blue meanie
Brewed this for a wedding, with 5lbs
of fresh blue berries and 1# of corn sugar in the secondary.
with additional yeast. So tasty and easy to drink for 12%
Brewer: | pokro | Email: | josephpokro@yahoo.com | |||||
Beer: | blue meanie | Style: | extreme fruit beer | |||||
Type: | All grain | Size: | 5.5 gallons | |||||
Color: |
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Bitterness: | 14 IBU | |||||
OG: | 1.093 | FG: | 1.012 | |||||
Alcohol: | 10.5% v/v (8.2% w/w) | |||||||
Grain: | 8.5 lb. Belgian pale .5 lb. Belgian CaraMunich 5 lb. Flaked wheat |
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Mash: | 80% efficiency | |||||||
single infusion >150 | ||||||||
Boil: | 60 minutes | SG 1.079 | 6.5 gallons | |||||
2 lb. blue berry pie filling .5 lb. Brown sugar |
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1 lb brown suger can be susituted in place of one blue berry can. For more flavor subsitute Bel candi syrup. |
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Hops: | 1 oz. Fuggles (4.75% AA, 60 min.) .5 oz. Fuggles (4.75% AA, 15 min.) |
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Yeast: | wyeast 1214 top crop or make additional starter for secondary |
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Log: | with a good starter primary should be done in 10 days. secondary should be done in bucket for easy racking off the fruit, after about 14 days frozen fruit can be used in secondary |
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Tasting: | Good hearty fruit beer. Reminds me of sparkleing wine. |
Recipe posted 09/04/06.