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Hello All,

I'm currently trying to create a recipe for a Garrison Lil' Juicy clone and I'm looking for recommendations to the following so far:

Vitals
Original Gravity: 1.060
Final Gravity: 1.013
IBU (Tinseth): 22
BU/GU: 0.36
Colour: 4 SRM

Malts (5.45 kg)
4.45 kg (81.7%) — Canada Malting CMC 2 Row — Grain — 1.9 °L
1 kg (18.4%) — Canada Malting Co Oat Malt — Grain — 2.6 °L

Hops (285 g)
30 Min Boil Addition
- 20 g (16.8 IBU) - Comet 9.5%
20 min hopstand
- 50 g (10 IBU) — Mosaic 12.25%
- 20 g (4 IBU) — Citra 12%
- 20 g (3 IBU) — Comet 9.5%
- 20 g (4 IBU) — Simcoe 13%

Dry Hop Day 3
- 25 g — Mosaic 12.25%
- 15 g — Citra 12%
- 15 g — Comet 9.5%
- 15 g — Simcoe 13%

Dry Hop Day 5
- 50 g — Mosaic 12.25%
- 20 g — Citra 12%
- 20 g — Comet 9.5%
- 15 g — Simcoe 13%

Yeast
1 pkg — Lallemand (LalBrew) New England 78%

Looks like a good starting point tbh

I'm fermenting this at 20c for 14 days. Should I do a 3 day ramp up to 23 for a diacetyl rest?

At 20c for 14 days, I don't think you need one for this.

Changed the fermentation schedule a little bit... Went for:

7 days @ 20. (fermentation stopped at day 6)
3 day ramp up to 23
2 day cold crash

Kegged and conditioned for 7 days at 12 PSI.

First impressions on this young beer is that it is very close to the real thing. 1 week longer in the keg and it will lose the "young taste" and would be an almost exact replica to my pallet.

Can stand to carbonate a little bit more to get that thicker head. It's kinda thin at the moment, but a week from now or will be a VERY good beer!

Feel free to try it on your own and let me know how it turns out.

I'm the picture mine is on the right and Little Juicy is on the left.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/HPbVhr5X4CCXPLoM9

Looks good! They are more or less identical in colour.
I'm planning to do a similar pale ale with only whirlpool and dry hops soon.