My home kegging equipment came today, which is awesome (yay for no more bottling), but the bigger part was that the next set of ingredients came so I could make a North German Altbier (think Alaska Amber or Otter Creek Copper Ale). Sadly the camera is out of batteries and I can't find the charger right now so there are no photos of it, but here's the run down of the recipe (it's from Brew Your Own magazine; it's the homebrew version of Alaska Amber).

2 lbs 2 row barley
.5 lbs Crystal 20°L
.5 lbs Crystal 40°L
5 lbs Pale dried malt extract (DME)
.75 ounces 5.4% Cascade hops (pellets) for 4 AAU @ 60 minutes
.70 ounces 5.8% Saaz hops (pellets) for 4 AAU @ 15 minutes
1 tsp Irish Moss @ 15 minutes (seaweed for clarity)
Wyeast German Ale activator pack

Started off doing the grain soak in a bag in 2.5 gallons of 150°F water for 45 minutes, added the DME and brought to a boil. Quick boil over resolved, let the hot break occur and checked my boil gravity (1.065 — high only because it's a partial boil) and added the Cascade hops. 45 minutes later threw in the Saaz and the Irish Moss. When the boil was over, used an ice bath to get down to 80°F in 10 minutes, then added 3 gallons of cold tap water to it in the fermentation bucket to bring the temp down to 61°F. Pitched the yeast, aerated and threw on the airlock.

Boil Gravity: 1.070-ish (at 212 degrees hence the inaccuracy, I forgot to take it before it boiled)
Original Gravity: 1.055 (at 60 degrees)

I'll leave this to ferment in the primary fermentation bucket for at least 10 days in the high 60°F range at which point it'll hopefully have hit a Final Gravity of 1.015 (which means around 4-4.5% alcohol by volume), and then move it to my secondary (a new Better Bottle which arrived today) for a good 2-3 weeks at 40° followed by kegging and drinking!

(Although the calculations show that my IBU (international bitterness units) will be a little lower than desired. 4 AAU of Cascade at 60 minutes in 1.070 gives me about 11.58 IBU (4 aau * 0.193 (utilization) * 75 (metric conversion) / 5 (gallons of water)) and 4 AAU of Saaz at 15 minutes gives about 5.75 IBU for a total of 17 1/3 IBU, where we're looking for about 20.)