Mango Habanero Wheat Ale

[blascar]

Also 12-15 mangoes sounds like a lot. But those suckers are a pain to cut up. I prefer not to take a lot of time cutting them up and probably lose a good amount of them when I'm cutting but mangoes are no fun to deal with.

 

[rgregoryirving]

They certainly are a pain. Honestly, If/when I brew this beer again I think I'll opt to go with frozen mango chunks from the grocery store.

 

[copenrc]

blascar,rgregoryirving: I plan to cut and freeze them, should i take them out and let sit in star-san for a few minutes before adding to carboy? I'm brewing this friday, making my starter tonight. Using your recipe rgregoryirving (being that I'm not at the AG level yet) anything you would change other than the amount of mangos? sorry for all the questions just never added fruit before, again thanks to you both for the help!

 

[rgregoryirving]

I wouldn't bother with the star-san for the fruit, since your adding it to the secondary there is already alcohol in your beer- that being one of the reasons for adding it to the secondary.

The only other thing from blascar's original recipe that I would stress is that you definitely do NOT want to leave the habs in the secondary for any longer than 48 hours, those 2 days are certainly enough for the beer to get that heat kick.

 

[ten80]

try washing the ripe mangoes with soap and water then cutting them up on a sanitized cutting board. Put the chunks in a zip-lock with a very small amount of properly-diluted star-san (~1 oz) and squish them around to get good contact. Toss the zip-lock in the freezer for 48 hrs or so to help break up the cells in the fruit. You can even thaw and re-freeze several times to really make mango mush. Then you just have to thaw and pour the mush into your fermenter when you are ready.

The small amount of star-san will not damage the fruit or add any flavor. I did this with plums last summer and had no infections in my beer even though the plums were extremely ripe and on the verge of fermenting.

 

[mmmooretx]

Sounds very tasty and I may have to try it. However I would probably run the mangos through my juicer or blender and freeze them into cubes as I ferment in a conical fermenter and want no blockages in my dump capability. I just need to figure out how many cubes to a mango...
Thanks for the inputs!
Mike

 

[copenrc]

So I brewed this Fri along with a IPA. I used 1 1/2 habs in the boil and followed the recipe. My OG was high(1.091) don't know how I ended up short on my water, anyway tasted my gravity sample and tasted no heat. Brought gravity down to 1.062 and tasted again, no heat. For those that brewed this have/did you taste the OG sample and was there heat??
Brewed the IPA and all was good on the OG, maybe a brain fart on first batch!

 

[rgregoryirving]

I did not taste the sample of the wort before the primary, however I did sample after the primary before I began making additions. I did not taste heat either, truth be told I really thought the hop aroma/flavor came through nicely before the additions. The source of the heat definitely comes more from the habaneros being added to the secondary.

 

[copenrc]

kegged my beer on 3-26-rgregoryirving gravity reading was 1.011. Force carbed and let sit 24 hours, pulled 1 glass and was ok( seemed to have a bitter taste, like peel/rhine) not strong but it was there. Anyway let it sit for 2 days and actually seemed to smooth out. Taste a mango on the initial taste but then a slight bit of heat in the throat area. All in all i think its a great idea and a good tasting beer.
Thanks for the help too,rgregoryirving and blascar

 

[g2rnewton]

You may have just helped me to decide my summer beer.


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[copenrc]

forgot to mention a comment from my wife who usually doesn't care for the taste of my home brews. Her comment " This beer might not last too long" she is more of a Coors light style drinker

 

[blhblah1]

I'm about to brew this today. What are anyone's thoughts about adding "sweet" peppers at flameout and in the secondary along with the habs to give more pepper flavor?

 

[downward]

I'm in the middle of making this beer and I brewed the wheat beer and let it in the primary fermenter for 2 weeks and yesterday racked it to the secondary on top of 10 fresh mangoes that I previously cut up and froze. This morning it is fermenting again , is this normal ? ( This is my 1st time adding fruit in a secondary)

any advice is appreciated

thanks
downward

 

[blhblah1]

Mine did the same thing when I added the mangos. I added 5lbs for 2 weeks and I'm pretty sure they completely fermented because I kegged my batch yesterday and could barely taste the mango, so I'm going to try back sweetening with some pure mango juice to balance out the heat.

 

[blascar]

Agreed. Mango doesnt add much flavor but blends nice with the citra hops for aroma and a sweet flavor that mixes well with the heat in my opinion

 

[blascar]

Not sure if I mentioned this, this recipe placed in a North Carolina Homebrew competition recently 3rd place. It was my second batch of it. My first batch was much better I thought, I only added 1 Hab to secondary the second time. so next year I'm going to go back to 2 Habs and go for first place overall

 

[downward]

This recipe sounded interesting so I did my own take on it since I'm a new homebrewer. I used Northern Brewer's American Wheat beer for the base and used 1 Habenero in the boil.

SG was 1.041
2 weeks primary ferm then racked to the secondary with 8 fresh mango cut up.
after 7 days I started to add another pound of store bought frozen mango chunks (thawed out first) every 2 days then I added one habanero cut up for the last 2 days. Total secondary was 2 weeks.
Final SG was 1.05 for a ABV=4.6%

I bottled it and after one week I tasted it yesterday.

Very good mango flavor with a habanero finish, minor heat . My only disappointment was that it doesn't have very good head? Maybe due to the fresh fruit?

 

[nilo]

This recipe sounded interesting so I did my own take on it since I'm a new homebrewer. I used Northern Brewer's American Wheat beer for the base and used 1 Habenero in the boil.

SG was 1.041
2 weeks primary ferm then racked to the secondary with 8 fresh mango cut up.
after 7 days I started to add another pound of store bought frozen mango chunks (thawed out first) every 2 days then I added one habanero cut up for the last 2 days. Total secondary was 2 weeks.
Final SG was 1.05 for a ABV=4.6%

I bottled it and after one week I tasted it yesterday.

Very good mango flavor with a habanero finish, minor heat . My only disappointment was that it doesn't have very good head? Maybe due to the fresh fruit?

Did you add the mango skins also or just the meat? The skin seems to have some oils that could affect head retention. I was planning to brew this and thought on using the skins for extra flavor but it may not be a good idea if you care for a good head.

 

[blascar]

I have always used the meat of the fresh mangoes. Never had a problem with head retention or anything but I've done 2 runs. Maybe it's because you used the frozen chunks. Glad you got the good mango flavor and the slight tingle aftertaste of the habanero. Sounds like you nailed it!

 

[RufioHomebrew]

Going to make this soon--anyone have any idea if it gets better after a few months or even longer?

Thanks

 

[joe_four_strings]

I wanna brew this one at some point, so I comment to be able to find it again.

 

[stlbeer]

Has anyone brewed this recently? I'm planning to do so in a week or two and am looking to see if there are additional comments.

My only experience with using habaneros in beer was with a porter. Then I made an extract of 4 cut up habs (no seeds or white flesh) in 3 cups of vodka. Let them soak for 1 day then removed the peppers. With this 'tincture' I dosed the beer. About 2 cups per 5 gallons. Perfect heat for the porter - lasted 10+ minutes on the tongue and in the throat.