Blueberry ale.
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StompingClover
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I have a blueberry ale made from midwest's liberty cream ale kit, that I'll be bottling tomorrow. The initial taste tests have been outstanding.
My second brew was the NB American Wheat. I bottled 2 gallons and racked the rest onto the juice from 3 pounds of blueberries. Everyone liked it. They all said it was sort of fruity. Nobody could say what kind of fruit though. Next time I will either use more berries or toss in the skins too.
Freezing is really ineffective at killing nasties, but it does a good job of breaking cell walls so the beer can extract as much flavor as possible.
Beer is much more effective at killing nasties though so if you introduce them after fermentation is done you should be fine.
If you are concerned, you can always dip them in Star San.
Beer is much more effective at killing nasties though so if you introduce them after fermentation is done you should be fine.
If you are concerned, you can always dip them in Star San.
cpac2k said:
Get a ziploc and some starsan. Give the bag and berries a quick dunk in starsan and then throw em in the freezer.
cpac2k said:
Yea just sterilize the bag so once you sanitize the blueberries they stay that way in the ziploc.
I would think that a lot of the insides would never see beer if you didn't mash them.
That just doesn't seem fair.
That just doesn't seem fair.
cpac2k said:
Freeze them before you mash them. Other than that you got it.
