Weekend Brew

[PieOPah]

I have told SWMBO that I will be brewing this weekend. All I need to do is work out what.

I haven't any liquid yeast so I'll be using 'Muntons Premium Gold' which I like.

I can't remember what hops I have which is a damn shame.

I do know that I have plenty of Marris Otter though

I was thinking of something along the lines of

4.5 kg Maris Otter
250.0 g British Crystal
800 g Cherries (frozen) - added dry to secondary fermenter
20 g Willamette (5.0%) - added during boil, boiled 60 min
10 g Willamette (5.0%) - added during boil, boiled 30 min
10 g Willamette (5.0%) - added during boil, boiled 10 min

Hopefully the cherries will give a nice red colour with only a hint of flavour (don't want this to be over powering just very subtle). I am after a nice summer drink that'll go down well at a BBQ.....

[steve_flack]

You need a lot of cherries to get the full Kriek flavour - IIRC about a pound a gallon - so with 800g in a batch it should be fairly lightly cherryfied

[PieOPah]

with 800g in a batch it should be fairly lightly cherryfied

Which is exactly what I am after

[maxashton]

Cherries again!
You love your cherryale don't you?

[PieOPah]

Cherries again!
You love your cherryale don't you?

First time using them

[maxashton]

What's your target OG, Pie?

[PieOPah]

I was looking at that recipe and thinking, where's the munich, carapils, vienna, rauchmalt or frosties and where's the hop list as long as your arm, then I saw the cherries and was satisfied know one had stolen your identity and was posting on the forum fraudulently....that's frighteningly like a 'normal' gravity beer though PoPs, your liver will thank you

Hope all goes well...let us know how the element holds up

This is going to be my summer beer for when we have people visiting and eating our BBQ's. I thought it should be a nice easy drink that you can have a few of without being on your back. Plus I wanted to try brewing a beer that my element could cope with

What's your target OG, Pie?

I'm shooting for 1.046 this will give me an ABV of around 4.5% This will obviously increase with the addition of the cherries but I should be able to work that out with my refractometer.