I think you will find that "clone" recipes are guidelines only. That doesn't mean they don't make good beer, it means that if you put the commercial example right next to your beer, I'll bet they don't taste the same. In fact, I'll bet in some instances they are distant cousins twice removed.
Anytime someone gives out a recipe, especially an all-grain recipe, it's going to be different for each brewer because everyone brews a little differently. Fermentation temps, ingredient quality, how you treat your yeast, whether you bottle or keg, all of these impact the final product.
The best thing to do is find a recipe that looks interesting, brew it, taste it critically, make changes accordingly, then brew it several more times, making small adjustments each time as your taste buds guide you. Once you hit on a recipe that gives you what you want, if you pass it on to someone else, you'll find that they can brew it exactly as you describe, and it won't taste like yours. Beer is funny that way. It's hard enough just to brew the same beer twice in a row. Once upon a time, our homebrew club did an experiment where 4 of us brewed the exact same all-grain recipe. We all got our grain from the same sack, hops from the same bag, followed the exact specs (OG, mash temps, bitterness, boil time, etc), used the same yeast, and ended up with 4 different beers. Yes, they all tasted similar in that you could tell they were all British Ales, but 4 different beers nonetheless. THe only difference was the brewers and the equipment.
So, all this is a long winded way of saying - don't be dissappointed if your first shot out of the gate on a clone recipe doesn't "wow" you. It's a process - just keep tweaking.
Prosit!
