I think it’s pretty cool when commercial breweries post clone recipes of their brews for homebrewers to try making at home. For example Avery Brewing Co posts quite a few of their recipes that can be accessed, no questions asked.
I was wondering if you guys knew of any other breweries that do something similar? Ideally, I want to write a post for HomebrewersAssociation.org that compiles some of these instances so they are all in one convenient place.
They don’t post their recipes online, but one of Fort Worth’s local breweries, Rahr and Sons, teams up with our LHBS to make clones of their beers. I have their Winter Warmer clone in the fermentor right now.
Stone vertical epics, deschutes has all the ingredients with none of the measurements, some will email over a brew log if requested (would need to scale down). I think it is getting harder as the industry is getting more competitive, especially beers of high regard.
The Brewing Network used to air a show called “Can you Brew it”. Not sure if there is a database of the recipes they got from brewers, I remember seeing some posted on other forums at one point. You could always listen to the shows I suppose.
There were a few BN forum members that put the effort into posting the recipes as they were read on air. I was always irritated that the BN didn’t simply post the recipes on the show page.
They would typically interview the brewer and get the recipe and process details directly from them. They would then scale the recipe to homebrew size, brew it, and do taste test with the commercial example to determine “cloned” or “not cloned”.
Some brewers give the full recipe minus their proprietary yeast, some give hints on some ingredients. Most give percentages when giving the recipe. Many name their hops and give IBUs, but dont give amounts or timing. The most thorough and open that I remember is John from rogue. Nothing to hide, but still n o t easy to pefectly clone I guess.
Recipes for a few Dogfish Head beers are in Sam’s homebrewing book - Extreme Brewing. A local shop that helped DFH get started sells kits for all of the recipes.