Rasberry Vanilla Blonde (variation to Blueberry Wheat)

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Thursday Aug 10, 2006 3:14 pm

Well all is goin well with this one and im gettin ready to rack onto rasberries and vanilla steeped water, probably on sunday and that should be interesting in itself, i also heard from jack sparrow and he said that it turned out fantastic so cant wait- keep you posted

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Saturday Aug 12, 2006 6:34 pm

Although i think i could be all alone in here, im still gonna keep raving on, well any way i racked the brew onto the rassberries and vanilla today and mmmmmmm it smelt good, didnt look to flash though but im not used to berries floating round in my brew and i dare say there will be a fair bit of cleaning to get the fermenter back to scratch when its finished.
Also took off like a rocket through the airlock after i racked it so everything seems fine

Keep you posted, i think ill cold condition this one for a few weeks but i wont convert to my fridge container for probably 10- 14 days.

shane_vor · Post by **shane_vor** » Sunday Aug 13, 2006 12:09 pm

You are definitely not alone, I'm watching since a berry beer is one I plan on doing as soon as your tasting is done!!!!

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Thursday Aug 24, 2006 9:27 pm

Well after 6 days in the second fermentation stopped and i racked off into another fermenter and let sit for a few more days, only put in the fridge for 2 days and she cleared up nice, it was mainly like a fruit juice sort of sediment not like a normal beer obviously, well bulk primed and now shes in the bottle so will let you know more in a couple of weeks when i test one

P.S if your gonna do one i hope you dont have a weak gut cos the mess in the 2nd is quite horrible, but worth it if it tastes as good as it looks

shane_vor · Post by **shane_vor** » Wednesday Sep 06, 2006 9:52 am

I have a Pilsener which is about to cop the fruit treatment, since I don't think I like Blondes very much...

Timmsy · Post by **Timmsy** » Wednesday Sep 06, 2006 10:10 am

This one sounds a real treat. Am waiting to hear what the results are aswell and i might give this one a shot.

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Wednesday Sep 06, 2006 10:55 am

Well its been in the bottle for almost 2 weeks so ill give it a couple more then ill post some tasting notes for you

Timmsy · Post by **Timmsy** » Wednesday Sep 06, 2006 11:17 am

I will have to print out the step by step instructions as ive never done anything like this before

shane_vor · Post by **shane_vor** » Wednesday Sep 06, 2006 3:36 pm

Well, I racked off my pilsener into the secondary fermenter onto 1 kilo of frozen raspberries which I'd cooked and mashed for 20 minutes or so.

My Pilsener now has a bright pink head!!!!!!!!! Is the beer supposed to be so colourful? I'm pretty sure the Kriek I tried was a normal colour.....
This will be interesting.

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Wednesday Sep 06, 2006 6:08 pm

shane_vor wrote:Well, I racked off my pilsener into the secondary fermenter onto 1 kilo of frozen raspberries which I'd cooked and mashed for 20 minutes or so.

My Pilsener now has a bright pink head!!!!!!!!! Is the beer supposed to be so colourful? I'm pretty sure the Kriek I tried was a normal colour.....
This will be interesting.

Let us know how she goes.

Looking forward to see how Lethals tastes also

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Wednesday Sep 06, 2006 6:11 pm

shane_vor wrote:Well, I racked off my pilsener into the secondary fermenter onto 1 kilo of frozen raspberries which I'd cooked and mashed for 20 minutes or so.

My Pilsener now has a bright pink head!!!!!!!!! Is the beer supposed to be so colourful? I'm pretty sure the Kriek I tried was a normal colour.....
This will be interesting.

Mine was a nice dark Raspberry colour( suprise surprise

) But after i racked off at end of 2nd it was more of a sort of pink champaign colour

Also check out chris's Blueberry wheat notes, apparently it was nice and blue and when he drank it it even had a bluie coloured head

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Sunday Sep 17, 2006 9:47 am

Been in the bottle for about 3 weeks now and i had a taste last night, ive gotta say after 3 weeks im not overly impressed, just hope it gets alot better with some more ageing

will try again in 1 month

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Sunday Sep 17, 2006 10:13 am

lethaldog wrote:Been in the bottle for about 3 weeks now and i had a taste last night, ive gotta say after 3 weeks im not overly impressed, just hope it gets alot better with some more ageing will try again in 1 month

Was it too sweet, Bitter, overbearing?

Boonie

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Sunday Sep 17, 2006 4:28 pm

Nah boonie it was actually a bit sour, for lack of a better word, im sure it will age out ok and it was drinkable just not my sort of thing, but in saying this it has only been in the bottle for 3 weeks

Deffinately not to sweet, infact if i do it again i think i would add lactose instead of dex

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Sunday Sep 17, 2006 9:26 pm

That sour flavour will round out.

Most people except the beers to be sweet, I think you will find that they are very dry.

Dogger

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Sunday Sep 17, 2006 10:10 pm

lethaldog wrote:Nah boonie it was actually a bit sour, for lack of a better word, im sure it will age out ok and it was drinkable just not my sort of thing, but in saying this it has only been in the bottle for 3 weeks Deffinately not to sweet, infact if i do it again i think i would add lactose instead of dex

Sour Lethal? Go figure

It is young though as you have said.

Dogger reckons that they will get dry.

Have you had one like this Dogger?

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Sunday Sep 17, 2006 10:15 pm

Dogger Dan wrote:That sour flavour will round out.

Most people except the beers to be sweet, I think you will find that they are very dry.

Dogger

Cheers dogger, im glad to here that it will round out as i was just slightly worried, i have been worried about brews before though and as is probably the case with this one, they deffinately fine tuned themselves in the bottle after a few months

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Sunday Sep 17, 2006 11:31 pm

Yeh,

I did a Cherry recently that I thought I had overdone. After about 4 weeks cold in the keg I was willing to gobble it down.

The other thing to note to is to try and back the hops down a bit as well

Dogger