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Hi All:

Below is a simple Blackberry wheat recipe that I'm planning on trying this sunday but am looking for some opinions on the recipe. What do you guys think? It seems like a lot of blackberries to me....

2lbs Carapils
6lbs DME

3.5 quarts (14 cups) Frozen blackberries (added after knockout)

1.5 ozHallatter hops (bittering)
.5 Saazhops (finishing)

1 tspIrish moss

Appreciate your input.

Thanks!

david_42

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I'd say it's excessive, but I like my fruit wheats on the subtle side. Had a Strawberry Wheat yesterday that had so much strawberry in it, it was impossible to tell it was beer.

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2 pounds of carapils seems like a lot.

What's that quantity of blackberries in terms of weight, any idea?

Bopper

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Just quickly estimating the weight....
2.5 quarts = 5 dry pints @ 8oz per pint = 40 oz / 16 oz per pound = 2.5 pounds of rasberries.

Also, all that sugar in the rasberries + 6 lbs of DME is a heck of a lot of fermentables...I'm not sure if the carapills and and hops will be enough to balance it out.

Am I off base here?

Evan!

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blackberries aren't very sweet and their flavor is very subtle, so the amount sounds right to me. The carapils is way too high, though. You'll end up with a very sweet final beer, I would imagine.

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You generally want to hop fruit beers pretty low, I often see ~ 18 IBUs as the recommended amount, and I wouldn't bother trying to account for the fruit sugars in your calculations with the bitterness.

I'm not sure why you think carapils will help balance the raspberries, though.