Raspberry beer

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Raspberry beer

Post by brewboy4 » Wed Jan 17, 2018 7:03 pm

Has anyone got a tryied and tested raspberry recipe , the variety on line is huge. I’m open to all suggestions


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Re: Raspberry beer

Post by TheSumOfAllBeers » Wed Jan 17, 2018 7:07 pm

Whatever your base beer is like wheat, kettle sour, basic blonde, add a couple of sachets of funkin cocktails fruit puree in when it reaches FG. You will need to use a lot : for a 20 L batch, I would use a minimum of 2Kg.

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Re: Raspberry beer

Post by WalesAles » Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:57 pm

bb4,
Try this post,......viewtopic.php?f=4&t=71317&hilit=strawberry+beer
Yes, it is Strawberry and a kit Brew, read the thread and feel the joy coming from others tasting it! :D
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Re: Raspberry beer

Post by bryanferry » Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:34 am

Last batch I made in August came out great. It was 3.7kg wheat, 1.56Kg pilsner and 170g carapils. 75min mash at 66c. Only 24g of tettnang at 60min.

5 days into the fermentation I dropped in 1kg of frozen raspberries. By the end of the fermentation all the colour had drained from the berries.

Came out at 4.3%. Oddly given the wheat content it poured near clear and crisp. The raspberry flavour was sharp in the first month and mellowed quickly thereafter so you need to get drinking whilst young.
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Re: Raspberry beer

Post by Jambo » Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:45 am

The Raspberry Wit in Greg Hughes' book is good, if you're into that sort of thing.

Raspberry seeds can fairly block an airlock so what out for that, especially when combined with a wit type yeast (WLP400 I think I used).

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Re: Raspberry beer

Post by brewboy4 » Thu Jan 18, 2018 7:51 pm

Thanks the raspberry wheat seems to be common , might try that


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Re: Raspberry beer

Post by gaunt_paul » Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:31 pm

I'm currently drinking a raspberry chocolate stout. The balance isn't quite right, the raspberry is too prominent and teh chocolate is too subdued. Heres the recipe if you want a starting point for something similar...

Batch Size (fermenter): 19.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.053 SG
Estimated Color: 69.4 EBC
Estimated IBU: 33.6 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
3.939 kg Maris Otter (Crisp) (7.9 EBC) Grain 1 85.8 %
0.245 kg Brown Malt (Simpsons) (150.0 EBC) Grain 2 5.3 %
0.245 kg Chocolate Malt (Bairds) (1000.0 EBC) Grain 3 5.3 %
0.164 kg Roasted Barley (Crisp) (1300.0 EBC) Grain 4 3.6 %
24 g Bramling Cross [7.20 %] - Boil 90.0 min Hop 5 22.7 IBUs
16 g Bramling Cross [7.20 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 6 10.9 IBUs

WLP002 Fullers strain yeast

In secondary...
2.26kg raspberries (picked from the garden, then frozen)
22g Cacao nibs (roasted in the oven at 180c for 15mins)

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Re: Raspberry beer

Post by orlando » Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:56 am

My tip is to go big time, if you are using just raspberries. I used 5k in 25 litres. The other tip is to put them in when the beer has completely finished. It will take off again and can be quite dry as a result so mash high.
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