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IMB Honey Raspberry Wheat

IMB Honey Raspberry Wheat

Fruit Beer • Partial Mash • 6.5 gal

Iron Mikes Brewery

March 2, 2002 am 09:46am

4.0/5.0 1 rating

Ingredients (Partial Mash6.5 gal)

  • 3.0 lbs Honey Malt

    Honey Malt

    Nutty honey flavor. For brown ales, Belgian wheats, bocks and many other styles.

  • 1.0 lbs Belgian Cara-Pils

    Belgian Cara-Pils

    Significantly increases foam/head retention and body of the beer.

  • 5 lbs Wheat Liquid; Northwestern

    Wheat Liquid; Northwestern

    Can be used in making Wheat Beer, Bavarian Weizen, Berliner Weiss, and Dunkel Weizen.

  • 3/4 oz Hallertauer Hersbrucker - 3.2 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Hallertauer Hersbrucker

    Mild to strong. 'Noble'.

  • 3/4 oz Tettnanger - 5.6 AA% pellets; boiled 30 min

    Tettnanger

    Mild, slightly spicy. 'Noble'.

  • 1.0 tsp Irish Moss - (omitted from calculations)

    Irish Moss

  • 12 oz Frozen Raspberries - (omitted from calculations)

    Frozen Raspberries

  • White Labs WLP070 Bourbon Yeast

    White Labs WLP070 Bourbon Yeast

    From a tradtional distillery in the heart of Bourbon country, this strain produces a carmel, malty character with balanced ester profile. Suitable for Bourbon or other American Whiskey with barley, rye, or corn as the base grain. Used in high-gravity beers.

Notes

Ferment 5 days at 75 degrees. Rack directly to keg. Add 12 oz frozen Red Raspberries in hop bag and suspend. Add 1/2 cup corn sugar. Ferment 2 weeks room temperature. Release pressure daily for first 3 days. Cold condition 30 days to clarify beer. First glass will be heavy with fruit sediment, but clear of sediment thereafter---very lager-like character.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 20 - Fruit Beer

Subcategory: A - Fruit Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.044 1.026 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.010 0.995 - 1.035
Color: 13.8 SRM 1 - 50
Alcohol: 4.4% ABV 2.5% - 14.5%
Bitterness: 18.7 IBU 0 - 100

Discussion

IronMike

Great beer that matures well with age.

2007-03-01 7:42pm

I think the key to this recipe is putting the frozen raspberries in a hop sock with sanitized marbles and adding it to the finished beer in the keg and alowing it to carbonate naturally. I found that this beer hits it's peak after 6 months and is still great after a year.

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