Fruit Beer Wild Strawberry Blonde

[WildGingerBrewing]

Since your first hop addition is at 60 min there is no need for a longer boil. You are just boiling off good beer for no reason.

 

[TX-straggler]

How long do I sanitize the strawberries before freezing.
Thanks

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

How long do I sanitize the strawberries before freezing.
Thanks

I buy them frozen so i dont know.

 

[TX-straggler]

Holy crap!!!
Week 3 and this beer is still blowing up all over the place !!!! Gonna cold crash next week and then force carb, tap on the 10th for the ladies of the family reunion. I know it's rushed as far as tertiary ad all that , buy I got a good feeling about this beer!!!

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Keep us posted on finished product.

 

[TX-straggler]

 

[TX-straggler]

 

[TX-straggler]

Can't wait till this weekend, drew a little off when I kegged her yesterday and WOW!! It's right on the money.
We are having this Strawberry Blonde, A Rye Blonde, and a honey orange Blonde , at our family reunion this weekend . Should be a good day of craft beer festivities!!

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Very nice!

 

[mathewchaff]

I ended up brewing some last night hope it turns out well ill keep you updated

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

Will be brewing this Saturday...already have a strong belgian tripel, and a pumpkin beer, so need something lighter/fruitier to fill out my 3 kegs.

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Great. Good luck. Keep us posted on how it turns out!

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

Ha, thought I was further off the og, but my batch ended up around 5.5 gallons with the same grains and I got about a 1.56 reading, so going good about this one

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Sounds like it is going in the right direction!

 

[TX-straggler]

Never did update y'all last month. Turned out fantastic. It was a hit at the reunion !

 

[TX-straggler]

 

[TX-straggler]

This single pic is early on.
This double pic is after a couple weeks rest. Cleared up nice and stayed crisp for quite a while.

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Looks awesome!!

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

Well mine is at 1.010 after 6 days, getting the reading aggravated it a bit so it's bubbling again, gonna check tomorrow then probably throw the strawberries in unless you have a reason i should wait 12 like you. I think the berries I got should work great, all bright red through out, I thawed one and it was just oozing juice into the bowl...No way I'd consider these great strawberries to eat as the are kinda mushy thawed and i like crisp berries, but taste wise it was good. Found a local store, Fred Meyers for those in Oregon that sell 4 lb bags which made it easy.

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

1.010 sounds awesome! I leave mine two weeks mostly because i brew, rack and bottle on the weekends. So when i brew it's two weeks before i can rack. If it's done, go for it. The berries sound like they will be great!

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

Oh another thing, you didn't seem to put the berries in a bag, is there a reason? The other strawberry beers all seem to, they say that without it you get a lot of seeds that float and can be hard to filter out.

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

No real reason. Just never have. A buddy of mine does and his last batch came out clearer than mine. I always felt like since you are racking again you can avoid some of the seeds and stuff. It certainly wouldn't hurt to put them in a bag but make it a big bag.

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

Dying for this Saturday, ill probably just be cold crashing and carbing at the same time in the keg in my keezer, then just pulling the sediment out on the first few pints The liquid that came out into the bucket with strawberries was so damn clear, you could hardly even tell there was liquid flowing through the siphon. Then i put the strawberries in and my bucket instantly turned pink lol...god i hope it doesnt stain the inside

Im wondering if i should bother with gelatin or not, i did use whirlflock in the boil...guess ill take a look at a bit when i move it to the keg to see if it needs it.

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

So tasted this today and its interesting, both me and the gf almost got more of a grapefruit smell and flavor from it, I'm wondering if it's just the tartness. I plan on moving it into my keg tomorrow with some gelatin to clear it up. Has anyone ever back sweetened this? Since I'm going to be kegging this I may throw some sugar of some sort into it, since at 40f the yeast shouldn't be active. Gonna try it cold and carbonated before I make a decision though.

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Never tried to backsweeten. I wouldn want it that sweet personally. This beer usually mellows very well and some of that tartness will disappear.

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

It tastes good, just not like strawberry's like i said...atleast thats not the first thing that would come to mind. If i gave this to someone and told them it was a grapefruit beer they would never second guess We'll see how it comes out im probably not going to backsweeten. Its in the keezer kegged with some gelatin, since i didnt go into a tertiary for 7 days to clear it...just hoping to cold crash it all out with some gelatin. Maybe some of the flavor profile i was getting was from all the suspended yeast in the keg....we shall see!

 

[FuzzeWuzze]

So not sure what i did wrong, but mine is cloudy as hell...not sure if its chill haze or what. I didnt go into a tertiary, i went straight into a keg with gelatin figuring that it would clear out and everything would settle and i'd pull the yeast/trub off in the first few pints. Its been over a week @ 40F and probably 6 pints and still cloudy like a hefe....

Interesting note though, i accidentally left a half glass on my desk for a few days and it settled out clear with sediment at the bottom.

The beer is becoming a lot more tasty now though, it was a bit tart the first few days.

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Not racking to tertiary could be the problem. But i will say due to the amount of berries i have not had this beer get extremely clear. I have had friends that have but i have not. Tertiary and good cold crash make mine come very close though.

 

[RC0032]

How many lbs of beery s are people using?

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

I use 8 lbs, frozen.