Planning my yearly Oktoberfest brew. This year going to be prepared so it is actually ready to drink in October, as opposed to actually making it in October (novel idea)
Anyway, this is what I have made the last couple years, picked up a kit from a place in the US owned by the authors of Clone Brewing. Their instructions were well detailed that I could just buy the ingredients again to make it again.
I want to change it up a little bit this year, and add a smokey character to it, nothing in your face, smoke bomb, but just a nice subtle smokey note to it.
Any suggestions as to what to use? Add to the recipe? Or replace something?
I will be swapping out the LME for DME, as I am not getting the color on the brews I am looking for. Mostly from the factor of the act of boiling the LME actually darkens it. Just did a Pilsner Urquell clone, and it is anything but looking like a pilsner because the LME darkened so much. Of course for anything DME that isn't light or dark DME, I have to go to mail order as NG doesn't carry anything else but the light and dark. I can at least get Pilsen DME from a couple of mail order places.
Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated.