Izumidai
Member
anyone brew the Fat Tire clone from the december 2010 issue of BYO? How did it turn out? It sounds like a good recipe, but how authentic is it? Apparently it is from the brewery and the ingredients themselves match what is on the New Belgium website however the numbers dont seem to work out. I don't know how they are getting to 14SRM for the color with that recipe. Does anyone actually know what the SRM of fat tire is anyway?
Also, I saw some older articles from BYO with Peter Bouckeart (sp?) and he stated that they use up to 30% of the specialty malts for fat tire. The grain bill in the Dec issue does not work out to 30% of specialty malts.
If I enter the recipe into beersmith as is in BYO it works out to 9.7 SRM (i understand there may be slight variances from grain type). If I adjust the recipe to give me 14SRM here is what it gives me:
Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
7.79 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 73.74 %
1.07 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM) Grain 10.14 %
0.90 lb Munich 10L (Briess) (10.0 SRM) Grain 8.51 %
0.80 lb Victory Malt (25.0 SRM) Grain 7.61 %
0.40 oz Target [11.00 %] (60 min) Hops 19.7 IBU
0.50 oz Williamette [5.00 %] (10 min) Hops 2.2 IBU
0.50 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (0 min) Hops -
Certainly closer to the 30% specialty malt, but I haven't seen a fat tire in a while and am not sure if 14 is too dark.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Also, I saw some older articles from BYO with Peter Bouckeart (sp?) and he stated that they use up to 30% of the specialty malts for fat tire. The grain bill in the Dec issue does not work out to 30% of specialty malts.
If I enter the recipe into beersmith as is in BYO it works out to 9.7 SRM (i understand there may be slight variances from grain type). If I adjust the recipe to give me 14SRM here is what it gives me:
Ingredients:
------------
Amount Item Type % or IBU
7.79 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 73.74 %
1.07 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM) Grain 10.14 %
0.90 lb Munich 10L (Briess) (10.0 SRM) Grain 8.51 %
0.80 lb Victory Malt (25.0 SRM) Grain 7.61 %
0.40 oz Target [11.00 %] (60 min) Hops 19.7 IBU
0.50 oz Williamette [5.00 %] (10 min) Hops 2.2 IBU
0.50 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] (0 min) Hops -
Certainly closer to the 30% specialty malt, but I haven't seen a fat tire in a while and am not sure if 14 is too dark.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.