I stole this recipe from a recent BruSho episode. I was a little reluctant to brew it since commercially I haven’t found many examples of an altbier I liked. This particular recipe is solid though and makes a perfect fall or winter style beer. I fermented with Kaiser at 70F which is 10F warmer than recommended, and it definitely threw some esters. Because of that, the beer is less cleanly lager-like and something between an altbier and an english brown ale. Despite that I prefer this beer to other english brown ales and brown porters I’ve done in the past and I now have a couple of ideas to make those beers better. As for this beer, I’ll probably make changes to better suite my palate, which is to say cleaner with less caramel.
I stole this recipe from a recent BruSho episode. I was a little reluctant to brew it since commercially I haven’t found many examples of an altbier I liked. This particular recipe is solid though and makes a perfect fall or winter style beer. I fermented with Kaiser at 70F which is 10F warmer than recommended, and it definitely threw some esters. Because of that, the beer is less cleanly lager-like and something between an altbier and an english brown ale. Despite that I prefer this beer to other english brown ales and brown porters I’ve done in the past and I now have a couple of ideas to make those beers better. As for this beer, I’ll probably make changes to better suite my palate, which is to say cleaner with less caramel.