Oktoberfest Style Ale Recipe

[adagiogray]

Good luck - I still have a couple weeks to go til my primary's freed up - can't wait to taste this though!

 

[thomismydad]

2 weeks in the bottle, tastes great. Excellent aroma, perfect maltiness. Thanks for the recipe.

 

[adagiogray]

2 weeks in the bottle, tastes great. Excellent aroma, perfect maltiness. Thanks for the recipe.

Nice to hear! I added 4 oz of chocolate malt to my Belgian - it imparted more of a stoutish flavor and darker color than I thought it would. I'm glad I didn't use any more than that! I just bottled it, freeing up the primary bucket. I left it in the primary the whole time - who needs a stinkin' secondary?

Now I'm debating giving this one a go or going for a Great Lakes Christmas Ale clone. Hrm.

 

[ScottRMitch]

Brewed this recipe today, my first partial mash so I'm pretty excited.

 

[dirtygreek]

I think the sub-title on my bottles will be:

I wanted be an Oktoberfest, but instead of being brewed in Germany (by a German) during the month of March then cold-stored in some cave only to be drank during fall festivals (by Germans)...some inconsiderate English-German-Norweigan-Swiss-Scottish bloke brewed me in Wisconsin...and with an ale yeast! The nerve!!!

Ha. I'm doing something similar, but mine would be "inconsiderate Greek-Scotch-Irish bloke." Otherwise, an "Oktoberfest Style Ale" is the first beer I ever brewed several years ago. I liked it quite a lot, so now that I know what I'm doing more than I did then, I'm trying again. Different recipe, but similar enough.

 

[sptaylor70]

I brewed this a couple of months ago at half scale. Four weeks in the bottle and it tastes wonderful. I'll brew it again, with a little tweaking (e.g. exchange the pale malt for more Munich), and try Wyeast 2112 California Lager to make it less ale-like. Good recipe.