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RahrBSG

September 2004

How can one little cone bring so much happiness? Professional brewers give their thoughts on hops and hoppy beers in our brewers’ roundtable. Plus, clone recipes to recreate your favorite commercial hoppy brews, including: Dogfish Head’s 90-minute IPA, AleSmith IPA, Three Floyd’s Dreadnaught, Hop Rod Rye, Racer 5 IPA, Russian River’s Pliny the Elder, Rogue Imperial IPA, Lagunitas IPA, Acme IPA, Elissa IPA, Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, Bell’s Two Hearted Ale and Stone Brewing’s Ruination IPA.

In this issue

  • article

    RIMS and HERMS

     By Bill Pierce
  • article

    Attack of the Hop Clones

    Homebrew India Pale Ale and Imperial India Pale Ale Clone Recipes

    Clone recipes to recreate your favorite commercial hoppy brews, including: Dogfish Head’s 90-minute IPA, AleSmith IPA, Three Floyd’s Dreadnaught, Hop Rod Rye, Racer 5 IPA, Russian River’s Pliny the Elder, Rogue Imperial IPA, Lagunitas IPA, Acme IPA, Elissa IPA, Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, Bell’s Two Hearted Ale and Stone Brewing’s Ruination IPA.

  • recipe

    Bell’s Brewery Two Hearted Ale clone

     By Chris Colby

    Bell’s flagship IPA is brewed with 100% Centennial hops from the Pacific Northwest and named after the Two Hearted River in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

  • recipe

    Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s Celebration clone

     By Chris Colby By Sean Z. Paxton

    First brewed in 1981, Sierra Nevada explains that Celebration Ale is one of the earliest examples of an American-style IPA, and it’s still one of the few hop-forward holiday beers. The intense, hop-heavy beer features Chinook, Centennial, and Cascade hops.

  • recipe

    Saint Arnold Brewing Co.’s Elissa IPA

     By Chris Colby

    “A traditional India Pale Ale, the Elissa IPA is very hoppy with a properly balanced malty body. Elissa has huge hop additions in the kettle that give it a wonderful bitterness and is then dry-hopped in the fermenter to create the pleasant floral, hoppy nose. Our reverse osmosis water makes the bitter very soft with no harsh notes to it. The maltiness is derived from British Maris Otter malt. Its rich flavor stands up to the hops that would otherwise dominate this beer. The Elissa is an authentic version of an India Pale Ale (IPA) style.”

  • recipe

    North Coast Brewing Co.’s Acme IPA clone

     By Chris Colby
  • recipe

    Lagunitas Brewing Company: Lagunitas IPA clone

     By Chris Colby

    The flagship IPA that Lagunitas built their brewing name on is a well-rounded West Coast IPA with lots of hop complexity and a solid malty balance.

  • recipe

    Rogue Ales: Imperial Pale Ale (I2PA) clone

     By Chris Colby

    Part of Rogue Ale’s XS series of beers, their I2PA features an intense hopping regiment and is aged for 9 months before leaving the brewery.

  • recipe

    Russian River Brewing Co.’s Pliny the Elder clone

     By Chris Colby

    Originally brewed to be part of a first-ever “Double IPA festival” back in 2000, Pliny has become the standard by which many modern double IPAs are measured. As with any hop-heavy beer, Pliny is best enjoyed fresh, while the massive hop aroma is at its peak.

  • recipe

    Bear Republic Brewing Company: Racer 5 IPA clone

     By Chris Colby

    This full-bodied West Coast IPA is one of America’s most medal-winning IPAs.

  • recipe

    Bear Republic Brewing Company: Hop Rod Rye clone

    This high-gravity IPA is brewed with 18% rye malt and has a floral hop aroma and caramel notes.

  • recipe

    Three Floyds Brewing Company: Dreadnaught clone

     By Chris Colby

    This unforgettable imperial IPA features an intense citrus hop aroma and a huge malt body.

  • recipe

    Alesmith Brewing Company: Alesmith IPA clone

     By Chris Colby

    This well-balanced West Coast IPA is a San Diego classic that is filled with aromas of grapfruit and tangerine, fresh pine, and tropical fruit.

  • recipe

    Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: 90-Minute IPA clone

     By Chris Colby

    90 Minute IPA was the first beer that Dogfish Head brewed using their continuous hopping technique of adding hops throughout the boil. Esquire magazine has called it “perhaps the best IPA in America.”

  • recipe

    Old Soldier Ale

     By BYO Staff

    The name of this beer commemorates the fact that this is being written on the 60th anniversary of D-Day.

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    Add citrus flavor to beer

     By Ashton Lewis
  • Orange question mark over a beer Mr. Wizard logo.
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    Dried vs liquid malt extract

     By BYO Staff
  • project

    Build a Hop Transducer

     By BYO Staff

    What is this thing that Dogfish Head Brewing has unleashed? Here’s how to build the ultimate serving gadget for hopheads!

  • article

    Brewing English-Style Bitter: Tips from the Pros

     By BYO Staff

    Two "ordinary" brewers discuss the best in their bitters.

  • article

    A Brewer’s Roundtable — The Pros Talk Shop About Hops

     By BYO Staff

    How can one little cone bring so much happiness? Professional brewers give their thoughts on hops and hoppy beers in our brewers’ roundtable. Pull up a seat and join the discussion.

  • article

    Practical Approaches to Controlling Bitterness in Homebrews

     By Steve Holle

    Your brewing calculator says your beer will be 45.27 IBUs….but will it? How will you know? What you need to know to make sense of bitterness calculations and hit your target bitterness consistently.

  • article

    Old Ales

     By Terry Foster

    From 19th-Century England to today, a new look at old ales. You’re not Peculier if you want to learn about this style of beer. Plus: two old ale recipes