Razzerman wrote:P.S. I've done a 'Stoegaarden' logo, if you're interested. I'll post it up tomorrow sometime.
Sure. Is yours also brewed in a garden in 'stow then?
stee41 wrote:after a recipe like this for the Mrs, but would it work with strawberries?
It could do, but fruit beers are a little of a headache. You need a hell of a lot of fruit to get any noticable fruit flavour - perhaps 2-4 kilos in a 5 gallon brew. You'd brew the beer as normal, under-gravity (unless you want a killer - the fruit will be boosting the gravity a lot) and under batch size (you'll be adding lots of volume with fruit and boil water. After the fermentation has died down, add the fruit to a large pan, add a litre or so of water and simmer it down to mush. Cool this and add it to the fermenter. Be prepared for the fermentation to go crazy and there to be lots of gunk on the bottom of the FV.
The easier way would be to buy strawberry syrup (perhaps that French stuff i can never remember the name of) and use that instead, although that does kind of go against the concept of all-grain (i.e. this procedure is more like extract brewing).
not right, that's a starter. Has a noticeable after taste. Harsh / astringent - not very pleasant. Very similar taste with the first attempt that went wrong. At least I've got some consistency 
