Hello all,
Ready for my third brew. ^^
I'd like to brew a berliner weisse.
I'd follow the general instructions I saw in the youtube video of Caudill. (I will obviously have to work quite a bit to get the specifics.)
A few questions to begin with:
- I'd prefer the taste not to be simple lactic acid. Caudill mentions that you can bottle the berliner weisse with a low level of brettanomyces. Is this a hard thing to pull of as a beginner?
- I'd like to brew the berliner weisse with elderflowers. I like the elderflower syrup and think they could be a good match.
Is there a way to get elderflower into the beer without the acidity making it unnoticable? (Huge quantities of elderflower wouldn't pose a problem.)
- In other posts they recommend giving the elderflower in during the last 5 minutes of the boil. But this kills most of the aroma. Could I also just add it when you'd usually dry-hop? If the risk of infection is too high, could I add it while cooling down at around 80C?
(- If elderflower isn't a good idea, I could also imagine using red currants.)
Thank you very much for your help,
Tulbi
Ready for my third brew. ^^
I'd like to brew a berliner weisse.
I'd follow the general instructions I saw in the youtube video of Caudill. (I will obviously have to work quite a bit to get the specifics.)
A few questions to begin with:
- I'd prefer the taste not to be simple lactic acid. Caudill mentions that you can bottle the berliner weisse with a low level of brettanomyces. Is this a hard thing to pull of as a beginner?
- I'd like to brew the berliner weisse with elderflowers. I like the elderflower syrup and think they could be a good match.
Is there a way to get elderflower into the beer without the acidity making it unnoticable? (Huge quantities of elderflower wouldn't pose a problem.)
- In other posts they recommend giving the elderflower in during the last 5 minutes of the boil. But this kills most of the aroma. Could I also just add it when you'd usually dry-hop? If the risk of infection is too high, could I add it while cooling down at around 80C?
(- If elderflower isn't a good idea, I could also imagine using red currants.)
Thank you very much for your help,
Tulbi