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Re: Sierra Nevada
« Reply #30 on: April 17, 2022, 12:46:37 pm »
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Re: Sierra Nevada
« Reply #31 on: April 18, 2022, 03:28:10 pm »
My experience with these clone recipes for PAs or IPAs is to increase the amount of hops by 50% or so. My theory is that commercial brewers have access to fresher hops than we homebrewers have. Once I started jacking up the hops I became way happy with my hoppier beers.

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Re: Sierra Nevada
« Reply #32 on: April 18, 2022, 04:50:56 pm »
My experience with these clone recipes for PAs or IPAs is to increase the amount of hops by 50% or so. My theory is that commercial brewers have access to fresher hops than we homebrewers have. Once I started jacking up the hops I became way happy with my hoppier beers.

Good info, thanks.  I have a couple of others I am going to try, but this one is on my list. 

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Re: Sierra Nevada
« Reply #33 on: May 18, 2022, 01:21:11 pm »
I've brewed the clone and as others said it's not even in the ballpark. Now a Cascade/Briess 2 row smash with the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale yeast fermented around 67F is really good!

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Re: Sierra Nevada
« Reply #34 on: May 18, 2022, 10:06:42 pm »
I've brewed the clone and as others said it's not even in the ballpark. Now a Cascade/Briess 2 row smash with the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale yeast fermented around 67F is really good!

Good to know.  I am hoping to have a crop of Cascade in the near future.  How much 2 row and cascade and when did you add?  Any info would be awesome as I can put it on my list of tries   

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Re: Sierra Nevada
« Reply #35 on: May 19, 2022, 08:31:07 am »
I've brewed the clone and as others said it's not even in the ballpark. Now a Cascade/Briess 2 row smash with the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale yeast fermented around 67F is really good!

Good to know.  I am hoping to have a crop of Cascade in the near future.  How much 2 row and cascade and when did you add?  Any info would be awesome as I can put it on my list of tries

Go find a recipe,called Nearly Nirvana.  It was a Big Brew recipe years ago.  As close to SNPA as you can get in homebrew.
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Re: Sierra Nevada
« Reply #36 on: May 19, 2022, 05:20:52 pm »
I've brewed the clone and as others said it's not even in the ballpark. Now a Cascade/Briess 2 row smash with the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale yeast fermented around 67F is really good!

Good to know.  I am hoping to have a crop of Cascade in the near future.  How much 2 row and cascade and when did you add?  Any info would be awesome as I can put it on my list of tries

Thanks Denny. 

Go find a recipe,called Nearly Nirvana.  It was a Big Brew recipe years ago.  As close to SNPA as you can get in homebrew.

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Re: Sierra Nevada
« Reply #37 on: May 19, 2022, 05:23:18 pm »
https://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-000767.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20101212112952/beerdujour.com/Recipes/ChrisFrey/Nearly_Nirvana_-_the_Original_Big_Brew_2000_Recipe.html

Does AHA still have the recipes from all the prior big beer days (and learn to brew days)?  Are they at the web site and I didn't see them?

Perfect.   Thank you sir.  I am going to try this one soo as I am wanting to expand my brews from just IPAs