Correct, their website describes the beer as "fresh 'hoppy' bouquet" and
"slightly fruity" which to me would describe Northdown, Tettnang and/or
Hersbrucker possibly. Hersbrucker for boiling, Tettnanger for finishing &
Northdown for aroma (or hopbacked maybe?).
I'd go with the Pils base malt also and maybe a sprinkle of 10L or 20L
Crystal for slight coloring & as you said Carapils for head.
Not much is published by Becks Re: their beers, so unless you have what I
call Perfect Palate (akin to Perfect Pitch in the music world) it would be
hard to nail down exact ingredients.
The (lager) yeast would have to be a strain that provides a "dry, clean
finish" & there are many German varieties that do just that.
Experiment!!! I may just try this out to see for myself.
Kent
"QD Steve" <adlab@bigponddotnetdotau.trashthisbit> wrote in message
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> My thoughts exactly.
> Not only that, Becks is a very light dry lager so there's no place for
> munich, crystal, chocolate or dark sugar. Anyway, Becks is made to the
> purity law so there's definitely no sugar in it. At a guess, its made with
> straight pils malt about 1.5-2Lov and maybe a little carapils or carafoam
> for body. The dominating flavour of Becks is the hop flavour/aroma - not
> much malt. I've tried varios methods of hopping to try to duplicate it
> without success. IMO they use a very late addition hop extract to get the
> flavour - probably just before bottling. It would also use a neutral lager
> yeast not an ale yeast.
> Steve W.
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>>> Classification: Belgian ale, all-grain
>>> Source: Robert Aves (robert.aves@softnet.com), r.c.b., 2/26/95
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>>> In response to your request about a recipe for Belgian style Ale, here
>>> is a full
>>> grain recipe that i brewed and actually came out quite close to
>>> style.!
>>> Ingredients:
>>> 8.5 lbs. 2-row pale malt
>>> 1.5 lbs. Munich Malt
>>> 4 oz. Crystal Malt (35 Lovibond)
>>> 1 oz. Chocolate Malt
>>> 1 lb. Demerrara sugar
>>> 1/2 tsp Gypsum Mash & Sparge each
>>> 1 oz. Hallertau (3.8%)
>>> 3/4 oz. Stryian Goldings(5.0%)
>>> 1/2 oz. Saaz (3.5%)
>>> 1 Tsp Irish Moss
>>> Chimay Yeast starter (1.5 Qts.)
>>> Procedure:
>>> Mash in with 12 qts. water @ 122 degrees F. and rest 30 min. Raise to
>>> 140 F and
>>> rest 10-15 min. Raise to 150 F and wait till starch is converted(90
>>> min.) Mash
>>> out at 168 F and rest 10 min. Sparge with 168 F water to collect 23-24
>>> litres(5.75-6.0 Gallons) Boil for 70-90 min. with the following hop
>>> schedule.--
>>> 1 oz. Hallertau for 65-70 min. 1/2 oz. Stryian Goldings for 65 min.--
>>> 1/4 oz. S.
>>> Goldings for 40 min. 1/2 oz. Saaz for the final 3 min. -- Cool to
>>> pitching
>>> temperature(68-70F) and pitch yeast starter. I racked this brew when
>>> primary
>>> fermentation was done and added 1/4 oz. of Saaz to the secondary (dry
>>> hop) and
>>> let sit for 2 weeks before bottling. Added 3/4 cup of dextrose to
>>> prime. Make
>>> sure you let this beer condition in the bottle for at least 3 months
>>> before
>>> sampling. Actually it gets better after 6 months in the bottle. By the
>>> way, this
>>> recipe is for 5 U.S. gallons and you may want to increase or decrease
>>> the amount
>>> of grains depending on the efficiency of your system. My starting
>>> gravity was
>>> 1.068 and finished off at 1.012.( about 7.4% A/V).
>>> Specifics:
>>> OG: 1068
>>> FG: 1012
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>>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:34:54 GMT, Matt <selair_chapman@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>>Hello hello. I am new to brewing, but have just completed 2 brews. 1
>>>>pilsner and 1 Bavarian Heffe-Weissen. (Both Extract, and very good
>>>>beers) I
>>>>am fermenting a guinness clone from "Clone Brews"currently.
>>>> I now want to brew a german Lager, particularily Becks. Does anyone
>>>>know where I may find a clone recipe for this? Been looking for a while
>>>>with no luck. Thanks.
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