Blackcurrant beer

[rpruen]

I did this:

I'm hoping the blackcurrants will make up for the lack of hops, and the caramel and biscuit notes from the malts will compliment the slightly sour lactic acid addition. Yes cascade as a bittering hop, it says dual purpose, and I have some pellets I wanted to get rid of.

Blacurrent sour - unknown style (N/A)
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Batch Size 5.500 L
Boil Size 9.099 L
Boil Time 1.000 hr
Efficiency 70%
OG 1.064 sg
FG 1.016 sg
ABV 6.6%
Bitterness 21.4 IBU (Tinseth)
Color 11.9 srm (Morey)

Fermentables
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Name Type Amount Mashed Late Yield Color
Pale Malt (2 Row) UK Grain 1.000 kg Yes No 78% 3.0 srm
Melanoiden Malt Grain 500.000 g Yes No 80% 20.0 srm
Rye Crystal Malt Grain 500.000 g Yes No 63% 55.0 srm
Total grain: 2.000 kg

Hops
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Name Alpha Amount Use Time Form IBU
Cascade 6.0% 10.000 g Boil 1.000 hr Pellet 21.4

Miscs
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Name Type Use Amount Time
Blacurrents Dry Other Primary 50.000 g 4.000 day+
Irish Moss Fining Boil 1.500 g 20.000 min
Kosher Salt Water Agent Mash 0.000 g 0.000 s
Yeast Nutrient Other Primary 1.000 g 0.000 s
Lactic Acid Water Agent Mash 20.000 mL 0.000 s

Yeasts
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Name Type Form Amount Stage
Safale S-05 Ale Dry 4.00 g Primary

[rpruen]

So far so good, the beer hasn't fermented out yet.

Tasting the sample from a gravity reading, its definitely promising, there's a balance of sweetness and tart blaccurent. Enough hop to provide a bitter finish.

On the whole I am pleased with it so far.

Another couple of days and I'll transfer it to secondary