Quick lager with Wyeast 2206

[drunkinThailand]

I am going to be brewing up a bock using Wyeast 2206, just wondering if anyone has any experience using the quick lager method with this yeast. Searched the forum but couldn't find anything recent, so hoping there are some people out there who have tried this out and can give me some advice.

The og will be 1.067, 43% each of munich malt and pale malt, 9% carapils and 5% special b.

Have the first step of a 2 step starter going now to get a nice, big, healthy pitch for my brew on Sunday.

 

[oceanic_brew]

Just scored a 37 at a comp here with the method. However it was a sour raspberry dopelbock that utilized triple decoction. It definitely helped to hide the youth of such a strong brew (1.077)

It was tasting delicious at about 2 months in.

Make sure your aeration technique and pitching rate are spot on!

I did a quick Lager method with the same grist but pitched some unhealthy yeast and it was one of the worse brews I've made to date.

I also made a bock with a scaled down version of my dopel before I knew how to properly calculate my yeast propagation and it took 6 months before I could drink it.

Bocks need some serious detail attention, your temps, pitch rate and aeration need to be dialed in and experimented with to nail it.

Good luck!

 

[oceanic_brew]

I feel like my post gives the impression that a bock can be turned around quickly. The quick Lager method helps but to truly refine and clean up something nearing 1.070 with such subtle malt complexity you are really looking at a long lagering phase either way, but you'll have a drinkable beer much sooner than the traditional method.

 

[drunkinThailand]

thanks for the input Oceanic brew. I am making a huge starter and will use pure oxygen, so hopefully all dialed in on that end.

Not going to lager the beer though, after its bottled it will be stored at room temperature - I don't have the setup to lager beer without stopping fermenting new beer, so that's just the way it is. I will have to see how it goes and I'll post my results in the future for others to see in the future.