Pluot Beer????

[landhoney]

Not sure I'd have tried this if Mike T hadn't put the idea in my head, I knew Russian River had/s a pluot beer so maybe I'd have tried it anyway(mad props to Mike again though). My plan was, and still is maybe, to use plums in a plambic but I decided to add some pluots to my blackberry sour quad. So now it's kind of a mixed fruit beer.
After listening to the Sunday Session about sour beers, if you can make it through it there is some usable info in there, I decided I wanted to add some more fruit to this beer and I decided on pluots. Not sure of the exact weight, but I added 5 large sliced pluots to ~4.5 gallons of beer that had ~2-3lbs of blackberries already added. My plan is to eventually add some more fruit if I think it needs it.

Anybody had RR's pluot beer? Any experience with plum or pluot beer? Sound awful?

 

[Brewtopia]

I had Russian River's Pluot beer the last time I drove through there about a month or so ago. It was very good. Quite sour and acidic yet I didn't get a very pronounced fruit flavor IIRC. I 'll be driving through again next week. If they still have it available, I'll try it again to refresh my memory and post my thoughts at that time.

 

[artfldodger]

Yeah the pluot flavor in RR's beer was not very pronounced. It was an excellent beer, nice sour tartness, with another flavor I wasn't expecting at all, but then again having never tasted a pluot I'm not quite sure what I was expecting. But your mixed berry quad is already sounding delicious!

 

[r2eng]

My pluot tree is in full bloom! May have to try using some in beer.

Makes incredible barbeque sauce, though!

Eric

 

[Oldsock]

Any update on how yours is tasting Seth? What kind did you use?

I exchanged a few emails with Vinnie recently and the gist of it was that they use a pretty small amount (.5-1 lbs/gallon) and that the higher the proportion of apricot the more sourness you will get. I have ~2 lbs that I quartered/pitted/froze a few weeks ago that will be going into 2.5 gallons of my blended Flanders Pale, Vinnie suggested 12 months on the fruit… so it will be awhile before I know how it turns out. Mine look like the Dapple Dandy shown here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluot