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Sierra Nevada Celebration Clone

Sierra Nevada Celebration Clone

American Pale Ale • Extract • 5 gal

richanne

This is THE clone of the famous Celebration Ale from Sierra Nevada. If you like hops, malt, and fruit flavors - this is your beer!

July 10, 2003 pm 04:03pm

5.0/5.0 1 rating

Ingredients (Extract5 gal)

  • 1.5 lbs Crystal Malt 20°L

    Crystal Malt 20°L

    Sweet, mild caramel flavor and a golden color. Use in light lagers and light ales.

  • .25 lbs Dextrine Malt

    Dextrine Malt

    In light-colored beers to give additional body. Adds richness without color.

  • 6.5 lbs Liquid Light Extract

    Liquid Light Extract

    A brewer can create any beer style with this extract when used as a base in conjunction with colored malts and selected hops. Contains no colored malts or hops.

  • 1 oz Chinook - 8.8 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Chinook

    Spicy, Medium to Heavy.Very strong bittering ability used in all American ales and lagers. Aroma is very floral.

  • 1 oz Cascade - 4.8 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min

    Cascade

    Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.

  • 1 oz Cascade - 4.8 AA% pellets; boiled 1 min

    Cascade

    Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.

  • .25 oz Cascade - 4.8 AA% pellets; added dry to secondary fermenter

    Cascade

    Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.

  • .25 oz Centennial - 10.0 AA% pellets; added dry to secondary fermenter

    Centennial

    Aromatic but acceptable for bittering. Medium aroma with floral and citrus tones. Good in medium to dark ales.

  • White Labs WLP001 California Ale

    White Labs WLP001 California Ale

    This yeast is famous for its clean flavors, balance and ability to be used in almost any style ale. It accentuates the hop flavors and is extremely versatile.

Notes

Steep grains in 1.5 gallons water for 30 minutes, then rinse with 1.5 gallons of water, add extract, bring to boil, add hops per schedule. When done, cool, strain into fermenter, add water to 5.5 gallon level, when wort is 70 degrees pitch yeast. After one week in primary, rack to secondary and add dry hops. Prime with 3/4 cup corn sugar and bottle or keg when fermentation is complete.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 10 - American Ale

Subcategory: A - American Pale Ale

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.054 1.045 - 1.060
Terminal Gravity: 1.013 1.010 - 1.015
Color: 10.8 SRM 5 - 14
Alcohol: 5.3% ABV 4.5% - 6%
Bitterness: 42.8 IBU 30 - 45

Discussion

rareohs

Fantastic homebrew.

2009-02-21 3:10pm

I am a total newb homebrewer, let me start with that. I brewed this with 2 buddies - one with a bit of brewing behind him and one legit homebrewer. Followed the instructions to the T best we could - I think we had to sub some Amarillo hops for the centennial and we might have used a slightly different yeast. unfortunately we're all slackers and didn't write that part down. But we basically took the recipe to our local homebrew store and got as close as we could. Short story long, our final #'s are odd: Pre-pitch: 1.043 @ 74 degrees with the hydrometer calibrated for 60 degrees. Final TG 1.02 @ 68 degrees. I think that comes out to a ridiculously low ABV that seems WAY off. Even when temp corrected. In any case, it drinks like it's 5-6% abv and it's GREAT. Easily the best homebrew I've ever tasted. Hoppy, floral-fruit nose, drinks easily and we couldn't be happier with it. Thanks for the fantastic recipe!!! We'll be brewing this one again... :)

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