Beer Style: Bock Family
Eis, Eis, Baby
Due to legal and practical constraints, eisbock is one of the few beer styles that is more geared for homebrewers than pros. The secret is freeze concentration, transforming the beer from one style into another.
Gordon Strong’s Eisbock
The secret of eisbock is the freeze concentration, transforming the beer from one style into another.
20/30 Vision Helles Bock
This Helles Bock recipe showcases the bold and dynamic flavors from lighter malts. The four specialty malts all contribute to the beer in their own way providing a broad range of flavors and aromas including biscuity, bready, malty, and toffee notes.
Weizenbock
While our understanding and categorization of the German wheat beer family has evolved over the years, the acknowledgement of a strong wheat beer called weizenbock has been relatively static. Maybe that is because the prototypical weizenbock, Schneider Aventinus, is truly a world-class beer that is widely available and is well-known.
Oakshire Brewing Co.’s Doppelbock clone
Doppelbock is one of our favorite brews to make each year. Ferment low and slow to ensure a very smooth and malt-forward beer that can withstand the high alcohol.
Victory Brewing Co.’s St. Victorious Doppelbock clone
A strong lager featuring many malts to add complexity across the palate, St. Victorious Doppelbock takes it a step further by adding a small addition of Beechwood smoked malt, a nod to the Franconian region in and around Bamberg, Germany.
Your Turn Maibock
This recipe was submitted by Rick Shultz. It is the homebrew recipe that inspired Lakefront Brewery’s My Turn Series “Chris.”
Pecan Doppelbock
I chose a doppelbock because of its rich, full-bodied, caramel malty flavor, blanketed light hop aroma with a light ruby-hazed color. This style with the pecan addition just screams Thanksgiving to me.
OMB!! — Oh my bock
The first beer I brewed on my new brew system found in the December 2020 issue’s Homebrew Drool Setups.
Doppel Your Pleasure, Doppel Your Fun
Doppelbock is often deemed one of the harder beer styles to brew well. First off, it’s big and bready — the monks brewed it specifically for times of fasting to stave off
Cold as Ice(bock)
Eisbock, (Eis meaning “ice” in German), is a higher-alcohol version of the classic barley-based Bavarian strong lager, the bockbier (or bock for short), or alternately, a wheat-based ale. Eisbock has a unique
Horst’s Eisbock
Eisbock (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.067 FG* = 1.014IBU* = 28 SRM* = 10.6 ABV* = 7% * The base recipe, and specifications listed above, are for my favorite Maibock recipe
