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New Harvest Blueberry Ale

New Harvest Blueberry Ale

Fruit Beer • All Grain • 5 gal

denovo

A light BIAB honey blueberry ale w/beano addition

September 30, 2009 pm 03:13pm

3.0/5.0 1 rating

Ingredients (All Grain, 5 gal)

  • 5.5 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

  • 2 lbs Golden Promise Pale

    Golden Promise Pale

    An especially sweet and clean variety of barley which results in full and malty sweet beer. It has superb hush integrity and delivers fast and consistent mash tun drainage. This malt variety is perfect for brewing up a clear, bright pint.

  • .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.

  • .5 lbs Cara-Pils® Malt; Briess

    Cara-Pils® Malt; Briess

    Characteristics & Applications: • The endosperm is completely glassy and will appear to be darker than standard Brewers Malt. • Carapils® is a very unique dextrine-style malt that adds body, foam retention, and beer stability without influencing color or flavor. • Use to upgrade all types of beer, including light colored beers. • The non-fermentables in Carapils® are very advantageous in balancing body and flavor of dark colored beers. • May be used with or without other specialty malts. • Low usage of 1-5% will help achieve desired results. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • 2 lbs Honey

    Honey

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

  • .5 lbs Oats Flaked

    Oats Flaked

    Belgian White Ale(wit), other specialty beers.

  • 1 oz Cascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Cascade

    Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.

  • 0.75 oz Cascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min

    Cascade

    Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.

  • 0.75 oz Cascade - 5.5 AA% pellets; boiled 1 min

    Cascade

    Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.

  • 3 lb Blueberries - (omitted from calculations)

    Blueberries

  • .25 tsp liquid beano - (omitted from calculations)

    liquid beano

  • Fermentis US-05 Safale US-05

    Fermentis US-05 Safale US-05

    The most famous ale yeast strain found across America, now available as a ready-to-pitch dry yeast. Produces well balanced beers with low diacetyl and a very clean, crisp end palate. Sedimentation: low to medium. 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(80F ±6F). 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(68F). 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

Blueberries were lightly crushed and heated to 160 F to pasteurize, added to the primary after initial fermintation slowed. Hops & blueberries both home-grown, which means IBU figure is a wild guess; used the low end of the alpha range for Cascades. Cara-pils was German this time, not Belgian. Using BIAB technique, OG hit 1.059 precisely, using 90 min. immersion 'sparge' at 158 F. w/ stirring every 10-20 min, followed by a 75 min boil. Added Servomyces cap. w/ Irish Moss addition, to try to hit the FG. mark. Brewed 8/24/09 Added berries in grain bag 8/25 8/26/09 Removed berries, added 15 drops alpha-galactosidase enzyme & moved to secondary. Also added a few wine-soaked toasted oak chips from WineCountryWoodsInc.com @ 1.024- it's quite murky (w/ pectin from berries, I think 8/28 1.013 9/1 1.008 9/3 1.006 9/19 1.001 (!) OK, thats DRY. 9/28 Added 1 envelope gelatin fining to clarify and chill to 60 F. before bottling,

Style (BJCP)

Category: 20 - Fruit Beer

Subcategory: A - Fruit Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.059 1.026 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.000 0.995 - 1.035
Color: 9.0 SRM 1 - 50
Alcohol: 7.8% ABV 2.5% - 14.5%
Bitterness: 32.7 IBU 0 - 100

Discussion

denovo

Surprisingly good for FG of 1.001

2009-10-31 3:23pm

This brew has received a thumbs-up from all who have tried it; it's not as thin as the FG might suggest, and the flavor is winey and rich. It's dry, but not objectionably so. If I were to repeat the experiment, I'd add the beano to the mash, so the enzyme would be deactivated by the boil; using it post-boil makes for a VERY long wait while the fermintation gradually creeps toward the ultimate FG. It's very easy to bottle too early unless you're very patient.

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