Coopers Weizenbock
Beer Recipe
| Recipe Name: | Coopers Weizenbock |
| Style: | Weizenbock |
| Mash: | Extract |
| Volume: | 5 gallons |
| OG: | 1.078 |
| FG: | 1.021 |
| % Alc: | 7.6 |
| IBU: | 18 |
| SRM: |
| Description of this Beer |
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This recipe is based on “Trick or Treat Bock” from Brewing Classic Styles by Jamil Zainasheff and John J. Palmer The recipe is available as a BeerSmith1 file at the bottom of this page. |
| Fermentables |
| Amount & Type of Fementable (grain, extract, sugar, fruit, etc.) |
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3 Cans of Coopers Wheat Malt Extract (9.9 lb, or 4.5 kg) (5°L) 1.5 lb (680 g) Light Munich Liquid Malt Extract (10°L) 0.5 lb (227 g) Special B Malt (120° L) 0.5 lb (227 g) Crystal Malt (40° L) 0.25 lb (113 g) Light Chocolate Malt (350° L) |
| Hops |
| Amount & Type of Hops, %AA, pellet/whole/plug, time in boil/FWH/Dry Hop/Mash Hop |
| 1.5 oz (43 g) Hallertau Hersbrucker (or similar German noble hops) pellet hops, 4.75% alpha acid (60 min) |
| Other Ingredients |
| Amount & Type (herbs, spices, wood, finings, etc.), When/Where Added |
| Coopers Brewery Carbonation Drops for bottling |
| Yeast | |
| Type of Yeast (e.g. Wyeast 1056, White Labs WLP001) | Amount Pitched |
| Use 3 packages Wyeast 3068 Weinhenstephan Weizen Yeast, or 3 vials White Labs WLP300 Hefeweizen Ale Yeast, or make an appropriate sized yeast starter. | |
| Directions |
| Include mash temps/times, boil times, fermentation temps/duration, etc. |
| Steep the grains in 1.75 gallons (6.6 L) of water heating up to 170° F (77° C). Strain the water from the grain and sparge with 0.5 gallons (1.9 L) hot water. Stir in malt extract for a total volume of 3.54 gallons (13.4 L), and bring to a boil. Add bittering hops and boil for 60 minutes. Cool the wort, and pour it into the fermenter with enough cold water to make 5.25 gallons (20 L). Aerate and pitch yeast when temperature drops to 60° F (15°C). Ferment at 62°F (17° C) for one or two weeks or until fermentation is complete. Prime with Coopers Brewery carbonation drops at bottling (at room temperature) for 2.5 to 3 volumes of CO2. |