Any good Bock recipes?

"Brewing Classic Styles " is fantastic

 

Sorry.. Just realized you wrote "bock" not "book".

 

http://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/14487/jamils-little-barnabas

 

http://www.winning-homebrew.com/Traditional-Bock.html

 

The bock recipe in this book is very good, I've brewed it with great success a few times (I've brewed the all grain version). I would start with this one. Also if you subscribe to Zymurgy the bock that won last year's National Comp recipe is very good as well. The two recipes are very similar actually.

 

But your comment still applies. New brewers seeking basic recipes in order to start designing beers of their own could do a lot worse than to start with what's in Brewing Classic Styles. It's what I do, usually.

Step one: brew Jamil's recipe.

Step two: try the beer and think about what possible improvement might be made.

Step three: tweak the recipe to my personal preference.

Step four: repeat steps two and three as necessary.

 

Just as important, if not more so, in brewing a lager, is process. While the brew day will be nothing out of the ordinary from what you're used to doing, you need to have a way to get your wort down to proper lager pitching temps (45-50*F), sufficiently aerate your wort, pitch an appropriate amount of yeaast, and control fermentation temps. Typical lagers ferment somewhere around 50*F, then require a long lagering period in the sub 40*F range. Unless you have a way to do these things, I would recommend either sticking to brewing ales or use a high-temp lager yeast, such as WLP810 or Wyeast 2112.