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ratinator

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Recipe Type
All Grain
Yeast
S-05
Yeast Starter
No
Batch Size (Gallons)
6
Original Gravity
1.042
Final Gravity
1.010
Boiling Time (Minutes)
60
IBU
16.8
Color
3.6
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
7
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
14
Tasting Notes
nice and light with a banana/strawberry smell and flavor
I am still quite new to all grain brewing (did about 6 batches now, 1 being blue moon clone and other the watermelon wheat) and I have been typically using other brewer's recipes, but being summer I designed this beer:

7.5lbs Pale Malt 2 Row
.5lbs Cara-Pils/Dextrine
.5lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt 10L
Mash @ 152F 60mins

1.15oz Saaz @ 60mins
1tsp Irish Moss @ 10mins

Secondary (racked on)
.75lbs Lactose (boiled with 2 cups of water)
4lbs Strawberries (cut, frozen, thawed)
6lbs Bananas (cut, frozen, thawed)
I added all these to one container and egg beated them together

I did run into some issues. There was a lot of fruit in the secondary for the 23L carboy and within 48hrs this thing really took off. A bunch of fruit was pushed into the blow off bucket and the blow off tube actually plugged and shot off the top and hit the ceiling. On my next try I'm going to puree the mixture, as I used a egg beater this time (I didn't know). This beer is cold crashing right now and it has been for 3 days. Everything starting to drop and I had a sample today. It had a good banana/strawberry smell, strawberry on the back and banana up front. It was a nice light beer, and the flavors weren't overpowering. I added lactose to give it a more"smoothie cream" flavor, I didn't notice it too much in sample so I may add another .25lb when kegging. Ill be anxious to try it once its carbed. This is the v1.0, so I'm going to make necessary changes.

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Sounds good. A simple base beer to allow the maximum fruit flavor to shine through.

I did a triple berry beer, and yeah, blew the bung clean out. Had to Kilz the brew closet. :drunk:
 
I had a similar incident myself with a strawberry wheat I just did. The morning after adding the strawberries I went downstairs to check and there was a big red puddle seeping out of the fridge, it looked like the bodies I was keeping in there were thawing out. Probably lost half the strawberries I added.

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So the beer was cold crashed and kegged. Beer turned out very nice. It's very nice and light and has that bit of creamy mouthful. The banana overpowered the strawberry so changes for next time v2.0:
1. Use 4 lbs of banana and 4 lbs of strawberry.
2. When switching from primary to secondary I'm going to syphon it from primary to primary (I got 3) so the fruit has more room to breathe.

Here's a pic of the finish glass with nice head and lace. My chocolate milk stout is draining in background

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It's starting to warm up here again, I got a hull melon pale ale I'm brewing and then I'm gonna take a shot at my v 2.0. Like I said I'm going to do 4lbs of each and I decided to up the lactose to 1lb. I'm a lot more confident with my brewing setup and this should be a breeze now
 
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