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**Bearcat Brewmeister** · 11-28-2008, 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by alex_wilkosz

I am an extract brewer wondering if anyone has a good Cranberry Beer recipe!

Thanks! Trying to find something the SWMBO would like that is not a regular beer

I looked in the threads and didnt find much info and was wondering if anyone could help me out here

I posted something a while back that had traces from my memory of a Cranberry beer recipe I made that turned out nice.

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Originally Posted by UnaBonger

Would you crush/puree the whole cranberries or drop in whole? I'm contemplating a Cranberry Kolsch and am stuck on how/when to introduce the cranberries... I'm also wondering if some sort of sweetening agent needs to be introduced as cranberries arent really all that sweet on their own...

I think the flavor is pretty minimal, so I pureed to increase the contact area. Also add either in secondary (after heating pureed cranberries to 160F for a bit to kill the bugs) or after shutoff and wort has cooled below 180F or so(don't want to make jellied cranberries in your wort). I think sweetening is a mistake - I believe the tartness/acidity you taste from cranberries is the main flavor they contribute and adding sugar will neutralize that, leaving little or no contribution from the fruit. I would personally add cranberries to a beer that would benefit from tartness yet is clean enough on its own that you will pick up the subtle flavor of cranberries, which is how I came up with a Cranberry Belgian Wit.

martyboi68 · 10-18-2011, 04:03 PM

Ive made a cranberry ale every xmas for the past 5 years and ive found that darker stronger ales are better than lighter beers, it seems to give a dry flavor to a strong sweetish recipe and the beer is much improved by it, the beer i make is based on 12 pounds pale malt, 6 oz choc malt 3/4 pound crystal malt, 1/2 pound of amber malt, 4 0z hops fuggles, 4ltrs cranberry juice, 2lb dark sugar, i normaly keg my brew but this i bottle in 1 pint bottles, needs about 2-3 months in the bottle, this is for 5 galls and if a good infusion is made you should end up with an O.G of 1065, the first cranberry ale i made was a bout 1085 but found this to strong.

Mat416 · 11-13-2012, 06:34 PM

I did a cranberry wheat out of the Brooklyn BeerShop's Beer Making Book. I used frozen Cranberries and I doubled them for the recipe. It was a hit at my last party so you should search that out if you are still interested.