🍺 Top-down Brew: Fat Tire Amber Ale Clone

Recipe variables

Variations

Steeped grains with malt extract:

Delete the American two-row, Munich, and Victory lines
Increase the crystal malt to 7%: m: Crystal 80L, 7, 80, 74
For liquid malt extract: add s: Liquid light malt extract, 92, 5, 76
For dry malt extract: add s: Dry light malt extract, 92, 3.5, 96

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Results

Notes

New Belgium's Fat Tire Amber Ale was a highly regarded example of the American amber ale style. This recipe is based on a clone recipe published in BYO magazine. New Belgium replaced this beer with Fat Tire Ale in 2023.

The original recipe was modified to be slightly darker by adding 1% chocolate malt to the grain bill.

Suggested yeast choices are Wyeast 1792 (Fat Tire ale), Wyeast 1272 (American Ale II), or White Labs WLP051 (California Ale V).

References

BYO (2010, December) Fat Tire Amber Ale clone