CloneBrews Oktober Fest Marzen recipe

[MizooBrew]

Alright, so a few days ago I obtained a small Kirkland Signature chest freezer to be used for controlling the temps of my brews, as I am now living in an apartment which gets pretty hot occasionally. I currently have a Requiem Rasberry (thanks to eschatz) sitting in there, fermenting at 73 F.
However, I am most excited to finally be able to make lagers with a well controlled temp. I intend to make an Oktoberfest as my first ever lager, and probably a Bock of some sort for my second. Any great Oktoberfest recipes would be appreciated, although I do not have the equipment to do an all grain recipe. I am currently looking at a clone recipe from CloneBrews for an Ayinger Oktober Fest-Marzen, has anyone had experience with this clone recipe? If not, what other recipes should I be considering?
MizooBrew

Here is the CloneBrews recipe:
6.6 lb Muntons light DME
8 oz Belgian Cara-Munich malt
8 oz German dark Munich malt
3 oz 65L German dark crystal malt
6 oz maltodextrin
1.4 oz Tettanger @ 5% AA (60 min)
0.5 oz German Hallertau Hersbrucker (10 min)
Wyeast 2308 Munich Lager
or
Wyeast 2633 Octoberfest Lager Blend

 

[infection]

this is a good listen before brewing an ofest:
http://s125483039.onlinehome.us/archive/Jamil03-27-06.mp3

 

[boo boo]

I haven't made a clone brew recipe from either of the two books that came out like I expected them to. They were nothing like what they were supposed to be like.

However Brewing Classic Styles recipies were awesome.

 

[Ender]

+1000 to BCS 'fest

 

[MizooBrew]

Yeah... I was somewhat skeptical about the recipe as well. Are there any good traditional oktoberfest recipes online?

 

[MizooBrew]

I haven't made a clone brew recipe from either of the two books that came out like I expected them to. They were nothing like what they were supposed to be like.

However Brewing Classic Styles recipies were awesome.

Yeah... I was somewhat skeptical about the recipe as well. Are there any good traditional oktoberfest recipes online?

 

[markg388]

homebrewers usually make german beer recipes too complicated. authentic o-fest recipes look like this...

OG of 1.052 - 1.056 or so
The grist can be pretty much any combination of german basemalts (pilsner, vienna, munich) + 5-7% caramunich.
Hops are a single bittering addition of any noble hop roughly in the 21-26 IBU range.

Ferment w/ your favorite lager yeast and enjoy. Do a lot of reading about the ins and outs of lager fermentation, that is by far the most important thing to your beer coming out right.