Resilience IPA Clone(ish)

As a general rule, I don't brew clone beers. 

However, late in the year, the "Camp Fire" devastated Northern California and it hit close to home for Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. While the brewery was spared, many of Sierra Nevada’s employees, patrons and neighbors lost everything as the Camp Fire ravaged northern Californian.

To help raise much needed support for the recovery efforts, Sierra Nevada created a beer called Resilience IPA. Sierra Nevada, along with many of its professional brewing peers, brewed and sold Resilience IPA with all proceeds donated to the Sierra Nevada Camp Fire Relief Fund through Golden Valley Community Bank Foundation.

On the AHA Website, they posted a clone recipe for Sierra Nevada Resilience IPA, and wrote: 

"It is our hope that homebrewers will make a batch of Resilience IPA in solidarity with Sierra Nevada and pro breweries across the country. While we can’t sell our creations and donate the proceeds, please consider donating to the Golden Valley Community Bank Foundation if you are able."

I felt this was a pretty good reason to make an exception to my policy of not making clone beers.

The only modifications that I made to this beer were to adjust for my brewing system.

The beer is an old-school West-Coast IPA. Lots of cascade and centennial gragpefruit hops. Nice firm bitterness. Gold colored. Wonderful beer.

It does taste close to the versions I've had of Resilience from local breweries. 

I feel like this would be a great camping beer. Too bad I brewed it during the winter. Perhaps I'll brew it again during camping season. 

For more on this beer, see Sheppy's Blog: Resilience