Beer Style: Bock
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.
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.
Jamil’s Weizenbock
While the traditional weizen fermentation esters and phenols should be obvious in weizenbock, keep in mind that the fermentation character — the clove and banana — should blend well with the rest of the beer character.
American Bock
American bock, you say? Surely, bock is a purely German style . . . right? Yes, indeed it is, however there was once a style called American bock, which is going to
Respect the Goat Bock
Respect the Goat Bock (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.063 FG = 1.015 IBU = 27 SRM = 14 ABV = 6.3% Ingredients13.5 lbs. (6.1 kg) Best Malz Best Munich malt0.25
Gordon Strong’s Maibock
“As with other German lagers, this style is best when it is understated — elegant, clean, impeccably crafted, well-lagered, and unobtrusive. This allows the quality of the ingredients to show themselves in the finished product, and the beer itself to be nicely drinkable despite the strength.” – Gordon Strong
Maibock / Helles Bock
After an excursion into some newer, emerging, or little-known styles, I’m returning to talking about some old favorites — in this case, Maibock, also known as helles bock. Before we talk about
Kid Groat Bock
John Palmer opens his recipe book to provide a clean, albeit unique, oat bock recipe.
