• Please visit and share your knowledge at our sister communities:
  • If you have not, please join our official Homebrewing Facebook Group!

    Homebrewing Facebook Group

Raspberry wheat critique

Homebrew Talk

Help Support Homebrew Talk:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

JoeK

Member
Joined
Nov 17, 2015
Messages
11
Reaction score
3
Location
Portland and Chicago
I'm a new extract brewer! I found this recipe on another website and made the beer in late summer and by now have almost finished all of it. I followed the recipe and the beer turned out quite well, except it had pretty poor head retention. I apologize for the lack of detail in the recipe.

"Recipe Type: extract
Yield: 5 gallons

Description:
This beer has a very nice mild raspberry flavor, aroma, and color.

Ingredients:
• 2 cans, Alexanders pale malt extract
• 2 pounds, rice extract syrup
• 1 ounce, Cascades hops
• 8 pounds, frozen raspberries
• Edme ale yeast
plus a bottle of extract (type of extract?)

Procedure:
I used about 8 lbs (11 12oz pkgs) and it turned out wonderfully, not at all overly raspberry-like. I blended them with just enough water to make a slurry and added it to the cooled wort (seeds, skins and all). I also added 2 campden tablets to ward off infection. It seems to have worked. No pectin haze at all. I racked into a secondary and left most of the raspberry sludge behind.
Source: Michael Yandrasits"

The beer had a wonderful raspberry taste that wasn't overwhelming by any means. It was very refreshing and I enjoyed it very much. As I said, it had poor head retention. Any suggestions to better this recipe, or how to improve the head retention, are more than welcome!
 
Sure - change out that rice extract for some wheat extract. That will improve the head and actually put some wheat in your wheat beer. :)
 
Back
Top