Beer Style: Bock Family
Paul Sangster’s Doppelbock/Eisbock
Digital and Plus Members OnlyBest of Show winner, America’s Finest City Homebrew Competition (502 entries)
Alec’s Doppelbock
Digital and Plus Members OnlyDoppelbock is one of my favorite styles, but it is a tough beer to make. You have to pay total attention to many things in order to get it right. Malt is the showcase, so hops are a lesser concern. Low- to mid-20s on the IBUs will balance the sweetness. Perle and Northern Brewer are good choices. Avoid hops that leave a footprint, like Chinook or Centennial or Cascade.
Alec Mull — Kalamazoo Brewing Company, Michigan
Dan’s Doppelbock
Digital and Plus Members Only“The flavor of an excellent doppelbock can be described as clean maltiness. The beer should be quite rich, almost bready. The malt should be dominant. The alcohol character should not be off-putting; neither should there be any astringency in the beer. In a doppelbock, there is a fine line between getting full flavor, maltiness and drinkability, or missing it altogether.”
Dan Carey – New Glarus Brewing Company in NewGlarus, Wisconsin.
Otter Creek Mud Bock Spring Ale clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA Bock that has a nutty, chocolate malt flavor with mild hopping.
Boston Beer Co’s Sam Adams Winter Lager clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA popular Holiday Wheat Lager recipe from a popular brewer.
Terminator Doppelbock
Digital and Plus Members OnlyLiterally, Doppelbock means double Bock(bier), a stronger, usually darker beer than the original.
Alex Drobshoff’s Traditional Bock
Digital and Plus Members OnlyOne of the winners of Boston Brewing Company’s LongShot contest.
Traditional German Bock
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA great Bock recipe for a traditional, triple decocted German Bock(bier).
Ötzi’s Eisbock
Digital and Plus Members OnlyAs members of the Bock(bier) family, Eisbocks have all the characteristics of a typical strong beer, only more so. They are much maltier and smoother even than the Dopplebocks. Essentially, Eisbocks are "iced strong beers," because they are frozen at the end of their maturation period (which separates out water in the form of crystals that can be removed).
The 10 Hardest Beer Styles to Homebrew
Digital and Plus Members OnlyWitbier. Wee Heavey. Tripel. Schwartzbier. Gueze. Eisbock. Dry Stout. Berliner Weisse. American Pilsner – are these the 10 most difficult styles for a homebrewer to pull off? They won’t be after reading our recipes and tips for success.
Spruce Bock
Digital and Plus Members OnlyHere’s a hearty holiday beer with an unusual spice — evergreen needles. Spruce tips, the new-growth of spruce trees, give a unique, characteristic flavor to beer. This flavor is not “piney,” as many people suppose. Spruce tips can be found through an internet search. For best results, age your beer several months before sampling it.
Eye in the Pyramid Wild Rice Helles Bock
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA Helles Bock made with rice… How is that wild? Helles is German for "bright," so this is a bright or light colored bock.
– Adapted from Wild Wild Rice by Joe and Dennis Fisher.