What is this beer?

Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:46 am

I am not sure what happened, but these are the ingredients I got to brew a beer. I may have been a little intoxicated when I bought them and I haven't brewed with extract for a couple years. The purpose of doing extract was some time constraints with my wife being pregnant at the time. Fast forward to now, the baby is 9 weeks old and I have 2 days off next week and I am left scratching my head on what I've got. I think it was supposed to be a Alt, but I didn't buy Munich extract, so what will this be? My guess would be that it will be copper or amber colored with German Hops and Yeast. Is there anything commercially that would be similar to this?

Ingredient Name Amount
Briess Sparkling Amber Liquid Extract 6 lbs, 0 oz
Briess Sparkling Amber Dry Extract 1 lbs, 0 oz
Weyermann Cara Munich II ® 1 lbs, 0 oz
Perle, GR Pellets 1 oz @ 60 mins
Perle, GR Pellets 1 oz @ 45 mins
Hersbrucker, German Pellets 1 oz @ 15 mins
White Labs Dusseldorf Alt 1 ea
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Re: What is this beer?

Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:44 am

Looks like Altbier to me
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Re: What is this beer?

Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:14 am

I guess if I read a little bit more on the style, then it is probably more of a Northern German Alt, versus a Dusseldorf. I was thinking that the lack of Munich would steer this away from being an Alt, but it looks like Northern German Alts could be made up of either Munich or Crystal, which I am assuming is what is in Sparkling Amber extract.

I think it will drink pretty well either way.
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