Todays Brew - Raspberry Blonde

[austinb]

Rasberry Blonde Ale
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Brewer: Austin
Style: Blonde Ale
Batch: 5.00 gal, All Grain

Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.058 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 21 IBU
Recipe Color: 8° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.015
Alcohol by Volume: 5.6%
Alcohol by Weight: 4.4%

Ingredients
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American two-row 10.00 lb, Grain, Mashed
Toasted malt 0.50 lb, Grain, Mashed

Cascade 0.25 oz, Whole, 5 minutes
Cascade 0.75 oz, Whole, 50 minutes

American Ale yeast Yeast
Frozen Raspberries two 12oz packages
Irish Moss 1/4 tsp
gypsum 1 tsp

Notes
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Recipe Notes:
-Mash with at 152F for 60 mins with 13qts water and 1 tsp gypsum.
-Bring 11qts water to 170F for batch sparging.
-bring the wort to a boil and add the first hops as soon as it boils.
-It the last 5 mins add 1/4tsp irish moss and the finishing hops.
-let sit in primary for 1 week.
-put two 12 oz packages of frozen raspberries in a sauce pan and fill with just enough water to cover berries.
-heat mixture to 160F for 20 mins and empty into the bottom of secondary and rack beer on top.

 

[bhizzy1]

This looks good, is this something you've done before?

 

[austinb]

Nope. I've seen lots of recipes for raspberry wheat beers but I couldn't find one for a blonde ale so I made my own. A lot of the recipes I saw called for 3lbs of raspberries but they also commented on the raspberry flavor being really strong so I cut back in order to make it more subtle. You could probably add more raspberries depending on your personal preference.

 

[austinb]

I might actually heat the fruit for only a few minutes instead of 20, just long enough to kill any wild yeasts and if any bacteria remains the alcohol in the already fermented beer will take care of it quickly before it can do any harm much like dry hopping.

 

[bhizzy1]

Awesome, let me know how it turns out and I might just have to give it a try.