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Coconut Plum

Coconut Plum

Fruit Beer • Extract • 5.25 gal

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A summer beer, ready in time for fall :( Brewed 8/16/08

August 17, 2008 pm 01:59pm

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Ingredients (Extract5.25 gal)

  • 0.75 lbs Honey Malt

    Honey Malt

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

  • 0.5 lbs Belgian Cara-Pils

    Belgian Cara-Pils

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

  • 0.75 lbs American Caramel 20°L

    American Caramel 20°L

    Provides color, body, and contributes to foam retention and beer stability.

  • 5 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.

  • 5 lbs Corn Sugar

    Corn Sugar

    Use in priming beer or in extract recipes where flaked maize would be used in a mash.

  • 0.5 oz Perle - 8.2 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Perle

    Used mainly for its minty bittering and good green hop aromas in all non-pilsener lagersand wheats. Aroma is pleasant and slightly spicy

  • 0.75 oz Perle - 8.2 AA% pellets; boiled 25 min

    Perle

    Used mainly for its minty bittering and good green hop aromas in all non-pilsener lagersand wheats. Aroma is pleasant and slightly spicy

  • 0.75 oz Perle - 8.2 AA% pellets; boiled 5 min

    Perle

    Used mainly for its minty bittering and good green hop aromas in all non-pilsener lagersand wheats. Aroma is pleasant and slightly spicy

  • 2 oz coconut flavoring, added before bottling - (omitted from calculations)

    coconut flavoring, added before bottling

  • 48 oz plum juice, 10 min. before end of boil - (omitted from calculations)

    plum juice, 10 min. before end of boil

  • Wyeast 1187 Ringwood Ale™

    Wyeast 1187 Ringwood Ale™

    Notorious Yeast of European origin with unique fermentation and flavor charateristics. Distinct fruit ester and high flocculation provide a malty complex profile, which clears well. Thorough diacetyl rest is recommended after fermentation is complete.

Notes

Hops were actually Palisades pellets, not available in the menu.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 20 - Fruit Beer

Subcategory: A - Fruit Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.085 1.026 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.024 0.995 - 1.035
Color: 10.8 SRM 1 - 50
Alcohol: 8.1% ABV 2.5% - 14.5%
Bitterness: 24.3 IBU 0 - 100

Discussion

RITiger41

Curious?

2008-08-18 5:44pm

I'm curious how this will turn out. I like the plum flavored Starburst I wondering if it will have a resemblance. Is this an experimentation or did you go based on some kind of recipe? I think 5 lbs of corn sugar might impart a strong corn flavor. Please keep us posted throughout the fermentation and final result. Thanks.

Ryan C

Just bottled a few days ago

2008-09-04 9:23pm

I was worried about this one... Very long lag time, fermented hard for a couple days, then was transferred to the secondary with no activity for a week. Transferred to the bottling bucket, and... WOW tastes delicious, even before the coconut flavoring was added! I'll be cracking open a bottle in a couple of weeks to see how its coming along.

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