Tell me a Cherry Bock isn't a bad idea

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henryakirk

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I'm thinking about trying my first beer kit, I want to make a German Bock partial grain extract kit and flavor it with fresh cherries or tart cherry juice. I think I'll use wyeast bohemian 2124

I don't have a big glass carboy and will make it in plastic buckets and can lager it in a chest freezer in my garage.

Thanks for sharing your experience and advice

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/rich-german-bock-kit.html
 
Sam adams had a cherry chocolate bock a few years ago, so I guess the flavor combination works. I'd go with the juice for flavor, you can use the whole cherries, but you'll have to let the beer and cherries sit together for a while and keep taking taste samples to see what flavor you've got.
 
If this is your first beer kit, I would strongly, strongly recommend getting a dry ale yeast like US-05 or Nottingham. Lager yeasts require a huge volume of yeast (way more than there is in one package) and more TLC than ale yeasts.
 
I brewed a chocolate cherry Bock a year ago, and the flavor definitely works well! I used 4oz of cherry extract and I beleive 4oz chocolate nibs.
 
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