American IPA Sierra Nevada Celebration Clone 2013

[kamk]

How much priming sugar should I add for 4 gallons ?

 

[bredle]

I kegged, but I plugged it into Beersmith and show 4.32oz corn sugar for 4 gallons, or 3.93oz table sugar. This is based on 2.3 volumes and should work for this beer.

 

[bredle]

Minkforce, Ronarse - how are your brews coming along? Ronarse - based on your bottling date your getting close to cracking one?

 

[kamk]

Thanks , she is in the 1 st primary right know. Can't wait to try this
Kurt

 

[ronarse]

Yeah I'm looking forward to trying one. Going to let them sit for another two weeks if I can resist temptation.

 

[bredle]

Yeah I'm looking forward to trying one. Going to let them sit for another two weeks if I can resist temptation.

I know - it's tough, but I think it will be worth the wait! I am currently waiting on a cream stout!

 

[bknifefight]

Thanks , she is in the 1 st primary right know. Can't wait to try this
Kurt

Youre doing a 1st primary? Ah man, the beer's ruined. Better dump it, the recipe clearly states to start with a 2nd primary.

 

[cochised]

Just ordered a brew pot and gas burner so I can begin AG brewing. Methinks this may be first on the to do list, cheers for the recipe and all the replies.

 

[Minkforce1]

Minkforce, Ronarse - how are your brews coming along? Ronarse - based on your bottling date your getting close to cracking one?

Had to take some time off, but finally bottled last night. Tasted great out of the hydrometer test, spot on from 1.07 down to 1.02 for 6.5%abv. Color was beautiful, but I need to figure out where I'm losing liquid, because I only got 36 bottles, where I usually get around 48 in a 5 gallon batch.

 

[cantrell00]

Using the targets provided to "ronarse" (ABV/IBU & SRM) & calculated into Brewer's Friend - the recipe would look very similar to below. 5.5 gallons



Added By: Anonymous
Method: All Grain
Style: American IPA
Boil Time: 100 min
Batch Size: 5.5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Boil Size: 8.25 gallons
Boil Gravity: 1.048 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 75% (brew house)

Original Gravity: 1.072 Final Gravity: 1.020 ABV (standard): 6.77% IBU (tinseth): 63.69 SRM (morey): 11.01
Fermentables
Amount Fermentable PPG °L Bill %
13 lb American - Pale 2-Row 37 1.8 90.9%
1.3 lb American - Caramel / Crystal 60L 34 60 9.1%
14.3 lb Total
Hops
Amount Variety Type AA Use Time IBU
0.75 oz Cascade Pellet 7 Boil 100 min 19.99
0.5 oz Centennial Leaf/Whole 10 Boil 100 min 17.3
1 oz Cascade Pellet 7 Boil 90 min 26.4
0.5 oz Chinook Pellet 13 Boil 0 min
0.5 oz Cascade Pellet 7 Boil 0 min
0.66 oz Cascade Leaf/Whole 7 Dry Hop 10 days
0.34 oz Centennial Leaf/Whole 10 Dry Hop 10 days
Mash Guidelines
Amount Description Type Temp Time
6.125 gal Infusion 157 F 60 min
4 gal Infusion 175 F 20 min
Starting Mash Thickness: 1.75 qt/lb
Yeast
Fermentis / Safale - American Ale Yeast US-05
Attenuation (avg):
72%
Flocculation:
Medium
Optimum Temp:
59 - 75 °F
Starter:
No
Fermentation Temp:
68 °F
Pitch Rate:
0.75 (M cells / ml / ° P)
273 B cells required

 

[bredle]

Just ordered a brew pot and gas burner so I can begin AG brewing. Methinks this may be first on the to do list, cheers for the recipe and all the replies.

Cochised - are you in Dublin? What a great place to brew a beer, glad you've ordered your equipment!

 

[jjw5015]

I brewed a variation of this back before Thanksgiving. Due to poor timing and traveling around the holidays, I ended up doing a 9 day dry hop. I know that is a longer than ideal dryhop, but I've heard of longer. I'm getting a very grassy/metallic taste to this beer even after bottle conditioning for 8 weeks. I thought it would've mellowed out by now. Just wondering if anyone had a similar experience or if anybody has any input. It was a 5 gallon batch. Here is my hop schedule:


Chinook (US) 1.0 oz 60 min
Cascade (US) 1.36 oz 10 min
Centennial (US) 1.36 oz 10 min
Centennial (US) 1.0 oz dryhop 9 days
Chinook (US) 1 oz dryhop 9 days
Cascade (US) 1.0 oz dryhop 9 days

 

[cochised]

Cochised - are you in Dublin? What a great place to brew a beer, glad you've ordered your equipment!

I am indeed in Dublin.

 

[bredle]

JJW - I did not get a grassy or metallic taste to the beer, I got lots of malt flavor with plenty of hops (and a pine aroma) coming through. Not sure where that metallic flavor is coming from, but I have heard that extended dry hopping can produce grassy flavors. That being said, I've dry hopped brews for 9 days before without a problem.

Maybe someone with more experience can weigh in!

 

[cantrell00]

My most recent IPA has been dry hopped in a keg for two weeks now & I am not getting any metallic tastes at all.

I hope it holds true...

 

[jeff62217]

Plan on making this tomorrow.

I've had a hankerin' for an IPA for a couple weeks here now, and it was a toss up if I brew this or denny's wry smile rye IPA... This won due to me having almost all the hops on hand already... and 1056 slurry.

 

[andy906]

Needless you are my hero! I randomly grabbed a case of Celebration at my local Costco a while back and fell in love. Since then I've been looking for a clone. If your clone is anywhere close I'm in your debt!

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[Minkforce1]

This came out FANTASTICALLY. So good, despite a few minor mishaps on my part. I'm drinking my second one for the night before I hide them all away from my fiance who's turning into a hop head. A definite make again, and soon.

 

[bredle]

Minkforce - my wife is a hophead as well and drank most of mine. Glad it turned out well for you. Be sure to share some pics when you have time. Did you bottle or keg?

 

[Minkforce1]

Minkforce - my wife is a hophead as well and drank most of mine. Glad it turned out well for you. Be sure to share some pics when you have time. Did you bottle or keg?

Bottled it up-not ready to dive into kegging quite yet, but enlisting my brew buddy for bottling days may convince him to chip in.

not up to par with my usual photography, but waiting to see if i ever make some labels as well

 

[bredle]

Ronarse - have you cracked a bottle yet? How did it turn out?

 

[ronarse]

I have drank a few of them. I am disappointed in myself because I dry hopped for too long and the taste is off. Of course I won't let it go to waste....but I will be redoing this recipe in the near future. Just got my Barley Crusher in last night too. Strength wise, this beer turned out to be 7.2%, just no aroma and a harsh flavor ( all of which I caused accidentally)


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[bredle]

I just brewed my favorite robust porter, which has always been a favorite, and let it ferment way higher than it should have, and racked it to the keg too early, so I am getting some off flavors. I'll drink it but won't give it out and it's not the same as the really good drink I'm used to. It's always a bummer when a brew doesn't turn out quite right, but in our hobby we always get a second (or third) shot at it!

 

[bredle]

Ronarse - now that you have a barley crusher you should try some smaller batch brew in a bag recipes (quicker brew days/less clean up). I just did my first BIAB and it's great for experimenting with new recipes and trying smaller batch recipes. I use my grain mill to double crush the grains and help my efficiency. I blogged about it here:

http://boykingbrewhaus.com/2014/02/07/brew-day-bells-two-hearted-clone-biab/

 

[andrhamm]

I brewed a variation of this yesterday. I split the bittering hops between Chinook & Centennial like the SN guy recommended (their website also reflects this). I can't figure out how to export the recipe from beersmith as text, so here is a link to my version on BrewToad:

http://brewtoad.com/recipes/sierra-nevada-celebration-ipa-1

My numbers are a bit weird because I have to use a smaller pot on my stove so I split the wort into a couple different smaller pots but only hop the main 4G pot. Looking forward to sampling this one!

 

[pilgrimhd]

Here's my take on the Jamil show 100 BBL recipe related by Steve Dresler on the Jamil show in 2011. I scaled the recipe down from 3100 gal to five gals in MS Excel and tweaked it using BeerrSmith. My first attempt came out a little darker and maltier than the commercial example, but was still quite nice. This is my second attempt and I asked my LHBS (thebreshop.biz, Fredericksburg, VA) to make sure I had all British pale and crystal malts to more closely match the example recipe. This has been in the Primary since the 17th, and today's gravity was 1.020. Still a little cloudy, plenty of yeasies in suspension, so it should hit my 1.015 target just fine. Next up is a rack to secondary for 7 days then 3 days dry hop with 3 oz of hop pellets. I'll bottle on 7 March and ship to the 2014 AHA Homebrewers Competition in Pilly on the 10th of March 2014. Should be nicely carb'ed up by judging time.

Here's the recipe. I left off the water additions but you want high Calcium/Sulfate/Bicarbonate (hard water) to make the hops pop. I use Brun' Water Pale Ale base with my local water profile and adjust from there.

Mash @ 152 for 60 mins
12 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (3.0 SRM) Grain - 80.0 %
2 lbs Muntons Crystal Malt (40.0 SRM) Grain - 13.3 %
1 lbs Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain - 6.7 %

0.75 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [19.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop - 43.7 IBUs

1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining
1.00 oz Cascade [7.10 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop - 9.6 IBUs
0.50 oz Centennial [9.10 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop - 6.1 IBUs

1.00 tsp Yeast Nutrient (Boil 10.0 mins) Other

1.00 oz Cascade [7.10 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop - 0.0 IBUs
0.50 oz Centennial [9.10 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop - 0.0 IBUs

2 L starter of WLP001 pitched at 68 Deg F

Primary 10 days at 68 ending at 68.
Secondary 7 Days at 68 then 3 days dry hop.

2.00 oz Cascade [7.10 %] - Dry Hop 3.0 Days Hop - 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Centennial [9.10 %] - Dry Hop 3.0 Days Hop - 0.0 IBUs

Vitals

Measured OG = 1.069
Est FG = 1.015
Est Bitterness = 59 IBU
Color = SRM 11.5
Est ABV = 7.0

Enjoy!

 

[cantrell00]

Here's my take on the Jamil show 100 BBL recipe related by Steve Dresler on the Jamil show in 2011. I scaled the recipe down from 3100 gal to five gals in MS Excel and tweaked it using BeerrSmith. My first attempt came out a little darker and maltier than the commercial example, but was still quite nice. This is my second attempt and I asked my LHBS (thebreshop.biz, Fredericksburg, VA) to make sure I had all British pale and crystal malts to more closely match the example recipe. This has been in the Primary since the 17th, and today's gravity was 1.020. Still a little cloudy, plenty of yeasies in suspension, so it should hit my 1.015 target just fine. Next up is a rack to secondary for 7 days then 3 days dry hop with 3 oz of hop pellets. I'll bottle on 7 March and ship to the 2014 AHA Homebrewers Competition in Pilly on the 10th of March 2014. Should be nicely carb'ed up by judging time.

Here's the recipe. I left off the water additions but you want high Calcium/Sulfate/Bicarbonate (hard water) to make the hops pop. I use Brun' Water Pale Ale base with my local water profile and adjust from there.

Mash @ 152 for 60 mins
12 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (3.0 SRM) Grain - 80.0 %
2 lbs Muntons Crystal Malt (40.0 SRM) Grain - 13.3 %
1 lbs Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain - 6.7 %

0.75 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [19.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop - 43.7 IBUs

1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining
1.00 oz Cascade [7.10 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop - 9.6 IBUs
0.50 oz Centennial [9.10 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop - 6.1 IBUs

1.00 tsp Yeast Nutrient (Boil 10.0 mins) Other

1.00 oz Cascade [7.10 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop - 0.0 IBUs
0.50 oz Centennial [9.10 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop - 0.0 IBUs

2 L starter of WLP001 pitched at 68 Deg F

Primary 10 days at 68 ending at 68.
Secondary 7 Days at 68 then 3 days dry hop.

2.00 oz Cascade [7.10 %] - Dry Hop 3.0 Days Hop - 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Centennial [9.10 %] - Dry Hop 3.0 Days Hop - 0.0 IBUs

Vitals

Measured OG = 1.069
Est FG = 1.015
Est Bitterness = 59 IBU
Color = SRM 11.5
Est ABV = 7.0

Enjoy!

I did this exact same recipe except I used Chinook as the bittering, .75 oz. I think...

I had read somewhere that they mashed at 157.5, so I mashed at that temp - long story short, it must have been bad info because it finished as 1.022 and was obviously very sweet... It wasn't necessarily bad but wasn't Celebration either.

I will run this recipe the next time at the lower mash temp.

I hit all of the other numbers as described.

This was the first pour from the keg. It is much clearer now.

 

[notixx]

my brother is a huge fan of celebration, so this weekend i'll introduce him to the process and brew this one up! thanks for the recipe.

 

[cantrell00]

Brewed it again...

From a post by Denny Conn on the Northern Brewer forum.. I mashed @ 151 for 75 minutes. OG of 1.060.

Fermenting @ 70 degrees on WL001



Directly from SN...

89% pale malt (or DME)
11% crystal 60
.5 oz. each Chinook and Centennial at 60 min.
2.5 oz. Centennial at 10 min.
1 oz. Cascade/.5 oz. Centennial at flameout
1 oz. Cascade/.5 oz. Centennial dry hop

Shoot for 1.064 OG and 65 IBU

This recipe came directly from SN brewmaster Steve Dressler

 

[GuyBob]

I may be a little behind on this but the OG poster noted a 90 min boil time but the first hop additions were at 60 mins. Is there anyone here who has gotten good results off then original recipe or is this revised one better. Thanks


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