# 🍺 Top-down Brew: Fat Tire Amber Ale Clone

Enter the recipe data og: 1.050 m: Chocolate malt, 1, 340, 65 m: Crystal 80L, 5, 80, 74 m: Munich malt, 10, 10, 74 m: Victory, 4, 25, 74 m: American two-row, 80, 1.8, 81 ibu: 20 h: Target, 75, 11, 60 h: Willamette, 15, 4.75, 10 h: Golding, 10, 5, 0 y: ale

Variation for an extract version:

- 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

Target volume

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Measurement Units Metric US US Barrels

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Mash Efficiency

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## Results

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## Notes

New Belgium's Fat Tire Amber Ale is 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

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