reviled
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Glad this turned out well with all the hard work rev! You have spurred me on to make some fruit beers soon!
Sorry mate, just remembered I was sposed to give you the low down!!
I used 1.5kg of frozen cranberries in the end for 10 litres, thawed and refroze them about 4 times to try and kill/slow any bugs and help break down the cell wall, then just blended them and added to the fermenter lined with a BIAB bag, no bits in the keg which was awesome..
Without referring to my notes, from memory I had an OG of about 1040 and 20 IBU, next time ill drop the IBU down to 10 as with the bitterness the acidity of the cranberries comes through alot more, the only thing stopping this beer from being perfect is that its not sweet enough - typical eh, I chose cranberries to avoid a sweet fruit beer, and end up with the complete opposite
Ive been mixing it half and half with normal cream ale and its perfect!! Nice amount of fruit flavour and aroma, but nicely balanced on the palate :icon_drool2: