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Harvest Blueberry Ale
Fruit Beer • Extract • 5 gal
A light honey blueberry ale
October 29, 2008 pm 08:00pm
4.0/5.0 1 rating
Ingredients (Extract, 5 gal)
- .5 lbs
Crystal Malt 40°L
Crystal Malt 40°L
Sweet, mild caramel flavor and a golden color. Use in light lagers and light ales.
- .5 lbs
Crystal Malt 20°L
Crystal Malt 20°L
Sweet, mild caramel flavor and a golden color. Use in light lagers and light ales.
- 1 lbs
Belgian Cara-Pils
Belgian Cara-Pils
Significantly increases foam/head retention and body of the beer.
- 4.4 lbs
Dry Light; Muntons
Dry Light; Muntons
Used as the base for a wide variety of styles of beers, including lager, pale ales, bitters, and export bitters. Contains no colored malts.
- 2 lbs
Honey
Honey
Imparts sweet and dry taste. For honey and brown ales. Also: specialty ales.
- .25 lbs
Oats Flaked
Oats Flaked
Belgian White Ale(wit), other specialty beers.
- .5 lbs
Malto Dextrin
Malto Dextrin
Adds body and mouthfeel. For all extract beers. Does not ferment.
- .75 oz
Cascade - 6.3 AA% pellets; boiled 45 min
Cascade
Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.
- .75 oz
Cascade - 6.3 AA% pellets; boiled 5 min
Cascade
Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.
- 3 lb
Blueberries - (omitted from calculations)
Blueberries
-
Fermentis S-04 Safale S-04
Fermentis S-04 Safale S-04
A well-known, commercial English ale yeast, selected for its fast fermentation character and its ability to form a very compact sediment at the end of the fermentation, helping to improve beer clarity. This yeast is recommended for the production of a large range of ale beers and is specially well adapted to cask-conditioned ales and fermentation in cylindro-conical tanks. Sedimentation: high. Final gravity: medium. Pitching instructions: Re-hydrate the dry yeast into yeast cream in a stirred vessel prior to pitching. Sprinkle the dry yeast in 10 times its own weight of sterile water or wort at 27C ± 3C. Once the expected weight of dry yeast is reconstituted into cream by this method (this takes about 15 to 30 minutes), maintain a gentle stirring for another 30 minutes. Then pitch the resultant cream into the fermentation vessel. Alternatively, pitch dry yeast directly in the fermentation vessel providing the temperature of the wort is above 20C. Progressively sprinkle the dry yeast into the wort ensuring the yeast covers all the surface of wort available in order to avoid clumps. Leave for 30 minutes and then mix the wort e.g. using aeration.
Notes
Actually used Safale S-05; poured hot wort through a double-handfull of home-grown whole cascades into primary. Added blueberries, lightly blended with a little ale, to the secondary. This results in a light red/gold color from the blueberry skins. Bottled and finished, it's very refreshing, dry and slightly tart.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 20 - Fruit Beer
Subcategory: A - Fruit Beer
| Range for this Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Gravity: | 1.066 | 1.026 - 1.120 |  |
| Terminal Gravity: | 1.013 | 0.995 - 1.035 | |
| Color: | 11.5 SRM | 1 - 50 | |
| Alcohol: | 7.0% ABV | 2.5% - 14.5% | |
| Bitterness: | 21.1 IBU | 0 - 100 | |
Discussion
Remaking this in All-grain format (BIAB)
2009-08-22 3:53pm
This was the favorite of a friend, so it's time to make it again. I've replaced the extract with 5.5 lb 2-row & 2 lb Golden Promise, and added .5 lb dextrine malt instead of the malto-dextrine. This time the CaraPils is German rather than Belgian. Also switched to Safale 04 instead of 05. I'll pasteurize whole blueberries in some wort at 160 for 10 min, rather than blending, to cut down on the tannins, AND finally, I'll be using all home-grown Cascades this time!
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