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'''<big>By Arthur Olcot</big>'''

Recipe is part of [[Recipe Index]]

'''BJCP 2021 Style 4C Helles Bock'''

This is a really interesting beer as it was inspired by a recent trip to Bamberg where one of the breweries we visited was Keesmann. There I had the most delicious, malty-chewy, perfectly balanced 8% odd Maibock (at midday!!). It wasn’t too far away from a barleywine in style. I enjoyed it that much I wanted to try and replicate it. So, after some research and thinking about the style and trying to recall the flavors of the beer I drank, I came up with a recipe and set about brewing it.

What came out of the keg wasn’t anything close to that beautiful beer in Bamberg! But nonetheless it was a very malty strong Helles style beer. Not knowing an awful lot about the style, and if my beer was anything close to it, I entered it into a competition as a Helles Bock and was blown away when it picked up a gold on its table scoring a 44. I guess it wasn’t that far away after all!

== Awards ==
''' Welsh National 2024 (Mad Dog Brewery Co, Cardiff, 12/10/2024) '''

1st - Light Lager

== Measures ==
* Original Gravity: 1.059 / 16.7 °P
* Final Gravity: 1.012 / 4.8 °P
* IBU (Tinseth): 31
* BU/GU: 0.45
* Colour: 14.2 EBC
* 21L batch volume

== Ingredients ==
=== Water ===
* Ca2+ 73
* Mg2+ 7
* Na+ 0
* Cl- 70
* SO42- 109
* HCO3- 0

=== Malt ===
* 3.3 kg (50.8%) — Weyermann Floor-Malted Bohemian Pilsner Malt
* 2 kg (30.8%) — Dingemans Munich
* 1 kg (15.4%) — Weyermann Barke Vienna Malt
* 200 g (3.1%) — Weyermann Melanoidin

=== Hops ===
* 15 g (27 IBU) — Magnum 17.3% — Boil — 60 min
* 15 g (4 IBU) — Perle 7.9% — Boil — 10 min
* 20 g — Hallertauer Mittelfrueh 5.4% — Boil — 0 min

=== Yeast ===
* White Labs WLP833 German Bock Lager (big starter)

== Process ==
=== Mash ===
* 66C for 1hr

=== Boil ===
* 60 minutes

=== Ferment ===
* 11 °C with a slight increase towards the end to help finish strong.
* Cold crash then package

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