First try to design my own Bock recipe, mostly based on the malts and hops that I had available
mostura = 18 l lavagem = 23 l OG 1063 FG 1011 Mostura 65C Fermentacao 12C
Partial Mash. 3.5 pounds of grain in a 4 quart mash. Sparge a gallon. Continue with extract style boil. Add the extra munich extract and hops. Top off with extra water.
Cleaning out my grain closet. Pale base malt purchased in 2014. The night before brew day I soaked and roasted a 250g portion to medium darkness. Brewday: Sparged in 10 minutes intervals from rectangular cooler with nylon mesh after initial soak 60 minutes at 150F. 6.5 Gallons wort collected. Very long boil in aluminum cauldron on underpowered banjo burner, on flame at 4:30pm, outdoors ambient temp 40F, rolling boil finally achieved around 6pm. Flame out 8:30pm. Leaf Tettnang grown on my ...