American Passionfruit Wheat Ale

ph ended up at only 3.6, which has a lot to do with the Passionfruit additions. It tastes a lot like a sour too, even though it's not really meant to be. Amazing passionfruit smell (I used Ponthier passionfruit puree), good head retention, a little watery on the taste to be honest but certainly doesn't taste like a 6.2% beer.

Fermentation kicked off after about 24 hours. Finished in about 3 days (pressure fermented at 5psi until fermenting was done, then up to 22psi at 19 degrees to carbonate).

Before adding the passionfruit puree, I pulled off half the beer from the primary into a secondary. I wanted to see if this would make a difference, because it means that the primary would be sitting on the yeast cake and a load of hops for another week.

In the end I couldn't tell the difference between the two, so next time everything goes into the primary before I rack it off to the serving keg. Secondaries seem to be a waste of time for me so far (I ferment in a corny with a filter so that helps).

Finished at 1.011. After adding passionfruit puree, gravity went up 0.05 points and fermentation kicked off again in both vessels. In the end, I think this turned out at about 6.2%.