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B-Day Berry Wheat

B-Day Berry Wheat

Fruit Beer • Extract • 5 gal

Bobcat Punk

Brewing for a friend's birthday. Hoping for a nice but not over-powering raspberry taste.

May 5, 2007 pm 08:53pm

0.0/5.0 0 ratings

Ingredients (Extract5 gal)

  • 1 lbs Crystal Malt 10°L

    Crystal Malt 10°L

    Sweet, mild caramel flavor and a golden color. Use in light lagers and light ales. Characteristics & Applications: • In contract to Brewers Malt, glassiness is a distinguishing characteristic of Caramel Malt. The glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components giving true Caramel Malt the ability to contribute body (mouthfeel), foam foam retention, and extended beer stability, while contributing color and unique caramel flavor. • Caramel 10L is a roasted caramel malt that imparts golden color. • Use 3-7% for Pilsener-style beers for balance. • Use 5-15% to provide color, sweetness and color to light amber beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • 1 lbs White Wheat Malt

    White Wheat Malt

    Weizens. Improves head retention in all beers. Contributes spicy flavor. Protein rest required.

  • 6 lbs Liquid Wheat Extract

    Liquid Wheat Extract

    Made with a preponderance of wheat malt (55%) for the production of wheat or Weiss beers. Contains no colored malts or hops.

  • 1 lbs Honey

    Honey

    Imparts sweet and dry taste. For honey and brown ales. Also: specialty ales.

  • 1 oz Cascade - 6.9 AA% whole; boiled 5 min

    Cascade

    Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.

  • 1 oz Willamette - 5.5 AA% whole; boiled 60 min

    Willamette

    This hop is used for finishing and dry hopping American and British style ales. Aroma is mild and pleasant ans slightly spicy

  • 5 lb red raspberries - (omitted from calculations)

    red raspberries

  • Wyeast 1010 American Wheat™

    Wyeast 1010 American Wheat™

    A dry fermenting, true top cropping yeast which produces a dry, slightly tart, crisp beer, in American hefeweisen style.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 20 - Fruit Beer

Subcategory: A - Fruit Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.061 1.026 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.012 0.995 - 1.035
Color: 11.4 SRM 1 - 50
Alcohol: 6.4% ABV 2.5% - 14.5%
Bitterness: 20.0 IBU 0 - 100

Discussion

Bobcat Punk

A bit too much fruit

2007-09-27 11:20am

This beer came out pretty nice. I ended up using blackberries instead of raspberries (there were more ripe in my yard blackberries). The recipe could stand to use less fruit, though. Hops come through, but the fruit over powers them.

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