homebrewandbeer.com

Want to do a wheat beer for summer. Was all set to do a honey-wheat, but strawberries are bloody cheap at the mo. Can anyone recommend (or not) how to do a good beer with strawbs? I know I'm being lazy by asking, but it's a start..... cheers

I just posted fruit beer instructions yesterday somewhere tourist. May want to take a quick search, if you can't find them I will re post

Dogger

Found it

As an aside, I always put the fruit in at the begining of the ferment. Freeze the fruit first, that will force the water inside to become ice and rip open the cell walls so you can get all the sugars out. Then, if doing a concentrated boil, add the boiling wort to the fruit to pasturise it. You wont release the pectin,

(and by the way, you can activate pectin cold as well as hot but you need it in the presence of Calcium and a good acid. Thats why you add calcium chloride and ascorbic acid to jams. Besides which you can drop it using a gelitin if you have real issues)

Let it sit for ten minutes with the hot wort, then top up, check temp, pitch yeast and ferment in primary for 5 days. Transfer to secondary and drive on as normal.

If using a full boil, add about 7 litres of boiling wort (before you chill it) to the fruit to pasturise, Chill the the remaining wort, transfer and pitch. Carry on as above.

You will have a dry beer.

Raspberries and cherries are pretty powerful, strawberries kind of medium and blueberries medium. I also did a cranberry beery last year and think I will freeze some this year so I can make it year round.

I would like to point out that it is really recomended to pasturise the berries rather than risk a nasty infection to you or your beer.

Dogger

Tourist wrote:Want to do a wheat beer for summer. Was all set to do a honey-wheat, but strawberries are bloody cheap at the mo. Can anyone recommend (or not) how to do a good beer with strawbs? I know I'm being lazy by asking, but it's a start..... cheers

Tourist, I have just done a Strawberry Blonde.

I'd like to tell you what it is like, but I racked mine with strawberries about 1.5 hours ago.

I would follow Doggers recipe and give it a go. I had already brewed beer and planned to rack with berries before his was online. It sounds like a goer though

Tourist, I have just done a Strawberry Blonde.

was this one of the ones from work boonie

lethaldog wrote:

Tourist, I have just done a Strawberry Blonde.

was this one of the ones from work boonie

Yeah......I wish I had her on the boil for an hour

Thanks Dogger and Boonie,

My question should really have read:

Do you a reckon a wheat beer with strawberries would taste:
a) shit
b) good

I'm thinking "a", but could be wrong.

Will be keen to hear how yours turns out Boonie.

Tourist wrote:Thanks Dogger and Boonie,

My question should really have read:

Do you a reckon a wheat beer with strawberries would taste:
a) shit
b) good

I'm thinking "a", but could be wrong.

Will be keen to hear how yours turns out Boonie.

Bloody hell, typed all this shite below before my wireless router shite itself....anyhoooooow, now that I have that off my chest

I reckon B

I have tested /hydrometered the brew (FG 1010 so far).

I will post my notes on the "Don't do many......Coopers Strawberry Blonde" post for my strawberry beer.

Tastes pretty good so far. Lethal had a raspberry that was "bitter" mine was a little bitter, but hey, time is our friend

Cheers

Boonie

I got my own question wrong!

I think "b' but typed "a" because i'm a "d.c."

Tourist wrote:I got my own question wrong!

I think "b' but typed "a" because i'm a "d.c."

Takes a big man to admit his mistake

For a minut there I was thinking we were doing this just for shits and giggles.

Yep, Its good. I like it

Dogger

Mines been racked for the second time and stll won't stop fermenting!

Smells and tastes okay though., (In the shed tapping his foot and watching the air lock!)