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.

Dry Dock

Surly

Lakefront

Tallgrass

Town Hall

Ingredients Only

Deschutes

Village

Ranger Creek

Terrapin

Lakefront

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