Beer Style: European Amber Lager
Includes such styles as Märzens, Vienna Lagers, Kellerbiers, and Czech Amber Lagers.
Gordon Strong’s Munich Dunkel
FREEThis recipe is somewhat of a compromise in mash techniques. Traditionally, this is a decocted style, but we’re going to use a step mash and a little extra character malt instead. If you want to use a decoction, I’ll describe that as well.
Oskar Blues Brewery’s Beerito clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyInspired by the clean amber lagers of Mexico and melded with malt flavors in Munich dunkels, this lager shows off what a maltster can do, and packs it in an easy-drinking 4.5% beer. Beerito is all about a complexity of subtle flavor with underlying tones of chocolate, caramel, walnuts, and toasted grain.
Starr Hill Brewery: Jomo clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis year-round offering from Starr Hill is fermented with Southern German lager yeast, its crisp, clean taste, and noticeable hop aroma are effectively balanced with a slight malty sweetness. Jomo has won multiple awards, including two gold medals (2004, 2011) at the Great American Beer Festival.
Brooklyn Brewery: Brooklyn Lager clone
FREEBrooklyn Lager is Brooklyn Brewery’s flagship beer. It is loosely based on the old Vienna lager style, derivations of which were popular in parts of the United States in the late 1800s. Its bitterness is snappy, with a firm malt core, and the beer is dry hopped.
Resurgence Brewing Company: Oktoberfest clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis upstate New York Oktoberfest is a traditional Marzen style beer. It features biscuit, caramel, and toffee notes.
Occidental Brewing Company: Dunkel Lager clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis smooth, malty beer based on the classic Munich style features an assortment of noble hops.
Kodiak Island Brewing Company: Oktoberfest clone
FREEThis traditional Oktoberfest is a classic take on the German style, featuring an amber color and sweet, malty notes.
Brauhaus Faust-Miltenberger: Faust Schwarzviertler clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis dark brown amber lager features a solid caramel flavor and a great mouthfeel.
John Courage Amber clone
FREEJohn Courage has an unusual twist for a British beer: It used to be labeled “amber lager” and is still brewed as a lager. It is malty and sweet, with a dry grainy aftertaste.
Sin City Brewery’s Amber clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyFull-bodied and proud, this amber hued lager may be an Oktoberfest-style beer, but it is available to be enjoyed year round. A robust micro-brewed lager made with imported and specialty malts, Sin City Amber balances a full-bodied malt character with imported German Hallertauer hops.
Spoetzl Brewery: Shiner Bock clone
FREEShiner Bock continues to ring up awards for it’s classic Shiner Bock, having won gold at the 2012 GABF and silver in the 2017 GABF in the American-Style Amber Lager category. See if you can match Spoetzl’s brewing prowess.
Avery Brewery’s The Kaiser (Imperial Oktoberfest) clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyAccording to Avery Brewing Co.’s website, “. . . a traditional Oktoberfest – gorgeous, deep copper sheen, massive malty backbone and spicy, floral, pungent Noble hops – then intensified each into this, an Imperial Oktoberfest.”