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Help identifying a beer and following through with a recipe (Marzen)


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#41 Big Nake

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Posted 16 August 2017 - 03:10 PM

I looked for some clone recipes and found very little that would be trustworthy. There is THIS but some of the recipes on that site have not been that well-developed. IIRC this beer is amberish and it looks like it might get its color from Munich 2 and maybe some CaraMunich although that would be unusual for a German brewery. Maybe Munich 2/pils and a small amount of carafa 3 which would give it some depth of color and eventually bring out some slight red (which I feel is accurate for this beer). Noble hops at the beginning of the boil and then maybe for 20 or 15 with total IBUs around 25. Yeast is a toss-up. The recipe I linked to calls for WLP820 which I have never used so I can't comment on it. I heard 820 was not easy to brew with... finicky, it wants to drop out and underattenuate, etc.

From White Labs:

This yeast produces a very malty, bock-like beer. It does not finish as dry as WLP830. It’s much slower in the first generation than WLP830, so we encourage using a larger starter during the first generation or scheduling a longer lagering time.


I would probably do a 2L starter on it and make sure it's good and active. Then I would be patient and rouse things occasionally until it got going and then I would also make sure to take it out of the cool spot after 5 days of relatively vigorous fermentation and then rouse it some more until it was done.


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