Germelli1
Well-Known Member
...and I'm happy about it!
I tried putting together my very own recipe for the first time. I tried to design it to be a very light bodied ale so the raspberry flavors didn't get masked. I popped the fermenter and the hydromer reading calculated out to be 6.3%. I tasted the fermented ale today while bottling and from the warm, flat beer I was able to make a few observations:
1. The body is a very light body, the hops as well as the grains don't dominate as much as I figured they would.
2. The remaining raspberries that were added when racked to a secondary looked bleached white, and the beer had a great but balanced raspberry flavor.
Basically it was lacking the amount of body I was shooting for. However I think this is actually a great thing, because now I have something I think the SWMBO will really like, and possibly a great beer to take to the beach in a month!
I tried putting together my very own recipe for the first time. I tried to design it to be a very light bodied ale so the raspberry flavors didn't get masked. I popped the fermenter and the hydromer reading calculated out to be 6.3%. I tasted the fermented ale today while bottling and from the warm, flat beer I was able to make a few observations:
1. The body is a very light body, the hops as well as the grains don't dominate as much as I figured they would.
2. The remaining raspberries that were added when racked to a secondary looked bleached white, and the beer had a great but balanced raspberry flavor.
Basically it was lacking the amount of body I was shooting for. However I think this is actually a great thing, because now I have something I think the SWMBO will really like, and possibly a great beer to take to the beach in a month!