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DarkBerry Ale
Fruit Beer • Partial Mash • 5 gal
It's fruit. It's good for you.
January 14, 2007 pm 11:38pm
4.0/5.0 0 ratings
Ingredients (Partial Mash, 5 gal)
- 0.5 lbs
White Wheat Malt
White Wheat Malt
Weizens. Improves head retention in all beers. Contributes spicy flavor. Protein rest required.
- 0.5 lbs
Honey Malt
Honey Malt
Nutty honey flavor. For brown ales, Belgian wheats, bocks and many other styles.
- 0.125 lbs
Belgian Cara-Pils
Belgian Cara-Pils
Significantly increases foam/head retention and body of the beer.
- 0.5 lbs
American 2-row
American 2-row
Yields a slightly higher extract than Six Rox brewers Malt. Tends to give a smoother, less grainy flavored beer. Some brewers claim they can detect a significant difference in flavor. Lower protein and will yield a lower color than Six-Row Brewers Malt
- 4 lbs
Dry Light Extract
Dry Light Extract
White color, mild flavor. Will produce lagers and Pilseners and can also be used to produce darker beers when used in conjunction with colored malts. Made of pale malt.
- 0.75 oz
Cascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min
Cascade
Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.
- 0.5 oz
Tettnanger - 4.5 AA% pellets; boiled 10 min
Tettnanger
Mild, slightly spicy. 'Noble'.
- 5 lb
blackberries, dark cherries, in secondary - (omitted from calculations)
blackberries, dark cherries, in secondary
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White Labs WLP051 California Ale V
White Labs WLP051 California Ale V
From Northern California. This strain is more fruity than WLP001, and slightly more flocculant. Attenuation is lower, resulting in a fuller bodied beer than with WLP001.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 20 - Fruit Beer
Subcategory: A - Fruit Beer
| Range for this Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Gravity: | 1.042 | 1.026 - 1.120 |  |
| Terminal Gravity: | 1.008 | 0.995 - 1.035 | |
| Color: | 5.9 SRM | 1 - 50 | |
| Alcohol: | 4.3% ABV | 2.5% - 14.5% | |
| Bitterness: | 22.0 IBU | 0 - 100 | |
Discussion
active secondary
2007-01-28 3:17pm
The plan was to bottle after a week with the berries, but the secondary ferment was a little too vigorous. I had to punch the fruit down several times and clean the walls of berry bits once (the morning after racking). Activity was amazing, almost 20 bubbles per minute in the airlock for a few days. After a week things have finally settled down, but I'll leave it another week before bottling. Hopefully the rest of the fruit will drop in that time.
first impressions
2007-02-17 12:42am
I bottled this 2 weeks ago and tonight drank the first bottle (the last one to be filled--not quite full). The color is less intense than I had hoped, more reddish than purple. But it's a nice color anyway. The fruit aroma is wonderful and fresh. The flavor is definitely beer, yet also definitely fruit. The flavor integration isn't quite done yet, and it will be better fully carbonated, but I'm quite pleased with the way it has turned out so far. It's very dry, but the fruity acidity is low enough that it's not out of balance.
refreshing
2007-03-16 10:00pm
This beer turned out well. Refreshing and light. The fruit flavors are well-presented but not totally dominant. Could still use a little more "beer-ness". I'll work on the underlying beer some more.
submitted to competition
2007-05-27 6:27pm
I also sent this beer to the County Fair. Can't wait to see the comments.
score
2007-06-09 9:04pm
This one rated a 27.5.
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