True To Style – All Grain Recipe Kits #18 – Altbier

These all grain kits are all designed with one thing in mind, making great tasting beer at affordable prices. We’ve built and created this range to offer our first “core” range of all grain kits that represent either great ingredients, methods or beer styles which we adore.

All of them are 23 litre batches and come in at sensible strengths for the mid week beers or sessions at the weekend! Read our full blog post on this range here!

A very old style of beer which is of German origin. Clean and full of character from the malt bill used, dark and bready with slight hoppy spice and floral touches. Slight sweetness is brought from the Caramunich but with a firm bitterness to finish the beer on the palette leaving you wanting to come back for more and more.

Ingredients Included

Weyermann Carafa Special type 2
Weyermann CaraMunich Type 3
Dingemans Aromatic Malt
Simpsons Malt – Munich Malt
Simpsons Malt – Finest Lager Malt
Tettnang Tettnanger – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets (15 grams)
Hallertauer Magnum – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellet (30 grams)
WHC Dried Yeast -LAX – 11g Packet (1 pack)

Method

Beer Style (main): German Ales
Beer Style (sub): German-Style Altbier
Batch Size: 23
Original Gravity: 1.051
Final Gravity: 1.012
ABV %: 5
IBU: 46
Mash efficiency: 80
Brewing equipment:

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 68
Length (mins) (Step 1): 60
Temperature °C (Step 2): 75
Length (mins) (Step 2): 10

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60

Hop / kettle additions and timing:

30g Magnum @ 60min
15g Tettnang @ 15min

Yeast: WHC – LAX – 1 Packet
Fermentation temperature/steps: Ferment this on the colder side – 18c until fermentation has completed, up to 4 weeks conditioning time is also ideal for this style.

Comments:

This beer wants to be fermented cool to allow for little to no yeast character being imparted on the beer but do ensure it ferments fully, you can support this by either adding a second packet of yeast or creating a yeast starter.