Skolbock

Bock based on Coopers Pilsner kit (listed as 1.7 kgs of the LME), IBU contribution of kit calculated and adjusted in spreadsheet.

Brewer:	Anarchist Brewing		Email:	Anarchistbrewing@live.com.au
Beer:	Skolbock		Style:	Doppelbock
Type:	Extract		Size:	23 liters
Color:	29 HCU (~15 SRM)		Bitterness:	25 IBU
OG:	1.070		FG:	1.020
Alcohol:	6.5% v/v (5.1% w/w)
Water:	Boiled tap water only used.
Boil:	60 mins minutes	SG 1.179	9 liters
	3.2kg Light malt extract 1.5kg Dark malt extract 500g Wheat extract
	All extracts boiled in 9 litre pot with saaz hops as listed.
Hops:	60g Pilsner kit contribution (8.5% AA, 60 min.) 15g Saaz (3.75% AA, 45 min.) 46g Pilsner kit contribution (8.5% AA, 30 min.) 15g Saaz (3.75% AA, 15 min.)
Yeast:	Saflager yeast.
Log:	Kept for 2 weeks in the fermentor, then bulk primed, regridgerated at 4°C for 4 weeks, left at room temperature for 2 weeks to prime.
Carbonation:	2.2 volumes	Cane Sugar: 122g for 23 liters @ 20°C
	Dextrose used instead of cane sugar.
Tasting:	This beer was a cracker. Sweet, strong, dark malty goodness after 2 weeks of priming, can only get better. Planned to swap 6 longnecks for some home preserved olives a friend gave me, but it's so good might have to rethink that.

Recipe posted 08/23/08.