Clones

[wgardner]

I did search the forum for something on this topic, but didn't find anything comprehensive so far..

When you guys have all these clones in your signiture, i.e. 'Summer lightning, old speckeled hen, badgers first, london pride mk2 etc, is their a collection of reciepies that you use to do these clones?

And am I right in thinking that these clones are not done through kits?

Would love to know, I'm a beginnner, just brewed my second ever batch, and am so addicted to it all, and find the 'cloning' concept very interesting.

[Mogwyth]

Two books:

Brew Your Own British Real Ale: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brew-Your-Briti ... 945&sr=1-1

Or for a more international take on things;

Clone Beers; http://www.amazon.co.uk/Clone-Brews-Hom ... 1580170773

[wgardner]

Great thanks for the links!

[chris_reboot]

or theres a recipes section on this site or hopandgrain.com also.

I'm currently working my way through the wheeler book (1st link) and would recommend that.

[thedeckking]

This website has a search to find a kit that people think tastes like the beer you're after. Not sure how acurate it is but might be worth a try:

Edit: Link removed in accordance with forum rule.

[sparky Paul]

This website has a search to find a kit that people think tastes like the beer you're after. Not sure how acurate it is but might be worth a try:
edit: link removed in accordance with forum rule.

Now that sounds a great idea to me, and I have made some passably close approximations to some commercial beers using kits as a base to work from. However, some of the suggestions look a bit suspect to me - I think some of the contributors should get out and drink a bit more beer. I just punched in 'Pedigree' to see if anything was suggested... and up popped 'Woodeforde's Wherry'...

Still it's a nice idea, and I could see it working if the suggestions could be ranked in order of 'votes'.

[mysterio]

You need to get into all-grain brewing, it's an easy process but somewhat time consuming (5 or 6 hours per batch), requires a little capital expenditure up front but once you're going it pays for itself, as ingredients are cheap. Click on the link at the top right for an overview of all-grain brewing.

A lot of recipes are guesswork, the Wheeler book posted above is a good starting point, as is a search on here, but the recipes will often require some tweaking before they're just right.

[wgardner]

Again thanks for the info. I think I'm going to keep with kit brewing for now until I move and have the room for the additional equipment needed for all grain... Also, I don't think I have the time or patience right now for the tweaking side of things, but would love to

[legion]

Hi wgardner,

Just noticed your signature

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1739&start=0&st=0&s ... hoegaarden is the hoegaarden thread

[boingy]

Alternatively you can just look in the recipe section of Jim's wiki.

What's that?? The wiki is not even started yet???? DOH!