brew Your Own magazine, the latest issue has a bunch of SN clone recipes in it, including celebration. Looks like I'll be making some soon!

gcdowd said:

If anyone get s Brew Your Own magazine, the latest issue has a bunch of SN clone recipes in it, including celebration. Looks like I'll be making some soon!

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Its weird how every time they post a SNCA clone recipe it's different. I just picked one and went with it.

Ryush806 said:

Its weird how every time they post a SNCA clone recipe it's different. I just picked one and went with it.

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I did the same thing. I brewed mine a week and a half ago. My copy of BYO, with the SNCA clone recipe in it, arrived two days after I brewed. I used one of the recipes from this site and it was very close to the one in BYO. Mine will be "over"-hopped since I am using up all of the homegrown Cascade and Centennial that was in my freezer.

PJM said:

Can one of you guys post the recipe or a link to it? You are making my mouth water...

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I used this post as my guide:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/jamil-show-tastys-sn-celebration-clone-176201/

Wound up with this for a 5 gallon batch:

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
11 lbs 8.0 oz Pale Malt (2 Row)US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 87.6 %
1 lbs 10.0 oz Caramel/CrystalMalt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 2 12.4 %
0.60 oz Chinook [13.00 %] -Boil 60.0 min Hop 3 24.4 IBUs
0.40 oz Chinook [13.00 %] -Boil 30.0 min Hop 4 12.5 IBUs
1.38 oz Cascade [5.50 %] -Boil 15.0 min Hop 5 11.8 IBUs
0.86 oz Centennial [10.00%] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 6 13.4 IBUs
1.03 oz Cascade [5.50 %] -Boil 0.0 min Hop 7 0.0 IBUs
0.65 oz Centennial [10.00%] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 8 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg California Ale(White Labs #WLP001) [35. Yeast 9 -
0.85 oz Cascade [5.50 %] -Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 10 0.0 IBUs
0.44 oz Centennial [10.00%] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop 11 0.0 IBUs

Thanks guys. I'll look them over a pick one. Love this beer

Here's the recipe I brewed that is currently in primary. I'll add the dry hops this weekend, two weeks after initial brew day.

6 gallons, 65% Efficiency, Mash Temp ~154
15 lbs. Marris Otter
1.5 lbs English Crystal 60
47 gms Chinook - 60 min
42 gms Homegrown Cascade - 15 min
21 gms Homegrown Centennial - 15 min
42 gms Homegrown Cascade - 5 min
21 gms Homegrown Centennial - 5 min
42 gms Homegrown Cascade - 0 min
20 gms Homegrown Centennial - 0 min
42 gms Homegrown Cascade - Dry Hop 7 days
21 gms Homegrown Centennial - Dry Hop 7 days
1.6 L starter of 1056.

It sounds like a lot of hops, but I've noticed my homegrown hops are milder than the store bought ones. Nonetheless, I'm hoping for a big hop flavor and aroma.

Not surprising that there's a lot of different clone recipes. Each year the SNCA is different. I think this years is a little milder in both the hop and malt dept. I like it a lot actually. Not at all like it was 10 years ago. Liked it then too....

StMarcos said:

Not surprising that there's a lot of different clone recipes. Each year the SNCA is different. I think this years is a little milder in both the hop and malt dept. I like it a lot actually. Not at all like it was 10 years ago. Liked it then too....

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Glad someone else said this--always been a fan, but this Year's batch seems a lot more mild!

Less mouthfeel this year, IMO.

I think it's a little less malty this year.

b-boy said:

I think it's a little less malty this year.

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It seems a little lighter on the malt and the hops compared to previous years. I wonder how it is on tap this year...

Dry hopped my clone today!


Hydro sample tasted amazing!

Ryush806 said:

Dry hopped my clone today!
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Hydro sample tasted amazing!

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Its beautiful <sniffle> <sniffle>

Doog_Si_Reeb said:

It seems a little lighter on the malt and the hops compared to previous years. I wonder how it is on tap this year...

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Probably in line with a lot of breweries aiming for a more sessionable IPA. Blasphemy, I say.

Agreed on the comments...seems weaker this year, both malt, mouthfeel and hops. Still a great beer, just not how I remembered it. Good time to brew a full-bodied clone and jack it up a little.

I dry hopped mine last night as well.

Clone bubbling away next to me while I'm enjoying a real one