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Had my older brother compare the clone to the real thing. He liked my version better as it had a bit more residual sugar and made the bitterness less apparent. My next tweeks will be to use loose leaf hops for the dry hops to hopefully push up the hop character in the finish. Plus I'd drop the 80L Crystal malt back to 4 oz, or substitute 40L Crystal malt as the color has more of a copper hue than the commercial version. Will definitely make this one again (possibly next weekend) depending on when the grapes and buckets come in from Harford (I'm not expecting them for a few more weeks).