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Recipe: Counter Weight Fest Bier

Following the golden path of modern festbier, this homebrew-scale recipe is closely based on Counter Weight’s GABF gold medal winner.

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Recipe: Counter Weight Fest Bier

Courtesy of Matt Westfall, founder and brewer of Counter Weight Brewing in Hamden, Connecticut, this homebrew-scale recipe is closely based on the beer that won gold at the Great American Beer Festival in 2020, in the category for Dortmunder and German-Style Oktoberfest.

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Batch size: 5 gallons (19 liters)
Brewhouse efficiency: 72%
OG: 1.055
FG: 1.010
IBUs: 22
ABV: 5.9%

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