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My first attempt at cloning Georgetown Brewing's Manny's Pale Ale was a dismal failure. It was a drinkable beer, but not pale in color and nothing like a pale ale in flavor. The second version was more like a pale ale in flavor, but still a touch dark in its color. The family member who loves the real beer says this version is too "malty" (which I'm interpreting as the beer having too much Caramel malt or too dark of a Caramel malt). In this version, I'm switching from Caramel 60L to Caramel 40L and decreasing the proportion of the Caramel malt in the recipe. Ingredients 2 pounds 2-row Pale Ale Malt 2 pounds 13 ounces 2-row Brewer's Malt 5 ounces Crystal 40L Malt 0.25 ounces of Summit hops pellets @ 17.5% AA (30 min.) 0.35 ounces of Cascade hops pellets @ 6.9% AA (20 min.) 0.45 ounces of Cascade hops pellets @ 6.9% AA (10 min.) 0.45 ounces of Cascade hops pellets @ 6.9% AA (5 min.) 1/4 tsp. Yeast Nutrient 1/2 tsp. Irish Moss 1 packet Wyeast 1...

My first attempt to clone this beer was a dismal failure.  For this version, I decided to dig through the clone recipes I could find online. As with many clone recipes you encounter, most of them contained no images of the finished beer, no indication of whether the beer had ever been brewed, and no reviews indicating how it compared to the original. I finally settled on a recipe on one of the home brew forums which did actually have tasting notes under it, from someone who had reportedly done a side-by-side test against the real beer.  I had all the ingredients on hand and put them to work last night. Ingredients 4 pounds 2-row Pale Malt (75% of the grist) 12 ounces of Crystal 40L Malt (14% of the grist) 2 ounces of Crystal 60L Malt (2%, because I had some lying around to use up) 7 ounces Cara-pils/Dextrine Malt (8% of the grist) 0.3 ounces of Summit hops @ 16.7% AA (60 min.) 0.25 ounces of Cascade hops @ 6.9% AA (15 min.) 0.45 ounces of Cascade ho...

The real Manny's Pale Ale from Georgetown Brewing in Seattle One of my relatives spent time in Seattle and fell in love with Georgetown Brewing's Manny's Pale Ale . Now that he is here in Central Ohio, he can't get the beer anymore. I thought it would be nice to try to brew a clone of the beer for him. I started with a visit to the Georgetown web site, which yielded the following information: 2-row Pale malt and Caramel malt are used Summit and Cascade hops are used Original gravity is 1.051 SG Final gravity is 1.009 SG ABV is 5.4% IBU rating is: 38 English Ale yeast is used For the next step, I formulated a tentative recipe based on the image of the beer on their web site and the above information. I asked the brewery by email if the brewers would offer any advice.  All I learned was that they recommended using the Wyeast 1275 Thames Valley ale yeast . Searching on the web, there are various forum posts out there that suggest possible clone recipe...