Recommendations for Muscadine Ale

[Lumbee]

I was home visiting my folks in southeastern NC over the holidy weekend and picked 3 gallon freezer bags of red muscadine grapes. A quick google search did not yeild much. I found these to links...

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/5-seasons-north-muscadine-ale/79259/

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/muscadine-recipes-37111/

Anyone experimented with Muscadines, or if you know the flavor of the Muscadine reds, do you have a recommendation on a beer I should use? Dark...light. I would really like the grape flavor to come through as much as possible so I am leaning toward something light. Either an American Aile, or Belgium Wit.

 

[chipsmcghee]

i would skip the beer and make mead with them. i am from mississippi and muscadines are fantastic by themselves. ofcourse you know this too but i thought i would add my two cents since i don't have a good ale recipe for them. 3 gallon bags of muscadines sounds really great! enjoy!

 

[Lumbee]

...thanks for the suggestion chips. My family has a winery, so I have all the sweet wine I can drink! Really want to try something different with it.

 

[tugbucket]

You could do a close clone of Midas Touch:

http://www.byo.com/stories/recipein...ntal-beer/2316-dogfish-head-midas-touch-clone

And if you wanted to go sour, you'd probably have to adjust the ABV some but 3 freezer bags of Muscadines aren't going to equal 2 lbs of Muscat grape concentrate.

 

[Lumbee]

...3 freezer bags of Muscadines aren't going to equal 2 lbs of Muscat grape concentrate.

Thanks for the link. I will probably do a half batch, so with 3 gallons (rather than 5) I should have more grape flavor.