Weizenberry

[levin_ae92]

This weekend a weizenberry for the misses, who has discovered she likes raspberry lambics and hoegaarden, so i figured i'd experiment

2.5kg Pils
2.5kg Wheat

15IBU Hallertau pacific @ 60

WY3068 - Weihenstephan Weizen

Not sure how much in the way of raspberries, will use frozen ones, maybe 500g or a kg?

 

[barls]

supermarket of farm fresh ones?
if the super market ones. id use about 1.5kg minimum
if farm fresh then maybe 750g

 

[argon]

When do you add the berries? Like dry hopping? Or cold conditioning?

 

[barls]

id go secondary for at least 2 weeks.

 

[Weizguy]

commercial brewers in the US use berry puree, as a preferred source.

Maybe you can source some?

I plan 2 make cherry ale or 2, with 2.5kg in each.

 

[levin_ae92]

Thanks guys, I'll see if I can track down some pure, and if not I'm gonna use frozen supermarket ones in secondary I reckon, 1 week prim, 1week secondary with berries, bottle and enjoy

 

[levin_ae92]

Went with 1kg of frozen berries, pasteurised with boiling water then mashed with a spud masher and dumped in with the resulting boiled water mixture (cooled of course ). Took a sample about an hour later and its pretty pink with a beautiful raspberry nose, and the raspberry flavour has mixed nicely with the flavour of the beer! I reckon ill probably give the yeast 5 days or so to eat any sugars from the berries and bottle on Monday