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Location
Nashville, TN
Recipe Type
All Grain
Yeast
3068
Yeast Starter
1 pint @ 1.050, 4 days
Batch Size (Gallons)
3.5
Original Gravity
1.072
Final Gravity
1.021
Boiling Time (Minutes)
60
IBU
26
Color
25
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
14 @ 70
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
14 @ 70
Additional Fermentation
Bottle conditioned 21 days @ 70
Tasting Notes
Powerful banana and clove esters, strong malt backbone, and a slight alcohol bite
Weizenbock

Weyermann Pale Wheat 5lbs 8oz
Weyermann Chocolate Wheat 0lbs 8oz
Briess Organic Munich 10 4lbs 0oz
Wyeast 3068 1ea
Rice Hulls 1lb 4oz
Palisades Pellets - 6.5% 0.25oz @60
Palisades Pellets - 6.5% 0.75oz @15
 
I <3 Weizenbock. For some reason I always thought they needed a much lower fermentation temp, say low 60s. I may have to try this out.
 
cvstrat said:
I <3 Weizenbock. For some reason I always thought they needed a much lower fermentation temp, say low 60s. I may have to try this out.
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Probably because true bocks, being lagers, require a lower fermentation temperature. Weizenbock, however, isn't Bock :)
 
I remember reading the BYO Aventinus clone recipe and it requiring lagering. Although the bottle says it's fermented w/ale yeast. Kinda got confused.
 
If you scale the grain bill from 3.5 to 5 gallons you can probably get a full-sized batch. This was originally supposed to be a dunkelweizen but due to the use of chocolate wheat and the large boil-off (this was before I bought the pot for full boils and boiled side-by-side in two pots) it ended up being much darker and stronger. The mistake ended up placing me in a competition :)
 
Palisade is like an American-style noble hop. So a bit of the cascade/chinook impression while still being reminiscent of german hops, I guess. I dunno, I'm not great on hops but I always try to change it up where I can.
 
I'm going to follow this recipe for my first all-grain batch. I love Weizenbock's like no other style, and I'm thinking of dryhopping with some more aggressive aroma hops. Thoughts?
 

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