Fruit Beer

[Ross]

Here's the recipe...

Blackberry Hefe
Type: All Grain
Date: 10/10/2006
Batch Size: 26.00 L
Boil Size: 33.64 L
Boil Time: 90 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 85.0

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
2.10 kg Wheat Malt, Malt (Barret Burston) (3.5 EBC) Grain 51.2 %
1.50 kg Pale Malt, Galaxy (Barrett Burston) (3.0 EBC) Grain 36.6 %
0.50 kg Munich Malt (Weyermann)(17.7 EBC) Grain 12.2 %
35.00 gm Hallertauer [3.20%] (80 min) Hops 12.2 IBU
15.00 gm Hallertauer [3.00%] (15 min) Hops 2.3 IBU
1.00 tsp Table Salt (Boil 90.0 min) Misc
2.00 kg Blackberries (Secondary 7.0 days) Misc
1 Pkgs Hefeweizen Ale (White Labs #WLP300) Yeast-Wheat

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.050 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.011
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.2 %
Bitterness: 14.5 IBU

 

[tangent]

sounds great Ross
i'd be interested to see how the colour goes.
my last beer with berries went purple, light purple, then all the colour dropped out after about a week in the keg.

 

[bindi]

Thanks for that link roach, bookmarked that page.
They do 'waffle-on' before they get to the subject though.

OK, I will try 1.5kg of cherries for 22L, thanks for the advice Stuster and Adamt.

Ok I did not use the frozen cherries but used 3 x 700ml jars of Morello cherries in syrup the other day, I see the posts on Kriek recipes Here in Wortgames post says, to quote him "Morello cherries are surprisingly cheap in jars - check your local supermarkets, but I can usually find them for about $3 for a big jar. Not too many added surprises either, a tiny bit of sugar and that's it." end quote
I did this the other day before I saw his post, I was walking around the supermarket and spotted them and thought "what the hell, toss some in and see", the sample I tried today is tart and sweet at the same time, the Wyeast 3787 Trappist is really getting into it now in 2ndry.
It was going to be a Wit base but I had a 1.5L starter of 3787 going so again "what the hell" could be a winner with the orange peel and coriander I had in it for the Wit, what a mix.

Well here it is after a month, and it's very nice

 

[Screwtop]

Well here it is after a month, and it's very nice

And it tastes as good as it looks, like sweet and sour in a glass. Another Great brew Bindi!

 

[Whistlingjack]

Yesterday, inspired by this forum, I racked my latest hefeweizen onto 1kg of raspberries. Already the colour has changed to a pink hue and the yeast has gone to work again.

I used frozen fruit wrapped in muslin.

This will be my xmas beer for distribution to friends and family.

 

[barls]

i tasted my raspberry wheat finally, and its well balanced with a nice colour. i the recipe is in this thread http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...mp;#entry163748

 

[Ross]

Here's the recipe...

Blackberry Hefe
Type: All Grain
Date: 10/10/2006
Batch Size: 26.00 L
Boil Size: 33.64 L
Boil Time: 90 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 85.0

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
2.10 kg Wheat Malt, Malt (Barret Burston) (3.5 EBC) Grain 51.2 %
1.50 kg Pale Malt, Galaxy (Barrett Burston) (3.0 EBC) Grain 36.6 %
0.50 kg Munich Malt (Weyermann)(17.7 EBC) Grain 12.2 %
35.00 gm Hallertauer [3.20%] (80 min) Hops 12.2 IBU
15.00 gm Hallertauer [3.00%] (15 min) Hops 2.3 IBU
1.00 tsp Table Salt (Boil 90.0 min) Misc
2.00 kg Blackberries (Secondary 7.0 days) Misc
1 Pkgs Hefeweizen Ale (White Labs #WLP300) Yeast-Wheat

Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.050 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.011
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 5.2 %
Bitterness: 14.5 IBU

Racked this one onto the blackberries a few days ago - anyone know how much the alc will increase for 2kg of whole blackberries?

cheers Ross

 

[kirem]

did you check the sugar level of the blackberries?

Just squeeze a drop onto your refrac.

 

[organo]

Ross...

I chucked a 400g can of berries in a 11.5 l batch recently and got a lot more attenuation than 75%... from an OG of 1050 I ended up with a FG of 1006.... you sound to be using some more berries than I did, so will probably get more alcohol than I did, though the can probably had added sugar, I think... (it was also an incredibly slow ferment..)

so yeah, calculations won't generally take into account the sugar in the fruit, and in 2 kg of blackberries there would have to be a fair bit of fermentable sugar...

I just tasted mine, after 2 weeks in the bottle, and it was rather nice.. a dry fruitiness, and pretty subtle... it didn't seem to knock my head off, but I had a pretty heavy day at that point.... probably wait another couple of weeks for another taste...

Cheers, Organo

 

[Ross]

did you check the sugar level of the blackberries?

Just squeeze a drop onto your refrac.

Bugger - Didn't think of that.... Too late now - surely there must be a rough rule of thumb for the sugar content of berries?? I want to be able to give drinkers some sort of guide to it's alc %

cheers Ross

 

[Stuster]

Ross, from here it looks like 10% sugar will be close enough.

 

[Malnourished]

Bugger - Didn't think of that.... Too late now - surely there must be a rough rule of thumb for the sugar content of berries?? I want to be able to give drinkers some sort of guide to it's alc %

I wouldn't expect it to change much. This site lists the total carbohydrate of fresh berries as ~12% by weight, so that would be the upper limit of sugar content (I think :blink:.)

Using 12% sugar, 2kg in 26L will increase your ABV to about 5.7%.

 

[Ross]

Thanks guys - My guestimate was way off ...

cheers Ross