Good Fruits For Belgium Ales

[DrewCarey82]

I was actually thinking grapes and plums??? Are there any concentrates @ the supermarket that I can get?

My partner can almost drink this beer, if I can wean on all beers me feels....

And it would save more $$$ for more HB equipment.

 

[tangent]

raisins

 

[DrewCarey82]

And also how does I prep the fruit for adding to the wort?

 

[DrewCarey82]

Obviously no one wants to help me

 

[tangent]

try a search on fruit or look at Ross' banana ale
gotta help yourself 1st

 

[Jim_Levet]

Drew try this
1.7kg generic concentrate
1 kg CSR Extra Dark Sugar
400g Raspberries

Pulp the fruit in a blender, put it in a saucepan with about 4lts of water for a 15 min boil. Strain the extract into a very large saucepan. Add the concentrate, water & Extra Dark sugar and give it a quick boil. Dump it in the fermentor and add cold water to bring you up to around 13-15lts.
try using a DCL K-97 yeast and ferment around 26 degrees. Bottle it and wait 6-8 weeks.
Good luck
James

 

[Lindsay Dive]

Wow....26 degrees!

 

[GMK]

drew - here is a web site for a company that makes heaps of essences/concentrates....
they should be able to help you....and it should be cost competitive.

http://www.tastemaster.com.au/

 

[DrewCarey82]

try a search on fruit or look at Ross' banana ale
gotta help yourself 1st

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I did dude but couldnt find anything!