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Fruit Beer Base

Method: All Grain
Style: Fruit Beer
Boil Time: 90 min
Batch Size: 2.5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Pre Boil Size: 3.77 gallons
Pre Boil Gravity: 1.036 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 70% (brew house)
Source: Adapted from BYO.com (Jamil Zainasheff)
Rating:

3.00 (1 Review)

Calories: 177 calories (Per 12oz)
Carbs: 16.6 g (Per 12oz)

Created: Wednesday June 10th 2015

Original Gravity:

1.054

Final Gravity:

1.011

ABV (standard):

5.7%

IBU (tinseth):

15.7

SRM (morey):

6.2

Mash pH

n/a

Cost $

n/a

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Fermentables

Amount	Fermentable	PPG	°L	Bill %
2.40 lb	American - White Wheat2.4 lb White Wheat	40	2.8	43.2%
2.40 lb	American - Pale Ale2.4 lb Pale Ale	37	3.5	43.2%
0.25 lb	American - Caramel / Crystal 20L0.25 lb Caramel / Crystal 20L	35	20	4.5%
0.50 lb	Rice Hulls0.5 lb Rice Hulls	0	0	9%
5.55 lbs / $ 0.00

Hops

Amount	Variety	Cost	Type	AA	Use	Time	IBU	Bill %
12 g	Domestic Hallertau12 g Domestic Hallertau Hops		Pellet	4.3	Boil	60 min	15.7	100%
12 g / $ 0.00

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Amount	Variety	Cost	IBU	Bill %
12 g	Domestic Hallertau (Pellet) 12 g Domestic Hallertau (Pellet) Hops		15.7	100%
12 g / $ 0.00

Mash Guidelines

Amount	Description	Type	Start Temp	Target Temp	Time
4.52 qt	Protein Rest	Infusion	--	125 °F	20 min
2.8 qt	Sacharification	Infusion	--	154 °F	60 min
2.6 qt	Mash Out	Infusion	--	168 °F	5 min
8.6 qt	Batch Sparge	Sparge	--	170 °F	10 min
Starting Mash Thickness: 0.9 qt/lb

Yeast

Fermentis - Safale - American Ale Yeast US-05

Amount:	1 Each	Cost:
Attenuation (avg):	81%	Flocculation:	Medium
Optimum Temp:	54 - 77 °F	Starter:	Yes
Fermentation Temp:	68 °F	Pitch Rate:	0.5 (M cells / ml / ° P) 63 B cells required

$ 0.00 Yeast Pitch Rate and Starter Calculator

Notes

Initial Strike Water @ 137
Infusions @ boiling
Ending Mash Thickness at 2.0 qt/lb

Yeast harvested from previous batch.

Tried to get by with 4 oz rice hulls. Sparge stuck at very end. Definitely increase to 8 oz.

First fruit tried with this was 2 lbs frozen mixed berry blend (blackberry/blueberry/raspberry) from Costco plus 10 oz rhubarb from my yard. All brought to about 165 for 10 min to pasteurize.

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Last Updated: 2015-12-17 02:38 UTC

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Cost for

Gallons

Cost by

Final Yield

	Cost $	Cost %
Fermentables	$
Steeping Grains (Extract Only)	$
Hops	$
Yeast	$
Other	$
Cost Per Barrel	$ 0.00
Cost Per Pint	$ 0.00
Total Cost	$ 0.00

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Nagging Wife Brewery • 12/17/2015 at 02:38am

3 of 5

I think the base recipe is still pretty sound but this particular batch using the berries and the rhubarb turned out a little thin. I think I put too much water in the pot with berries to pasteurize it and ended up diluting. I would suggest if you try to pasteurize, just put all the fruit in the pot, mash it up, then use a little water if you need to but just enough.

Also - berries and rhubarb is too tart in my opinion. Once the sugars in the berries were fermented out they were tart enough by themselves. Leave the rhubarb out.

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