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Post by Alex Bullock on Dec 21, 2016 15:50:47 GMT -5
Name: AutumnFest Style: International Amber Lager Brewer: Christy ABV: 5.2% IBU: 20.2 SRM: 11.8 Post your comments below! Cheers!
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Post by Alex Bullock on Dec 21, 2016 17:41:46 GMT -5
I can see why this is an award winner! The aroma is of light toast and plum-like caramel malt. The beer is very clean with soft, grainy, plum like malt with a small amount of herbal/spicy hops to balance. Medium body with a medium-high carb and slightly bitter finish that cleans the palate and leaves you ready for another gulp. No off flavours that I can tell. Overall a very clean, pleasant and flavourful lager!
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Peter
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Post by Peter on Dec 21, 2016 18:27:18 GMT -5
I agree with Alex, this is a great lager. Rich and toasty, almost a perception of sweetness but then the hops come through to balance. Rich but not overly heavy so drinking more than one of these would be easy (maybe too easy!) It has a smooth finish typical of a lager. Nice job!
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Post by imaretiree on Dec 21, 2016 21:50:56 GMT -5
Some caramel and dried fruit aroma. I get some caramel and plum taste. Finishes fairly clean.I find most lagers boring....not this one. This would be a great beer with a turkey dinner.
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Post by denkneevee on Dec 21, 2016 22:28:07 GMT -5
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Post by denkneevee on Dec 21, 2016 22:32:07 GMT -5
Great lager Christy! Clean and well balanced beer. There is one fruity ester I keep on getting out of the aroma but I can't put my finger on it. Some type of fruit, not tropical. Did you add anything special? Maybe you don't want to give up you award winning secrets, that's ok too! Love the colour, we've tried a lager once since we started but it came out with a bad diaceytl taste. This one I can't find any off flavours. Head retention stays until the end. Good work! Ill have another.
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Post by Christy on Dec 22, 2016 8:18:52 GMT -5
Thanks everyone, especially Peter for your Oktoberfest recipe that this was based on!
Denny - no special ingredients, malts were Pilsner, Vienna and Munich (the last was LME since I can only do a partial mash) a bit of Caramunich III and a speck of honey malt, Hallertauer and Perle hops and Fermentis W-34/70 yeast (no starter, just rehydrated). The fruity ester has to be the yeast...it fermented nicely at 15C for 2 weeks, I let it warm up to 19C for a couple of days and then "lagered" in the secondary at 6C for 40 days. A bit warmer than recommended lagering temps but I didn't want to push my little cooler too much as its advertised low temp was 8C, but it was fine and I'd put it lower next time.
It's funny, I think I can detect a faint maple syrup aroma and flavour at times. It's also a bit under carbed, still fine-tuning my pressure to account for what's lost during bottling.
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Post by Stephen on Dec 24, 2016 21:15:55 GMT -5
Just realized I missed this one. Straight up I'm not the best judge of lager beers and I rarely drink them. So...my uneducated opinion is that this was great. I think what pulled it out of my distaste for lagers was the malt bill being a nice mix of some flavourful malts. Toasty towards a caramel forward taste with some dark fruits lingering behind. As with Tony my problem is I find lagers mostly boring as well (hence my love of Belgian/saison yeast) so the extra effort on the malts made it a great beer. Light hopping helped balance it and I found the carbonation worked just fine. Thanks for sharing Christy!!
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