Airght, so I'm trying to put together a clone of Abita's strawberry harvest. Not sure how many people have had it, but this is what I know about this beer.
SRM 5
IBU - 12
ABV - 4.2
It's a "wheat lager", which has always seemed a bit anti-intuitive to me. This is what Abita says is in this beer...
It's a lager with a mixture of wheat and pilsner malts, mt. hood hops and strawberry juice added after filtering.
From these specs I'm trying to formulate my recipe. I was thinking something like the following..
4 lbs wheat LME
2 lbs pilsen LME
.5 oz mt. hood @ 45
.5 oz mt. hood @ 15
Pilsner Lager yeast from WL??
5 or 6 lbs of strawberry's pulvarized and pasteurized to a sort of "pulp" or juice for and added to secondary for 1 week before kegging.
I think the ingredients will get the beer part pretty close, but I'm not sure how to brew this to get the haze in the beer while still lagering. Also, when and how much strawberry to add?? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!!
SRM 5
IBU - 12
ABV - 4.2
It's a "wheat lager", which has always seemed a bit anti-intuitive to me. This is what Abita says is in this beer...
It's a lager with a mixture of wheat and pilsner malts, mt. hood hops and strawberry juice added after filtering.
From these specs I'm trying to formulate my recipe. I was thinking something like the following..
4 lbs wheat LME
2 lbs pilsen LME
.5 oz mt. hood @ 45
.5 oz mt. hood @ 15
Pilsner Lager yeast from WL??
5 or 6 lbs of strawberry's pulvarized and pasteurized to a sort of "pulp" or juice for and added to secondary for 1 week before kegging.
I think the ingredients will get the beer part pretty close, but I'm not sure how to brew this to get the haze in the beer while still lagering. Also, when and how much strawberry to add?? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!!