Weyermann Isaria 1924 - German Altbier

[BugAC]

Formulating a recipe right now for a german alt. I was looking into using Weyermann's Isaria 1924 for the base malt. Anyone have any experience with this malt in any style? Curious of the flavor it imparts.

Current recipe:

68% Isaria
15% Barke Munich
13% Caramunich III
3% Carahell

 

[jdauria]

I have used it once in a Kolsch. It's a little malty sweet with a hint of biscuit in aroma. Kolsch came out real nice.

Your recipe looks good, but if I can give one tip. A friend of mine use to kill it in competitions with his Alt. When he would bring it to club meetings, we would fight over sitting next to him to get first crack at his growler of it. He's a pro brewer now and when he made it at the brewery, the whole club showed up that night and drank a massive amount of it. Anyway, his "secret ingredient" that he swears by is Cologne Malt at around 15%, in place of the base Pilsner malt.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Current recipe:

68% Isaria
15% Barke Munich
13% Caramunich III
3% Carahell

You might want to take a look at this thread on alt recipes, they're typically a lot simpler than that (at least in Germany) - pilsner, maybe 10% Munich, definitely no crystal, maybe a little something for colour.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/what-is-alt-beer.33694/page-2#post-9185386

 

[BugAC]

You might want to take a look at this thread on alt recipes, they're typically a lot simpler than that (at least in Germany) - pilsner, maybe 10% Munich, definitely no crystal, maybe a little something for colour.

I read through and made a few changes. I'm always trying to use the newest or most unique thing when i brew a new beer, rather than going traditional. I need to start off traditional when brewing classic styles for the first time. I scrapped the 1924. Still playing around with the recipe but for now i have:

88% Barke Pilsner
4.5% Barke Munich
3% Carahell
2.2% Midnight Wheat
1.7% Acid Malt

Shooting for around 40 IBU's, OG 1.048. Horchkurz Step Mash (Beta Rest @ 146 for 40 min, alpha rest @ 160 for 40 minutes, no mash out). Color is at 12.8 SRM.