Fruit Beer Succulent Strawberry Blonde

[Joe9216]

I did this beer with a little difference as to the amts were what i had on hand without a trip to my LHBS and it is good even right out of the secondary. here is my recipe.

8oz carapils steeped at 155 for 30m
3lbs Pilsen light DME 60m
.5oz cascade 60m
3lbs pilsen dme 30m
1lbs wheat dme 30m
.5oz saaz 20m
1/4tsp super irish moss 15m
.5oz saaz 5m

WLP060 American Ale yeast w/ starter

8lbs fresh quartered strawberries in secondary.

carb with 5oz corn sugar for 4-5wks.

This turned out to be about 5.7%abv with an almost perfect complimentary hop notes at 13.8 IBU's.

This has a definite spot in my rotation now.

 

[richlong8020]

Instead of racking on top of the berries can't you blend the fruit and put it into a grain bag. The clean up would be easier. Add the bag to the bucket an rack when ready for bottling.


~RDWHAHB~

 

[darksideofjae]

Brewed this up a couple weeks ago. Just moved it into the Tertiary. Tasted the sample and Man this stuff was good. Original gravity reading wasn't good as i didn't have a thief. I have a thief now and took a gravity reading when moving to the tertiary and came up at 1.012. Can't wait to try this sometime in mid august.

 

[10borderline11brew]

how long should it sit in the tertiary

 

[SupervisingChildren]

how long should it sit in the tertiary

A week should be sufficient to drop more yeast and strawberry stuff.

 

[Bluelinebrewer]

Agreed. A week is plenty good!

 

[darksideofjae]

Brewed this up a couple weeks ago. Just moved it into the Tertiary. Tasted the sample and Man this stuff was good. Original gravity reading wasn't good as i didn't have a thief. I have a thief now and took a gravity reading when moving to the tertiary and came up at 1.012. Can't wait to try this sometime in mid august.

So after sitting for a while i just cracked open the first one and it's not bad, but this may sound weird but the first taste i get when it enters my mouth is Bondo, but it's brief and i can't figure out why. Infection maybe?

 

[Bluelinebrewer]

Interesting. Can't say as I've ever experienced that. What brand of strawberries did you use?

 

[darksideofjae]

Interesting. Can't say as I've ever experienced that. What brand of strawberries did you use?

Got them from Trader Joes. Talking to a buddy of mine he's thinking it may have been the temps it was sitting at. They were sitting at around 70ish degrees in the primary but it definitely got hot in my basement one weekend when i was away when it was sitting in my secondary (75ish) and while it was in the Tertiary.

Will probably brew this again but not until i build a fermentation chamber. This will hopefully allow me to better control the temps.

Edit: Excerpt from our conversation

Not sure how accurate my first OG was but here's the following:
OG: 1.030
FG: 1.012
Sat in Primary for 2 weeks
Racked over to strawberry and I tried not to bring any trub with it, Sat in Secondary for 9 days
Racked into Tertiary and let it sit for 2 more weeks.
All temps were about 70 Degrees
Did not cold crash before transferring to bottles.

Edit. Pt2: Just talking to my wife about it now and she mentioned too that it didn't have that taste when we tasted it while bottling. So not sure if it's maybe just that bottle or if there's really something going on.

 

[Bluelinebrewer]

Hard to tell. This is one that does some good aging for a couple of weeks. Give it a couple weeks and try it again. IIRC, someone said it tastes best around the 6 week mark. I haven't brewed this one in a long time, been trying to nail down my AG version.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

OG seems really low. What recipe did you follow?

 

[Bluelinebrewer]

Good catch, didn't even see that!

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Good catch, didn't even see that!

After 15+ variations of this imperial panty dropper, that is my go to, I try to remember where it should start at. Mine is usually 1.07-1.076 with a FG of 1.014-1.016. I use all liquid, 2 pilsner light and one Bavarian wheat.

 

[Bluelinebrewer]

Lol. It's been so long since I've brewed it, I don't even remember. But, I completely missed his OG!

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Hard to tell. This is one that does some good aging for a couple of weeks. Give it a couple weeks and try it again. IIRC, someone said it tastes best around the 6 week mark. I haven't brewed this one in a long time, been trying to nail down my AG version.

Soooooooo, when you gonna make the AG version? Bwahahahah

1.050-1.054 is. Pretty spot on OG IIRC.

 

[Bluelinebrewer]

Soooooooo, when you gonna make the AG version? Bwahahahah

1.050-1.054 is. Pretty spot on OG IIRC.

Funny you mention that Ginger! So, I brewed my AG version back in December, bottled it in January. Tasted it 3 weeks later and it had a weird taste, almost plastic like. I kinda wrote off the whole batch, and stuck it down in the basement. Last night I grabbed one, stuck it in the fridge and let it chill. Tried it out this evening... BOOM!! Tastes great!! I even looked back at our old PMs from a while back to get your address, so I could send you some...

 

[darksideofjae]

OG seems really low. What recipe did you follow?

The original recipe on the front page. I also might've pitched the yeast too early (pitched around 72 degrees). Will drink this batch as it's not horrible and who knows, maybe it was just that one bottle since when I was drinking the tests they were all good.

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Funny you mention that Ginger! So, I brewed my AG version back in December, bottled it in January. Tasted it 3 weeks later and it had a weird taste, almost plastic like. I kinda wrote off the whole batch, and stuck it down in the basement. Last night I grabbed one, stuck it in the fridge and let it chill. Tried it out this evening... BOOM!! Tastes great!! I even looked back at our old PMs from a while back to get your address, so I could send you some...

Awesome. Would love to have one! Lemme know if you dont find the address.

 

[cevvw9]

First attempt at this recipe with a few modifications. Pictures are of day 1 and day 10 of fermentation.

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[jmtonkin]

The fiancee racked it to the secondary last night! She told me that it already tasted great without the strawberries, so I'm excited to see how it tastes with the strawberries!View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1428948876.640415.jpg

 

[bboykin87]

The fiancee racked it to the secondary last night! She told me that it already tasted great without the strawberries, so I'm excited to see how it tastes with the strawberries!View attachment 270877

When I first brewed this recipe about 2 years ago I did half strawberry and I left half without and they both were great. Once the strawberry reaches the "sweet" spot it tastes so good!

 

[jmtonkin]

Update:

My fiancée racked it to the tertiary tonight! She told me that it has a very strong strawberry flavor, but that it's "delicious!"

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[JeanClaudeEstevez]

I'm two weeks into this recipe, and I have a heavy (pun intended) question about gravity.

I was originally light on extract by about the equivalent of .8 lbs less LME than the original recipe, so I was expecting my OG to be a little lower. My OG was 1.050 and I used the WYeast smack pack.

After 9 days in the primary at about 66*, my airlock was still showing activity and my gravity was 1.022, so I know fermentation was not complete. I went ahead and decided to rack it on the berries anyway to rush this batch for a planned vacation next month.

I racked onto 8lbs of strawberries and added 1/2 pound of lactose. After 5 days on the berries, I took a SG reading with my hydrometer last night at 1.010. This is great, I'm going to take another reading before racking to the tertiary to be sure this is my FG.

My question is, since I added the lactose to my frozen berries, how many gravity points to I need to deduct from my FG to get a meaningful number? I've read that I should deduct 1.042 pppg for lactose, or in my case (1/2 lb in 5 gallons) would deduct .0042 gravity points from my final reading, but that would give me a FG of 1.0058, which seems very low relative to other posters here.

I also seem to have an issue with seeds or other particulates (attached photo) that seemed to be suspended in my sample last night, but I'm not too worried since it will spend a week in the tertiary. I may try to filter it somehow in the bottling bucket.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

I usually go from 1.076 down to 1.017-1.012 on my variation of this recipe. I'd just recheck the gravity after the week in tertiary and if it's still the same, bottle it up.

 

[jaydlaw]

I'm going to have to try this one! From the op's recipe, the only thing I might change is lme for DME.

 

[Steve3730]

This will be my attempt this weekend will mash with 4 gallons of water and sparge with 2 gallons. If this sounds off please point it out. Only my second attempt at partial mash.

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[josh51710]

Did anybody brew this AG ?

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Did anybody brew this AG ?

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=241879

 

[skitter]

My mistake was trying a full 2.5g batch in a Mr Beer keg... This should be interesting... Wiped everything down with clorox wipes as I went just in case but I did not get anything in direct contact with the beer.

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[skitter]

Are the strawberries supposed to be floating in top in a foam? Will they settle into the beer later?