Beers/ales/Lagers from your past that you want to/have tried to clone...

[Misplaced_Canuck]

Hope you post your Blatz recipe and results (if you find it and make it). I remember my parents drank that when I was a wee tyke (mom being from Wisconsin). It came in short, like Red Stripe still does.

It's still around! I have 1/2 of a 24 in my fridge in SC. I picked it up just outside of Detroit in August!

MC

 

[JimRausch]

Not from my misspent youth, but I've been trying for a few years to design a recipe to match Lion Stout, which IMO is a perfect stout. Getting closer and closer.......

 

[Dog House Brew]

Maudite and Fin du Monde were really my first introductions to the world of craft beer and I am strongly thinking of trying to attempt to make my own copies of them sometime in the near future.

FYI, You can find WY3864 right now if you hurry. I just ordered a fresh pack this week. It was their Pc offering and is almost gone in most places.

 

[Mutant]

Beers from that far back bring back good memories and good times, if not neccesarily memorable beers. Rolling Rock long necks, direct from the Latrobe, PA brewery at the beach during spring break - for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The "Study Hall" restaurant on Friday afternoons, cutting classes, and enjoying a hot pastrami and several Beck's Dark lagers (probably one of the first imports I tried). Just to name a couple. Most of the beers available to me then were lagers, and I've never had the desire to try to duplicate them - the ales, and most recently the Belgian ales, I've come to appreciate over the course of 45 years is what originally drew me to brewing and continues to be my focus.

Rolling Rock Pony Bottles by the case

 

[JAReeves]

In college, there was a pub called Spike's which gave out little punch cards, "Beers Around the World." If you hit 40 countries, you got a plaque on the wall. My plaque is the same as my signature line below. In any case, I have to go with Guinness as my favorite young adult beer. I loved the dry, slightly sour, bitter and roasty flavors. I am trying to do another stout this Saturday the 7th, as my last two batches both got infected and had to be tossed. Not any of my other beers, just my stout, go figure.

 

[Snuffy]

Theakstons Old Peculiar clone is in the Speidel as we speak. Drinking on a Paulaner hefe clone now. Tried to clone Sammy Smiths Pale but I over hopped a bit. Spent a lot of time working in Houston In the early 2000s. Used to drink Bellhaven Scottish ale at the Richmond Arms pub. Tried a clone kit of that from AHS but I don’t think it was that close to what I remember. Did a Moreland‘s Old Speckled Hen a while back that was great. When I was a youngster, we drank mostly regular Michelob. May try that one sometime since you can’t get it anymore.

 

[Mutant]

In college, there was a pub called Spike's which gave out little punch cards, "Beers Around the World." If you hit 40 countries, you got a plaque on the wall. My plaque is the same as my signature line below. In any case, I have to go with Guinness as my favorite young adult beer. I loved the dry, slightly sour, bitter and roasty flavors. I am trying to do another stout this Saturday the 7th, as my last two batches both got infected and had to be tossed. Not any of my other beers, just my stout, go figure.

Is that 40 countries in one night, or over a longer period of time? College has different standards

 

[Mutant]

I would always like to repeat my Vienna Beer awarded 'Double Gold' for a score of 44. That was a great beer. I didn't even win the competition, so somebody had a higher score than that.

 

[Sunfire96]

Rainier/Olympia were staples of my youth. Followed by the original Ranger IPA (New Belgium)

 

[Broothru]

Rainier/Olympia were staples of my youth. Followed by the original Ranger IPA (New Belgium)

"Artisians. I seen 'em."

 

[Dog House Brew]

Falls City returnable cases with my Dad every Saturday morning. College Weideman and Genesee Cream Ale.

 

[JAReeves]

Is that 40 countries in one night, or over a longer period of time? College has different standards

There was one night when we hosted the Shott's and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band for a fundraiser concert. I am pretty sure we hit more than 40 countries that night. Those Scots can drink!

 

[bleme]

In college, there was a pub called Spike's which gave out little punch cards, "Beers Around the World." If you hit 40 countries, you got a plaque on the wall.

My college had a pub on campus, which I later learned isn't common, which seems crazy to me but... Every year they sold tickets to a "beers of the world" night. If you were enrolled in Culinary Arts, you could even get class credit for them! I still have nightmares about that Mexican jalapeno lager (with a whole jalapeno floating in the bottle) and the chunky Jamaican fruit beer.

When I first started brewing, I used all kits and most of those were clones. Some of them were beers that I was familiar with (SNPA and Moose Drool) that I think turned out even better than the commercial beer. Most of them were clones of beers I wanted to try but couldn't get here, like Zombie Dust and Spotted Cow.

 

[bracconiere]

3%ABV as all beers in Utah had to be.

they did it by weight. so actually 5% ABV. or so i've been told.

From what I remember (over 45 years now)

is this an edit from the first time i read this thread? come on girl! you know you're still a kid! fess up to it!

 

[Boilinginsc]

Hope you post your Blatz recipe and results (if you find it and make it). I remember my parents drank that when I was a wee tyke (mom being from Wisconsin). It came in short, like Red Stripe still does.

That was our fishing beer in my youth! We said it was named from the next mornings results in the library!

 

[FleEsq]

Milwaukee's best (the Beast) and Miester Brau were the my cheap beer of choice in my beer drinking youth. I do brew a BMC lager clone just to see if I can, any mistakes in the process and you'll know it.