Aventinus Wheat-Doppelbock
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:49 pm
by dunleav1
Aroma: Warm/spicy chocolate and banana maybe clove - yeasty hefe tones- it smells nice theres some alcohol here
Appearance: Dark ruby to red with a nice big white head which fades to a thin head with time.
Mouthfeel: Smooth as silk
Taste: Chocolate, caramel, plums, raisins, lots of flavor.
I could drink this all day, well at least until I ran out.
A fantastic ale rendition of a doppelbock.
Seems like a good recipe for Can You Brew It.
Re: Aventinus Wheat-Doppelbock
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:02 pm
by Pharmbrewer
dunleav1 wrote:
Seems like a good recipe for Can You Brew It.
+1000 on that one, I love this beer.
How cool would it be to hear an interview with schneider weisse. That would really put the international crew to the test.
Re: Aventinus Wheat-Doppelbock
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:48 am
by Dirk McLargeHuge
Pharmbrewer wrote:dunleav1 wrote:
Seems like a good recipe for Can You Brew It.
+1000 on that one, I love this beer.
How cool would it be to hear an interview with schneider weisse. That would really put the international crew to the test.
I wonder if they could make Dan Gordan the field correspondent?
Re: Aventinus Wheat-Doppelbock
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:49 am
by dontblake
A fantastic ale rendition of a doppelbock.
More appropriately a Weizenbock.
http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style15.php#1cI'd still love to see this on CYBI. I'll be giving this style a go within the next month - got a 5-gallon hefeweizen 'yeast starter' bubbling away.
Re: Aventinus Wheat-Doppelbock
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:01 pm
by dunleav1
dontblake wrote:A fantastic ale rendition of a doppelbock.
More appropriately a Weizenbock.
http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style15.php#1cI'd still love to see this on CYBI. I'll be giving this style a go within the next month - got a 5-gallon hefeweizen 'yeast starter' bubbling away.
I just called it what they did on the label - Wheat Doppelbock.
I really don't think Schneider-Weisse gives a shit about BJCP styles since the beer was created over a 100 years ago.
Re: Aventinus Wheat-Doppelbock
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:04 pm
by dunleav1
Dirk McLargeHuge wrote:Pharmbrewer wrote:dunleav1 wrote:
Seems like a good recipe for Can You Brew It.
+1000 on that one, I love this beer.
How cool would it be to hear an interview with schneider weisse. That would really put the international crew to the test.
I wonder if they could make Dan Gordan the field correspondent?
Funny, I made that Dan comment in my CYB request...
Re: Aventinus Wheat-Doppelbock
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:16 pm
by JohnF
Aventinus is called weizenstarkbier in the German packaging/marketing.
Oddly the only German beers I have seen called "weizenbock" were pale (Vitus and the Ayinger one).
The BJCP and US craft brewers uniformly apply weizenbock to a dark beer.
Not that it matters, weizenbock and weizenstarkbier mean exactly the same thing.
In terms of German legal bier taxonomy, Aventinus is clearly a doppelbock with a gravity of 18.5.
Re: Aventinus Wheat-Doppelbock
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:18 pm
by mediumsk
Stan's Brewing with Wheat has alot of info on how to brew Aventinus as well as a recipe by percentage per the brewmaster. I haven't brewed the recipe but just from looking at the percentages, it seems a bit off, Aventinus has so many more sweet plummy port like notes than this malt bill would seemingly supply.
1.076
8.2%
ADF 82%
IBU 16
Pilsener, Wheat, chocolate
Magnums, and Hallertau
yeast is pitched at 61 and rises to 71-73 degrees