Best Weizenbock Recipe?

[Rambleon]

Hi all. I'm looking to brew a Weizenbock recipe in the next couple of weeks and having never brewed one I immediately planned on doing Jamil's recipe from BCS. However, when I looked at it seemed like it would end up too sweet with its reliance on Special B and C-40, cloying sweetness being a common flaw in Weizenbocks. Quite a while back the Jamil Show had on Rodney who won the Longshot Competition with his Weizenbock and I was surprised at how much more simple his recipe was. He was sayin that age brings out the plum/raisin flavors in his beer, not specialty malts. Does anyone have any experience with either of these recipes?

 

[zachattack]

I brewed the BCS recipe and I absolutely love it. It's strong (I think mine's around 8.5% abv) and it finished at 1.020. It's appropriately sweet but certainly not cloying. I did carbonate mine to 3 volumes, I think the strong carbonation may help offset some of the sweetness. Mine was fantastic after only a few weeks in the bottle, no aging required. I have no experience with Rodney's recipe, but I've got a 100% success rate with every one of Jamil's recipes that I've made so far.