Watermelon Wheat

[ultrasuede]

I just started a watermelon beer. I used a mangrove jack bavarian wheat with a copper wheat enhancer that looked very hoppy. My local supplier was out of wyeast as iv'e read that using a 3rd party wheat yeast is better for fruit beer. I'm using Brian's rule from outofkeybrewing.com for the watermelon, which is about 1.5lbs of flesh to 1 gallon of beer, this works out to be around 3kg of flesh for a 23 litre brew. I'm leaving it for 7 days in primary, then racking to secondary for another week before bottling. i'm adding the fruit at second ferment with 500g of lactose, as i'm after a sweet beer. Anyone done anything like this before? I'm thinking of adding some orange rind and strawberrys to balance out the flavour, any thoughts?

 

[ultrasuede]

my label for my brew

 

[PryorBrewing]

Be interested to see how it turns out ?

 

[peas_and_corn]

I recommend you look into the 21st Amendment's Hell or High Watermelon Wheat and see what they do.

 

[jasonharley]

my label for my brew

Nice artwork and the name rocks !!!!!!! even beat my ''Osama Double Tap Lager"

What software did you use??

curious 5 eyes

 

[ultrasuede]

Haha great name. I used a few web generators for the text, and I did the rest in photoshop

 

[ultrasuede]

My brew is ready for secondary next wednesday, and i'm posting a video of adding the fruit