Beer Style: Bock Family
Spruce Bock
Here’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
A 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.
Decoction Mashing Explained
Looking to maximize your maltiness? Try boiling your mash! This age-old brewing technique is explained.
Chip Off the Old Bock — The American Adaptation of Bock Beer
Old World bockbier has a New World cousin —American bock. Once a seasonal offered by nearly every American brewery, now a year-round beer style of a few regional breweries; this beer style appears to have found a niche.
Brewing Doppelbock: Tips from the Pros
Dan Carey of New Glarus and Alec Mull of Kalamazoo offer doppelbock tips (and recipes).
Aventinus Weizenbock clone
Weizenbock is a strong, wheat-based Bock Lager.
Brewing Maibock: Tips from the Pros
Maibock is potent, but it’s also fragile. It’s a big beer, yet it’s a lager, which makes it vulnerable to temperature spikes
Eisbock: Brew the Beer Money Can’t Buy
Delicious eisbock is expensive to produce on a large scale and must be aged. The unwillingness of larger breweries to produce it gives it a mystique, and it makes a great addition to any brewer’s beer cellar.
Bock in Four Movements
Learn how to make popular and traditional bock styles including helles, maibock, weizenbock, and dopplebock.
Winterbock (Wintergreen Doppelbock)
The bright flavors from wintergreen combined with a solid Doppelbock recipe…you’re welcome.
Doppelbock
Doppelbock traces its history to a monastic brewery founded in 1634 in the Bavarian town of Munich. To sustain them during periods of religious fasting such as Lent and Advent, the Pauline
