Recipes
Full Sail Brewing Company Amber Ale clone
Full Sail’s flagship amber ale has earned the brewery multiple awards, including more than 20 gold medals. It is a sweet, malty, medium-bodied ale with a spicy, floral hop finish.
Triple Rock Brewery’s Dragon’s Milk Brown Ale clone
An English brown ale with enough hop bite to balance the malt backbone.
Long Trail Brewing Co.’s Double Bag Alt clone
A German Style Alt. Long Trail Brewing Co. describes this beer on it’s website, “This double altbier features a distinct malt presence balanced by a subtle hop backbone that delivers a smooth, complex drinking experience. At 7.2 percent alcohol by volume, this is one brew worth milking.”
Iron Horse: Brown Ale clone
This recipe has since been retired, but recipe provides a classic American-style brown ale.
Elk Grove Brewery and Restaurant: Otis Alt clone
This beer should be bitter and have a nice “Spalty” nose to it. But to keep the hops from overwhelming the palate the malt has to come through as well. The roasty undertones of the Munich and Vienna malts complement the aggressiveness of the hops very well.
— Bill Wood, Brewmaster
Bell’s Brewery Best Brown Ale clone
A smooth, toasty brown ale. Aromas of caramel and cocoa.
Carolina Brewing Co.’s Nut Brown Ale clone
According to Carolina Brewing Co., “A medium bodied, dark brown ale with a complex chocolatey, toasted malt taste. It has a dry finish that makes it distinct from some of the sweeter brown ales. We use five different types of malted barley to give the beer its color and variety of malt flavors.”
Capital Brewery: Brown Ale clone
This brown ale (now retired) out of Middleton, Wisconsin is clear and dark amber color with a solid, malty backbone.
Tommyknocker Brewery: Imperial Nut Brown Ale
This rich ale gets its complexity from pure maple syrup as well as chocolate and crystal malts.
Abita Brewing Company Turbodog
Turbodog, one of Abita’s flagship brews, is a dark brown ale with a rich body and a sweet, toffee-like flavor.
Dogfish Head Craft Brewing: Indian Brown clone
This dark IPA is available year-round and is dry hopped similarly to Dogfish Head’s 60 Minute and 90 Minute IPAs. It is roasty, with a mild hop bitterness.
Newcastle Brown Ale clone
Newcastle Brown Ale is actually a blend of two beers. Brewers blend a strong, dark ale that has been aged and a smaller, younger amber ale. As a consequence, this average-strength brown ale shows some plum and raisin characteristics more frequently encountered in an old ale. You can try to make the blended version and those instructions can be found in the May/June 2006 issue. Here is a more simplified single batch version.
