Brewing a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone from the Clone Brews book

Most breweries talk about the brewing industry being a collaborative environment and say they support the home brewing community. Some breweries take that a step further and actually publish home brew clone recipes for their commercial beers. All commercial brewers started off as home brewers, so it’s really nice when they give back to the community. I’ve brewed a couple clone recipes from this Clone Brews book and The Craft of Stone Brewing. It’s a great way to help dial in your process since you have a commercial example to compare against. The Clone Brews book is great but getting a recipe straight from the source is even better. I compiled this list of clone recipes that I rounded up. I found the majority of them via this Homebrewers Association page. Please post a comment if you know of others and I’ll add them to the list.

Anderson Valley

Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout

Avery

IPA
White Rascal Belgian Wheat
Ellie’s Brown Ale
Out of Bounds Stout
Joe’s Pilsner
Hog Heaven Dry-Hopped Barleywine Style Ale
The Reverend Belgian Style Quadrupel Ale
Salvation Belgian Golden Ale
New World Porter
Karma Belgian Pale Ale
Old Jubilation Ale
The Kaiser Imperial Oktoberfest
The Czar Imperial Stout
The Maharaja Imperial IPA

Elysian

The Wise

Gigantic

Gigantic IPA

Jester King

Black Metal Imperial Stout
Commercial Suicide Dark Mild
Wytchmaker Rye IPA

Mad Tree

Happy Amber
Psychopathy IPA
Gnarly Brown
Lift
Identity Crisis
Galaxy High
Axis Mundi
Sprye
Sol Drifter
The Great Pumpcan
Thundersnow
Misnomer
Flight of Simcoe
Gnarly Brown Vanilla
Ye Olde Battering Ram
Dead Flowers
Pilgrim Pale Ale
Un-happy Amber
Rubus Cacao

Modern Times

Blazing World
Fortunate Islands
Black House
Lomaland
Oneida
City of the Sun
Sleepless City
Neverwhere
Roraima
Southern Lands
Lost Horizon

Stone

Vertical Epic (’02-’12)
Pale Ale (slightly different recipe from BYO Magazine)
IPA
Ruination IPA
Smoked Porter
Imperial Russian Stout
Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout (12th Anniversary Beer)
Levitation

Bonfire

Brush Creek Blonde
Firestarter IPA
Mistress Winter Wheat
Kindler Pale Ale

Ballast Point

Homework Series #4: Pumpkin Ale
Homework Series #3: English-Style IPA
Homework Series #2: Belgian-Style Double IPA
Homework Series #1: Hoppy Red Ale

Some other breweries have published an ingredients list, which is a good start, but a home brewer is left to guess what quantity of each ingredient to use. Others sell kits through Northern Brewer, which of course come with recipes.

Northern Brewer

Dry Dock
Surly
Lakefront
Tallgrass
Town Hall

Ingredients Only

Deschutes
Village
Ranger Creek
Terrapin
Lakefront