Clough made over 300 appearances for Forest in the early years of his playing career but masterminded their downfall at the Pirelli Stadium.
Liam Boyce wasted a golden chance to give League One Burton a half-time lead but blazed his penalty well over the bar and into the travelling Forest fans, who have long revered the Clough family.
It felt as though that could have been the one moment, the one opportunity for Burton and they had squandered it.
But instead it seemed only to spur them on even more and Clough must have said all the right things at the break.
Because Scott Fraser's deflected strike, officially an own goal by Saidy Janko, opened the scoring for the hosts soon after half-time.
After a swift counter, Fraser let fly but appeared to slice the ball wide until an almighty stroke of luck saw the ball loop past a helpless Luke Steele in the Forest net.
And Fraser was adamant it was his goal. He deserved it for his Man of the Match performance.
Speaking to Sky Sports, he said: “Ah no, the first goal is definitely mine! It’s definitely not an own goal!"
There was no chance of taking his second goal away from the midfielder, though, as the ball broke to him on the edge of the area.
He powered through and slotted calmly past Steele – the Brewers were in dreamland.
But their lead was halved with 20 minutes to go when substitute Lewis Grabban raced through and clipped over Burton 'keeper Dimitar Evtimov.
Aitor Karanka's side were suddenly back in the game having looked a certainty to be going out.
Jake Hasketh had other ideas.
Fraser this time tuned provider, chipping the ball across goal where the on-loan Southampton star lashed a sweet volley into the back of the net at the back post.
Arvin Appiah's injury time finish on his Nottingham Forest debut tested the Burton players' bottle and fans' nerves.
But they held on for six long stoppage-time minutes to record an historic win.
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