Anyone have a good doppelbock recipe that could be freeze concentrated into a good eisbock?
Looking to brew a 5 gallon batch of doppelbock and freeze a portion of it to make a great eisbock so I can have both the dopple and the eis out of one brewday. I understand that concentrating the doppelbock can lead to flavors being intensified and potentially cloying if the original beer recipe is not considered for freezing. Any thoughts?
We just tapped a half barrel batch of jamils doppelbock, fermented with 34/70. The base beer is excellent. We are considering eising one keg of the three, so I’m following this thread!
I have been looking at some recipes online and am slowly formulating one in my head which will eventually get transcribed into Promash as soon as I wrap my head around what I am looking for.
If you decide to “eis” one of those kegs, please let me know how it turns out…
A few months back, I just brewed an off the top of my head bock and eised it. Pretty much all Best Munich II, I think maybe a touch of crystal.
How did the eis verson come out?
Excellent, although it was a learning experience trying to find the proper temp to eis it. Since I with a bock base, it wasn’t as strong, which is what I wanted.
Did you like the all Munich II base in there, or was it too much?
Definitely not too much (too much what?), but I make a lot of all/mostly Munich II beers. I’m not sure you could make a bock any other way.
I guess it depends on the lovibond of that Munich II. For example I use a dark munich that is 15L. If I used that for 100% it might be a bit over the top to maintain a drinkable bock, at least for me. I do no-sparge a lot of brews too which could also be contributing to that extra malt punch.
I’m pretty sure jamils is 80/10 Munich and pils with the other 10 as cara Munich 60 giving it the toasty note. I would highly recommend 2206.
Got it…the Best I use is about 10
Denny what method did you use to freeze distill? We have about 4 gallons sitting in a corny keg. I would prefer not to rack it again, but I can if need be.
I used a bucket to make it easy to remove the ice.
I use kegs and just blow it out the liquid port. Works pretty well as long as you don’t over freeze the dang thing
I thought about that but I was concerned with having liquid freeze in the dip tube.
That’s my fear as well, but I have heard of people doing it successfully.
Any tips Drew?
Don’t let it freeze? 
seriously for me its be Jonny on the spot and don’t go beyond slushy.