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[DromJohn]

My choice, and I've slotted an IPA clone every 16 brews. There's a beer everybody says is great, but I've never tasted it (nor seen it to taste). So tonight I brewed Northern Brewer's The Plinian Legacy.

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO choice, Val-Dieu Triple. Purchased the kit from Maltose Express, the Tess & Mark Szamatulski shop. This is a "new beer recipe" which will included in their forthcoming third clone book.

 

[DromJohn]

My experiment slot, an attempt to clone Redhook 8-4-1 Expedition Ale, significantly derived from a HBT thread.

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO choice, recipe adapted from the Avery website.

 

[DromJohn]

This is a play on my favorite session beer, Redhook ESB. I replaced the Pale Ale malt and Amber LME with Munich.

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO choice. Recipe from Clone Brews by Tess and Mark Szamatulkski, adapted to LME partial mash. "Bush" in Europe, Brasserie Dubuisson markets as "Scaldis" in the U.S. to avoid being mistaken as Busch. "Bush de Noël" is "Yule log," which is a decadent Christmas dessert. This brew is that decadent. Unfortunately the U.S. name "Scaldis Noël" loses the Yule log reference.

 

[DromJohn]

In my Non Bitter/IPA column I chose to try to "clone" the hybrid Belgian Style Scotch Ale of Terrapin Reunion '10. It's more of an inspiration, because I doubt it will be close to a clone.

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO's choice.

 

[DromJohn]

Sixteen brews ago, I selected the cheapest AHS IPA kit that I hadn't brewed. Since then I have brewed and been happy with kits from Maltose Express and Northern Brewer. So I widened my target and selected the cheapest kit that I hadn't brewed offered by those three vendors. Because NB took six days to process my order, thus missing my original planned brew day, this might be my last NB kit. However, the wort smelled and tasted very nice. It's a conundrum. The label is a NB web ad modified using MSPaint.

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO's choice.

 

[DromJohn]

My experiment slot, inspired by Dogfish Head Theobroma. Cameca engages The Doctor by sharing theobroma in The Aztecs.

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO chose a fourth rebrew of Redhook Double Black Stout.

 

[DromJohn]

Initially this was the slot for the cheapest bitter kit by a vendor that I have used that I hadn't brewed yet. Penciled in was a Northern Brewer kit. I got mad at Northern Brewer when their new shipping policy made me miss my first brew day. So I erased the NB kits, and started listing other vendors' kits. And I thought, hmm, KingBrianI's Common Room ESB seems worthy. So I penciled in Common Room ESB. Then Northern Brewer began to add shipping dates to the $7.99 rate. No longer mad, but what else don't I like about NB? One pound grain bags! I've accumulated many partial Maillard bags. So I penciled in Leftover ESB. Then Homebrew Supply announced their recipe giveaway. I started an entry for Lord of the ESB. That doesn't use leftovers. I didn't post. But, if I don't post, then @CreamyGoodness might win. So I restarted an entry, but thought, using leftovers is more important than blocking CreamyGoodness. So I brewed a Leftover ESB.

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO choice, her third clone of a Bush/Scaldis brew.

 

[DromJohn]

My Non Bitter/IPA slot, an inspired attempt to clone a beer that I drank three years ago and haven't seen since.

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO choice, Hibiscus Mango Blonde, found on Pinterest, clicked through to discover a Joe Strange recipe from Zymurgy. The picture is from the AHA website with the warning: "Note: the actual color of the beer will have more of pink hue from the hibiscus, as opposed to the golden color in the image."

 

[DromJohn]

Every sixteenth brew is an IPA clone. This one is my usual LME conversion, slight change to the Victory American hop usage, and dry yeast because it's too hot to ship liquid yeast variation of a Beer Captured recipe by Tess and Mark Szamatulski.

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO choice, another Beer Captured recipe by Tess and Mark Szamatulski, converted to LME something. Secondary will be my first time using bugs.

 

[DromJohn]

My experiment slot, starting with another brewer's blog, adjusted by Allagash comments on that blog, then modified by adjusting to Allagash website, then the usual conversion to partial something.

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO's choice, starting with @loco 's recipe on the Weihenstephaner Vitus Recipes Thoughts thread, with adjustments and conversion to partial something.

 

[DromJohn]

Another variant of Redhook ESB. For this one I replaced the pale ale with Maris Otter. For a couple of years I imagined pairing Roger Maris with an otter with a large branch, but when I found the Mel Ott stamp, I changed the pairing.

 

[Senormac]

I like it. Theres room to get creative with that one

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO choice, back to one of her favorites.

 

[DromJohn]

My not Bitter/IPA slot.

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO choice.

 

[DromJohn]

Leftover IPA with leftover chestnut.

 

[MSK_Chess]

Would be interested to learn how your Innis and Gunn clone turned out and how close to the original it was. Learned today that they use Super Styrians in most of their beers almost exclusively.

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO choice. Based on @Rowdy50 's Crispin Saint Clone.

 

[DromJohn]

My experimental slot.

 

[DromJohn]

SWMBO choice, recipe from Beer Captured.