Swarthy Satyr
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Batch Size (gallons) | 5.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Efficiency | 74% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recipe type | All Grain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Style | 5B. Traditional Bock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Original Gravity | 1.070 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Final Gravity | 1.021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ABV | 6.43% (basic) / 6.46% (advanced) [what's this?] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IBU | 21.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Color | 23.8 SRM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boil Time | 60 min | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yeast | White Labs WLP920 (Old Bavarian Lager) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directions | This beer is brewed with a double decoction mash. Rest steps are as follows:
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Fermentation notes | Ferment @ 50 degrees F until 80% attenuated. Allow to free rise to mid sixties F for a diacetyl rest. Lager @ 33 degrees F for at least eight weeks. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tasting notes | Flavor is intensely malty; a bit sweet up front, with surprising depth. Caramel notes are very evident, and so help me, there is a flavor of licorice in this beer. Bitterness is low, simply supporting the malt. Finish is dry enough to prevent it from being cloying. This is a very substantive beer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Credits | This is a recipe of my own design. Special thanks go to /u/GirkinFirker of reddit, as he was kind enough to send me this yeast simply because it needed a good home. This inspired me to create a nice German lager. Supposedly, this yeast is ideal for an Oktoberfest, but I just brewed one of those, so I settled on a bock as the malty German lager I would use this yeast for. Thanks to /r/homebrewing for their input on the recipe, and thanks to Ray Daniels' superb Designing Great Beers for helping me create the original blueprint. The name comes from the fact that the word bock is also a German slang term for goat. I was looking for a nerdy fantasy tie in, and settled on the satyr (part goat, part man) as an excellent fit. It is swarthy, of course, due to the fact that this beer is a shade dark for the style guidelines. |
Recipe Reviews
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Swarthy Satyr - OK, I may have been mistaken. Smells a little sweet, kind of like root beer. The head came and went pretty quickly. Darker, more complex than when I first had it. Almost a bit of cocoa on the nose. Not really like a Southern Brown Ale. Pretty tasty tonight. The only thing I've got against this one now is that there is no head and something about the carbonation makes me think more of drinking soda pop than beer. This is how my Southern Brown Ale is. Perhaps better head retention would make that perception go away? Anyway, don't give up on this one yet. The flavors are pretty amazing.
The malt flavors really come out to play as it warms up. It's really very tasty.
Probably the strongest vote of confidence is that the Bock convinced me to lager. Not sure if I should thank you or not.......
posted by vinpaysdoc on 9/3/2014
Swarthy Satyr - OK, I may have been mistaken. Smells a little sweet, kind of like root beer. The head came and went pretty quickly. Darker, more complex than when I first had it. Almost a bit of cocoa on the nose. Not really like a Southern Brown Ale. Pretty tasty tonight. The only thing I've got against this one now is that there is no head and something about the carbonation makes me think more of drinking soda pop than beer. This is how my Southern Brown Ale is. Perhaps better head retention would make that perception go away? Anyway, don't give up on this one yet. The flavors are pretty amazing.
The malt flavors really come out to play as it warms up. It's really very tasty.
Probably the strongest vote of confidence is that the Bock convinced me to lager. Not sure if I should thank you or not.......
posted by vinpaysdoc on 9/3/2014
This all grain Traditional Bock homebrew recipe was submitted by homebrewdad.