Wild Blackberry ale

[Michal]

I had a go at making one earlier this year and it made a really good, well ballanced fruit beer.

That's about the only pictre I could find


So this time.... I have changed it completely

3500g Vienna Malt
1000g Lager Malt
400g Cara Amber
400g Cara Red
300g Cara Pils
200g Flaked Barley

4.5 kg Frozen Blackberries, boiled separately for 2 min (2gallons of water added)

Hops:
Bramling Cross 7.27% 53g 60min
Bramling Cross 7.27% 25g 15min
Bramling Cross 7.27% 25g 10min
Bramling Cross 7.27% 25g 5min
Bramling Cross 7.27% 25g 2min

Batch size 6 gallons
OG:1050

Frozen blackberries


Liquidising


I crush and add 3 campden tablets, last time I didn't and had a thin white film at the top of my beer in bottles which I suspect might have been wild yeast?
It didn't affect the taste in any way, but hopefully will be avioded this time


give it a good stir


It looks more like smoothie at this stage, but so it did last time


After 24h nice krausen


Now I must be patient

[Eric]

I hope to aspire to doing a brew like that. For me it isn't patience, that I have, courage I lack.

[Michal]

I don't think there's much that can go wrong here (fingers crossed)

Worst case scenario

1. It wouldn't clear, which I am sure given time it will
2. It will come out pink.... I looked at the wort in a different light and it had this pinkish colour

Pink beer that I don't want

[Jon474]

Michal
How has this gone? Looks really interesting...so much so that I am off to pick blackberries tomorrow!
Jon

[Michal]

Hi Jon,

So far so good. It's down to 1015 and maybe it is too early but I will transfer it to secondary tomorrow because I need the bucket for another brew.

That's what it is at the moment


I am tempted to say that I should have added more cara or something to make it sweeter. It is dry and blackberries are very prominent.
But then surely it will change a lot in the next few weeks.

Picking blackberries in October? Isn't it too late?

[Andy]

4.5 kg of blackberries is A LOT of blackberries

[Michal]

It is not a lot,that's 652 blackberries exactly...

No I didn't actually count them

I think I have read somewhere, that's roughly the amount of cherries that breweries in belgium add to their krieks.
But then I suppose cherries is a completely different story...

[Jon474]

Yes, it's far too late. I was being a bit optimistic, I think.

Oh well, there's always Tesco.

Still like the idea though.

Jon