Cranberry Brew

Been a while since I posted, glad to be back...

So I'm thinking of doing a winter brew using cranberries (I know, it's a little late to be thinking cranberries, but a couple of my friends have convinced me), and I thought of using a cranberry relish recipe my mom makes for the secondary fermenter/aging side of things. All she does is food process one bag of whole cranberries, one orange, peel and everything, and apple. I think I'd need maybe a triple batch to rack the beer onto.

Can anybody give me any advice or have an opinion on this? Also, what hops and yeast combo would be a good idea?

Thanks so much. Happy Holidays to all.

I guess if nobody's going to comment or has any ideas, I'll just brew it and hope for the best.

I brewed a cranberry ale recently. I'd recommend using cranberry juice, it's a big mess working with cranberries. It was very, very dry and tart (I tried for something with high residual gravity but it still came out very low FG). I don't think you'll need to worry too much about yeast with this one, something neutral should work fine.

Sorry I can't help you personally. Here are some cranberry beer recipe I found. I'd recommend going with a neutral dry yeast or Wyeast/White Labs American Ale Yeast.

http://www.astray.com/recipes/?show=Cranberry beer
http://www.brew-dudes.com/thanksgiving-cranberry-wheat-ale/117
http://members.aol.com/brewwizard/rec1996.html#Dec1995
http://***********/recipe/201.html

Hmmmm, don't think that I'd much like cranberries in beer (too strong of a tart taste) but my cranberry/grape wine is wonderful wonderful stuff