2016 NHC Gold - Weizenbock

[Partridge9]

Category 10
German Wheat Beer
Gold Medal Winner
10C Weizenbock

James Keane
North County Brewers (Dublin, Ire)

Drak'n'Weiss

Ingredients
for 5 U.S Gallons (18.93L)

5.5 lb       (2.5kg) Dark Wheat Malt
3.3 lb      (1.5kg) Bohemian Pilsner Malt
2.2 lb       (1.0kg) Munich Malt
0.2 lb      (0.1kg) Chocolate Malt
0.3 lb      (0.15kg) Caramunich Type II
0.4 lb      (0.2kg) Special B Malt (Castle)
0.2 lb      (0.1kg) Carafa Sepcial Type II
0.2 lb      (0.1kg) Crystal Malt 20L
3.3 lb      (1.5kg) Dry Extra Light DME

1.2 oz      (30g) Saaz 3.0% aa 90m
0.5 oz      (15g) Saaz 3.0% aa 10m

White Labs WLP380 Hefe IV Ale Yeast
3 Vol Co2

Original Specific Gravity :  1.080
Final Specific Gravity : 1.027
Boil Time : 90 minutes
SRM: 23.18 IBU: 21.9 ABV:7.0

Primary Fermentation : 14 days 66 F (19C)
Secondary in Bottle for 6 months
Filtered Dublin Tap Water (quite hard).

Directions

Mash in at 104f (40C) hold for 25mins, raise tempature to 150f (66C) hold for 45mins, raise to 160f (71c) hold for 15mins, raise to 160f (77c) hold for 10 mins.
Pitch a healthy volume of yeast, I brewed a dunkle a day or two before and used it to make a fresh 0.4gallon (1.5l) starter.
The recipe was topped up with DME due to my grist limitation of 5.5kg. Swap DME for pilser malt if you dont have grist limitations.
After primary is complete, rack to bottles. Bottle condition to 2.8vols, this is necessary to let flavours balance, after two weeks at 66F (19c) move to slightly colder storage for aging.
This beer will be ready after 6 months.

[BrewDorg]

We're spoilt for Weizenbock recipes here at the moment 

Any idea how much grain the DME equals to if I wanted to do this all-grain?

[biertourist]

James, a brewing buddy in my club is the only one I know who is as obsessed with Weisse Biers as you are.  -He's got a ROCK STAR Weizenbock that uses gluten free ingredients and keeps crushing the new Gluten Free 2015 BJCP category. (He recently won a BoS with it.)

-Hit me up on FB and I'll see if I can't get the recipe for you so you can work your magic on a gluten free version.



Adam

[Beerbuddha]

I have to give this a go cheers.