Festbier BierMuncher's OktoberFAST Ale (AG)

[Stevo2569]

Brewed this today and my efficiency was great 1.060 preboil if it finishes up as good as the wort tasted its a Winner for sure Thanks BierMuncher your Recipies :rockin:

You must know a really big women to be able to get panties big enough to make a tent out of.

 

[toolboxdiver]

You must know a really big women to be able to get panties big enough to make a tent out of.

LMAO used to but she left me

 

[IndyRob]

Gonna go for round two of this beer for it's second anniversary appearance in my house. This time I have an all-electric kettle with a thermocouple so no more missed temps from crappy meat thermometers, a controlled fermentation environment so no more fermentation's at 80 degrees and higher and finally, I am grinding my own grains at home. If I fudge this one up then I really do suck.

 

[JonClayton]

Glad to see everyone enjoying this recipe, I am really excited as well! Can anyone give me feed back on how quickly krausen dropped?

 

[CorneliusAlphonse]

finally brewed this... hit a mash temp of 156, but it was my first all grain using my cooler, and it didn't hold heat well - dropped to 150 by the end of the hour. hit good mashout temp, boil went perfectly. cooled with a great cold break... but the only yeast i have is nottingham.

i predict this will taste much less malty than i hoped for! oh well!

 

[Brewenstein]

i predict this will taste much less malty than i hoped for! oh well!

I wouldn't so sure of that. A lot of the "maltiness" comes from the grain and the hopping rate, not the FG. It will probably be a little drier than with the S-04, but it will still be good.

I am brewing this on Sunday, and I plan to use US-05. I will mash on the high side, and the FG may be lower than BM's, but I am still expecting a great brew :rockin:.

 

[rwagner23]

Going to try this, but it will only be about four weeks from grain to glass. *crosses fingers*

 

[Sarge]

I know it has been well over a year but does anyone know how Slowfro and IPAAAA carb levels finished at? I know I need more time but my 1 week and 2 week tastes have very little carbonation and no head whatsoever. I did get a pssst when I opened a bottle and it tastes really good.

 

[wsgbane]

This intrigues me. I feel that in cooking, simpler recipes often produce the best results. Why should brewing be any different?

Using the percentages you've used above, I tried to build a 5 gallon PM recipe that I'd like to get your opinion on. The percentages aren't spot on, but they are very close.

Fermentables
3lbs Light DME
2lbs Vienna
1.5lbs Munich 20L
1lb Caramunich II
.25lb Carapils

Hops
1oz Tettnang @ 60min
.5oz Tettnang @ 45min
.5oz Tettnang @ 30min

Yeast
S-04 (although I'm strongly considering US-05)

OG: 1.052
IBU: 21.5
SRM: 12

What do you think?

I plan to use this recipe using the US-05 as you suggested. Thanks for giving us your results!

 

[agenthucky]

It really hurts me that people are calling this an octoberfest.

 

[rwagner23]

It really hurts me that people are calling this an octoberfest.

Get over it. I know it isn't an Octoberfest, but hell it will do in a pinch.

 

[agenthucky]

Get over it. I know it isn't an Octoberfest, but hell it will do in a pinch.

You can't call a duck a swan, it's a duck. No matter how much you want to look at a swan, it's just a duck.

I have no problem with the recipe, I understand the time length and even will give credit to calling it an oktoberFAST ALE, but all the descriptions and tasting opinions saying it's the best octoberfest, or a delicious octoberfest...IT'S JUST A DUCK

And you wouldn't taste an amber ale and say it's a great vienna lager. No matter how good it is.

 

[SenorPepe]

Why bother with posts like that? It's clearly labeled ale and as you mentioned even mispells oktoberfest to get the point across. If it "really hurts you" choose a real marzen recipe.

 

[agenthucky]

Why bother with posts like that? It's clearly labeled ale and as you mentioned even mispells oktoberfest to get the point across. If it "really hurts you" choose a real marzen recipe.

If you say why bother with posts like that then you can also say why bother to call it an octoberfest when referring to it.

It's not mispelled.

And why bother? Because it's the internet, and is no bother. Absolutly none. And in the larger picture, the lengths one has to go through to get an authentic oktoberfest because of the crap being sold to the public is so far disconnected to the original style that it's down right becoming extinct and replaced with crappy fruity carmel beers. That's my point. It can be good, you can love it, but you cannot say it is something it is not. Just because you decided you want something but don't want to do what's necessary to get it. You've changed the product. In no other category would one call a lager an ale. Not one. They are miles apart. What if Dogfish Head filled all their bottles of 60 minute with a light lager?

This recipe actually looks pretty good (minus the cara-pils). I'd consider it if I wanted an english amber

 

[SenorPepe]

Dude, calling an ale recipe that mocks the flavors of a marzen an OktoberFAST ALE is zero percent like passing off a light lager as DFH 60. Also when I was talking about spelling I was referring to OktoberFAST being a "misspelling" of oktoberfest.

 

[agenthucky]

Dude, calling an ale recipe that mocks the flavors of a marzen an OktoberFAST ALE is zero percent like passing off a light lager as DFH 60. Also when I was talking about spelling I was referring to OktoberFAST being a "misspelling" of oktoberfest.

but what if it was a hoppy light lager?

 

[Soulshine]

Okay. So I really screwed up. Still learning this whole thing. I ordered this recipe for 15 gallons and it is "All Grain" which I did not realize what I was getting into. I brew with my friend and he said we are not equipped to do all grain we normally do partial with extracts. We only have a 15 gallon pot, no false bottom, etc. I do have a 27 gallon conical fermentor. I doubt the company will take all the grains back. Any suggestions or reccomendations. Talk about a big screw up. Any help much appreciated.

 

[JeepDiver]

Go get a voile curtain and look up brew in a bag (BIAB) if you only have a 15 gallon pot you can't do a full volume mash or boil so you will have to adjust your hop schedule for a partial boil.

It will work better If you get the curtain sewn into a bag but you can make it work if your careful.

 

[Supergus]

Ok, I did this brew a little over 2 weeks ago, and the starting gravity was 1.064
I just did my second gravity reading in the last two days and it is steady at 1.021
Any idea why my #'s are so far off? I took the orig. recipe and just cut every thing in half, I was a bit high on my mash temp though. I did a sample taste and it tasted really good, so I went ahead and racked to my keg.
I can only imagine it getting better with age/carbonation. I am hoping this will be ready in a couple of weeks for my 11th wedding anniversary.

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[agenthucky]

Go get a voile curtain and look up brew in a bag (BIAB) if you only have a 15 gallon pot you can't do a full volume mash or boil so you will have to adjust your hop schedule for a partial boil.

It will work better If you get the curtain sewn into a bag but you can make it work if your careful.

curtain?

 

[CrookedTail]

I plan to use this recipe using the US-05 as you suggested. Thanks for giving us your results!

No problem! I've brewed a few batches since (with some minor modifications.) One was served at my friend's wedding last weekend. It was a huge hit.

I have two more batches aging right now. I plan on having them in a few weeks. It's a great recipe.

One thing though, you can stick with the S-04. When I gave the initial review of it, the beer was still a little green. Another week or two worked wonders on it. I know Biermuncher says to age it at least 6 weeks. And while the result after that time is quite good, I'd personally recommend 8 weeks. It really was excellent after that point.

 

[Steelers77]

I just brewed this yesterday, hit 1.052. Wort tasted malty and wonderful. I did make a few minor adjustments, I used Saphir hops because we just got them and I really wanted to try them and I added .25lb of special roast to increase the bready/biscuiut flavor. A minor adjustment but I think it added just a little something extra. It is fermenting nicely at 60 with S-04. Will update in the future.

 

[imrook]

Go get a voile curtain and look up brew in a bag (BIAB) if you only have a 15 gallon pot you can't do a full volume mash or boil so you will have to adjust your hop schedule for a partial boil.

In addition to the lower hop utilization, you won't get very good efficiency as a conventional batch sparged mash would use somewhere around 23-24 gallons of water. If you want to get near your targets, check with the BIAB folks about the efficiency you can expect with that volume of grain and water.

Another option you have is to mix the grains throughly and do 2 7.5 gallon batches. This would allow you to use the correct mash/sparge volumes and get full hop utilization, but of course would require twice the amount of work.

 

[imrook]

I brewed 6.5 gallons of this yesterday. Subbed Carvienne for the Crystal 20L as my LHBS didn't have Crystal 20. Mashed at 156. Repitched 2 cups of S-04 from a previous batch. I put my fermenter in a cooler of cold water to keep the temp under control, but when I checked on it last night, The cooler was leaking water all over the floor. I didn't have time to find out where the leak was. It's now fermenting at 74 F, so we'll see how well it turns out.

 

[imrook]

I think I have come up with a solution for my temperature problem: I put my fermenter inside my brew kettle and filled it with cold water and a bit of ice. That should allow me to get and keep the temp down in the low 60s.

 

[ila970josh]

Hello All, I just placed an order for the ingredients for this beer, I was wondering if it would be ok to dump this on top of a yeast cake of us-05 from a Amarillo and Centennial IPA, Thanks

 

[jww9618]

Hello All, I just placed an order for the ingredients for this beer, I was wondering if it would be ok to dump this on top of a yeast cake of us-05 from a Amarillo and Centennial IPA, Thanks

I would wash that yeast instead of pitching on the cake. You're going to have a bunch of hop trub that you don't really want getting in this beer.

 

[ila970josh]

I was thinking that and I've never washed yeast before, I've got a pack of us-05 and us-04 coming with my order, I'll just pitch one of those. Thanks for the reply

 

[txcop]

I brewed this back on August 30 and my OG was spot on. It was in the first fermenter for 5 day before the wild fires in Texas made me evacuate my house. We lost power on that day and not sure how hot my house got but we were out of power till the Sept 12. I racked into the secoundary on Sept 17 and FG was at 1.008, will that mess with the beer too much.

thanks, txcop

 

[cadarnell]

i just bottled this and man it tasted great going in .. OG was 1052 FG was 1018 ... my IBUs were 28 and i think it's really going to offset the high FG sweetness ... will be hard to wait a few weeks to crack on open ... i probably wont .. haha .. thanks for the recipe !!