Fat Tire Clone

[Blowmax10]

Having never done a clone of this beer, the only thing I can offer is something from a recent experience I had - tasting two day old Fat Tire at the brewery. They are not using a clean american yeast in that one. There are definitely very subtle belgian phenolics that I only ever tasted in this fresh example. Maybe a Biere de Garde yeast, or culture from Ommegang Rare Vos bottle.


Mylo

That's a good idea and could make for a very interesting beer

I will say that I've had boxes of fat tire that tasted completely different - I was buying it by the case at sam's club for some time and it seemed like no two were exactly the same

[Bugeater]

On a recent tour of New Belgium, I talked to one of the brewers about changes in the taste of their 1554. According to him, they get their dark malts from a couple different suppliers and they have trouble keeping the taste consistent in beers that use those malts. This may be part of what you are seeing with the Fat Tire. However, those changes shouldn't be showing up from case to case. I would suspect bad handling of the beer in the Sam's Club warehouses.

Wayne

[Blowmax10]

On a recent tour of New Belgium, I talked to one of the brewers about changes in the taste of their 1554. According to him, they get their dark malts from a couple different suppliers and they have trouble keeping the taste consistent in beers that use those malts. This may be part of what you are seeing with the Fat Tire. However, those changes shouldn't be showing up from case to case. I would suspect bad handling of the beer in the Sam's Club warehouses.

Wayne

I agree on the handling

who knows how long they sat in a warehouse before I bought them

They were great back in my bottling days before I switched to kegging - What a great excuse to buy 2 cases of fat tire every pay day

[mordantly]

temperature wrecks the best beers the worst. before i knew "real" beer existed id get the usual college budgeted type swill. you leave that in the car a few cycles and you cant really tell because theres nothing in there to be ruined. costco has a high turn arround on fat tire and widmers hefe.. go to beers.