Wheat beer

[shrades]

Sitting here enjoying my first home brew! Awsome!!! For my next one I want to brew a wheat(I think) and add a rasberry or some other fruit extract to it. I have fruit at my house and friends houses, but here in Iowa right now aliitle out of season. I did a kit beer last time so I was wondering maybe useing a weisenbier and adding fruit to it at the end? Open to any ideas.
Thanks shrades

 

[Professor Frink]

There are multiple options. You can add real fruit, which is tough, and you need to pasteurize or sanitize. You can add fruit extract, which I've found works well for certain flavors (apricot for example). Generally, you add a couple ounces of this to secondary or bottling. Or you can add fruit puree (Oregon Products makes a good product for this), which is my preferred method. The amount you add depends on the flavor and the beer, but it's easy enough to find out.

 

[size]

Ha, where ya at in Iowa, OP?

Woodward, here.

 

[shrades]

I live in North Liberty, North Of Iowa city. Were are you located it?

 

[Cpt_Kirks]

I have done two cherry wheats recently, one with extract and one with fruit. True, the extract is easier. However, the beer made with fruit is much tastier.

I used a combination of canned tart cherries and frozen black cherries, 5 lbs total. I mashed them with a potato masher, heated them to 170*, cooled them, put them in a Better Bottle, then racked the wheat beer from the primary on top of them.

I kegged the beer a week later. It turned out very tasty.

 

[shrades]

Even Looks tasty!

 

[shrades]

Did you say you are from Woodward, Size? Where is that at in our great warm state of Iowa.

 

[nvr2low]

I have done two cherry wheats recently, one with extract and one with fruit. True, the extract is easier. However, the beer made with fruit is much tastier.

I used a combination of canned tart cherries and frozen black cherries, 5 lbs total. I mashed them with a potato masher, heated them to 170*, cooled them, put them in a Better Bottle, then racked the wheat beer from the primary on top of them.

I kegged the beer a week later. It turned out very tasty.

i have been drooling over this pic since i joined the site. my first 5 gallon is fermenting now and i know every one says not to mess with your first couple beers but im thinking i might break it up and add cherry or raspberry to half. i have a hard time leaving anything alone so to think i wouldn't mod my beer right away is completely out of character!

 

[Cpt_Kirks]

I NEVER leave a kit alone. I always have to mess with it. It may just be adding some sugar, but I can't leave well enough alone.

Sure, I have made some messes, but that's how you learn.

Splitting batches is good. You can experiment, but still have your unmodified base beer to fall back on.

That batch of cherry wheat (Solo Cherry Wheat) was my first "non-kit" batch, BTW. I came up with the recipe on my own. It came out TOO STRONG (7.5% ABV), but I learned to cut down on the sugar...

(It is DANGEROUS. It tastes very good, but will knock you on your ass!)

:cross:

 

[alpo]

7.5% with cherries sounds like a recipe for a brutal hangover.

 

[Cpt_Kirks]

7.5% with cherries sounds like a recipe for a brutal hangover.

New Year's Day was not a good day.