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I am glad I'm not the only one who enjoys this one! Too often a fruit beer is over the top fruity, when I was working this recipe up I wanted a beer that tasted like beer and not a wine cooler
GGGsPorter said:Alright, that's how it's going to happen then. Did it turn the beer blue at all?
coonz said:So I am about to start this brew and was wondering what I should do for blueberries. I want a good flavor of blueberry and a blueish color. I leaning towards fresh/frozen blueberries, if anyone can help me out and give any suggestions thanks.
Brewed mine up on Monday brew day turned into 6 hours of fun. Messed up on the OG reading, but looking forward to adding blueberries.
Does anyone have their fermentation schedule? Not sure if I should do 1-2 weeks in primary and how long on fruit in secondary?
Thanks
Anyone try oregon blueberry puree for this? I was listening to the Jamil show and he was raving about how the puree aids in geting consistent results. I was thinking 3 lb or puree in secondary? Thanks!
Yes. It's what Mcmanamins uses in their ruby. I have made both a ruby clone and a blueberry ale with it. In both cases I added to the primary and racked on top.
In the ruby it worked great, perfect clone recipe and the raspberries really shine through.
In the blueberry I can't taste any blueberry at all. I could when I first kegged it but not anymore.
Do you mean you added it to the secondary or did you really add it to the primary? My understanding would be that adding it to the primary will drive of a lot of the aroma due to CO2 escaping, whereas adding in secondary preserves this.
Thanks for your help.
archer75 said:Yes, the primary. Co2 will escape in the secondary as well as there is an airlock on the carboy.
Fermentation is not very vigorous in secondary so more of the subtle flavors and aroma seem to be retained by going secondary with the fruit
We have a bunch of frozen fresh berries left over from the summer and gonna brew this up - I know not the ideal season but what the hell that's what makes home brewing fun, we can do whatever we want. Anyone have pics of finished product?? Any thoughts?
After a few days on the fruit.
I brewed up a batch of this two weeks ago, and added six pounds of puréed blueberries tonight. Those things turn the beer purple really fast. I'm really looking forward to trying this next month.
Figured it out. I had a box checked that shouldn't have been. Brewed this up today. It's gonna sit in primary for 2 weeks before I put it on the berries. Never used sorachi ace before, or FWH, or whole leaf so it was a beer of firsts. My LHBS only had pellet sorachi, but did use whole leaf centennial.
Also, I've got it in Blonde Ale category (light hybrid). Is that pretty accurate? All the numbers were perfect for Blonde Ale. Never brewed a fruit beer before, and this is the lightest SRM beer I've brewed also.
I was wondering could I substitute blueberry pie filling instead of fresh blueberries?
Did you have the centennial addition set as first wort hop? Also have you adjusted the AA%?
Sorry for reviving the old thread but does anyone know how to resolve the beersmith IBU issue? Do I just roll with the recipe as is? I'm showing almost 50 IBUs.
I think it's the way beer smith calculates the first wort hopping addition that causes the issue, I never get complaints about over hoped flavor!
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