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I had this recipe on a piece of paper in my brewing notes folder, have no idea where i got it from but sounds like a good one to knock ya friends socks off.

1 Black Rock Lager
2.5kg LDME
200g crushed crystal grain
200 crushed choc grain
50g crushed black grain
20g hersbrucker hop pellets (finnishing)
Muntons gold yeast

It's supposed to be about 8%, (which would make it a dopplebock) just dont tell ya mates that & when they get pissed of three or four beers tell em they're piss weak

IMHO the only true way to a bock is to do at least a minimash, though with Morgans Master Blend you can do an extract that is quite close.

Try Morgans Roasted Black Malt if you do not want to mash, it is 88% Munich malt and definately fits the style better than the Black Rock kit. Maybe even use 2 of them in place of the kit and drop the LDME to a 2 kilo addition.

Also you are adding a fair bit of crystal and choc malt, maybe drop the choc to 50g and the crystal to 150g. I would drop the black malt all together. You will of course need a good addition of hops since you are not adding a kit, just use beersmith to calculate what you are after.

I've got some willamette pellets somewhere around here, you reckon they'd do the job

Swainy wrote:I've got some willamette pellets somewhere around here, you reckon they'd do the job

Yeah for sure, I enjoy Willamette in a bock/doppelbock.