Dark fruit flavours/ american ale strain??

[irishrover32]

so im looking to brew a bock. im aiming for something like anchor bock which is bursting with dark fruit flavours like plum raison and fig. im surprised that things like pale malt, munich, dark crystal and chocolate (which are listed on the website) along with cal V yeast from white labs would give me these flavours. i thought it would be more porter like. how can i be sure i get these dark fruit flavours with these grains and this yeast. i thought a belgian strain would give these flavours not an american ale strain?

 

[z-bob]

That's supposed to be the types of flavors you get from very dark crystal, like Special B.

 

[irishrover32]

ye i was thinking of subbing the crystal for special b and see how that works, i still cant get my head around how it makes dark fruit flavours with that yeast. i usually associate them flavours with belgian yeast strains not malts

 

[giraffe]

You want a clean strain or anything bock-like. Crystals 80L or darker will give plenty of dark fruit, especially supported by a -large- quantity of dark munich malt. I particularly like CaraAroma as a dark crystal for dark lagers.

 

[irishrover32]

thanks ill try the dark munich along with some special b and a clean ale yeast