Welp, we all got Covid and I'm locked down on a quarantine. Let's brew!
I couldn't find my LME, but I have a bunch of hops and fruit I wanted to use.
All fruit was fresh when frozen.
1 gallon bag of frozen grapes
.5 gallon bag of frozen blackberries
.5 gallon bag of frozen blueberries
Small pack of frozen strawberries
2 toasted pie crusts (not used at Thanksgiving)
2 lb of table sugar
Then I just dumped all my Newport hops for boil and eyeballed Northern Brewer and Crystal hops about 10 minutes after flameout.
It was VERY sweet and VERY bitter so I topped off with a little more cold water and about a cup more sugar.
I almost added some oats just to add them, but I am just trying to use stuff up from the fruit picking season and unused ingredients from the holidays.
I have the new Still, so if it's not a great brewz I'll see if it makes an ok spirit.
It's my trash can hard seltzer? Gorgeous shade of purple, by the way.
I couldn't find my LME, but I have a bunch of hops and fruit I wanted to use.
All fruit was fresh when frozen.
1 gallon bag of frozen grapes
.5 gallon bag of frozen blackberries
.5 gallon bag of frozen blueberries
Small pack of frozen strawberries
2 toasted pie crusts (not used at Thanksgiving)
2 lb of table sugar
Then I just dumped all my Newport hops for boil and eyeballed Northern Brewer and Crystal hops about 10 minutes after flameout.
It was VERY sweet and VERY bitter so I topped off with a little more cold water and about a cup more sugar.
I almost added some oats just to add them, but I am just trying to use stuff up from the fruit picking season and unused ingredients from the holidays.
I have the new Still, so if it's not a great brewz I'll see if it makes an ok spirit.
It's my trash can hard seltzer? Gorgeous shade of purple, by the way.
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