blue berry ale
I was hoping to get a more blueberry flavor. Instead I got a nice wine like warm when drunk, and a low hop taste and a after effect of berry flavor. It is good but needs to add more blueberries.
Brewer: | ken(alabama) | Email: | - | |||||
Beer: | blue berry ale | Style: | Belgian Lambic | |||||
Type: | All grain | Size: | 6 gallons | |||||
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Bitterness: | 17 IBU | |||||
OG: | 1.057 | FG: | 1.012 | |||||
Alcohol: | 5.8% v/v (4.6% w/w) | |||||||
Water: | I added 1 tsp of citric acid and 1 tsp gypsum to both steep water and sparge water. | |||||||
Grain: | 5.75 lb. pale malt 2 row 3 lb. pale malt 2 row bel 1.5 lb. honey malt .63 lb. biscuit malt |
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Mash: | 80% efficiency | |||||||
mash in 13.62 qt of water @ 170.5 ° water for a 158 step temp. for 45 minutes mash out add 5.94 qt of 196.6 ° water for 10 minutes. took starch test and passed. |
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Boil: | 60 minutes | SG 1.069 | 5 gallons | |||||
1 lb. Honey | ||||||||
after hot break added 1 lb of honey and stirred. added 1 tsp of irish moss at 15 minutes at flame out added 3 qt of freshed blueberries (crushed and marinated in 1 oz of honey). after cold break strained blueberries from fermentor. |
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Hops: | .5 oz. sterling (7.5% AA, 60 min.) .5 oz. strisslpalt (1.8% AA, 60 min.) .5 oz. cascade (6.2% AA, 30 min.) |
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Yeast: | made a starter w/ 100 ml of cooled wort and 1 pkg of nottingham yeast. pitched in at 88 ° wort temp. Afetr 5 hours had fermentation (caustion I had a blow over in my fermentor due to lack of space). |
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Log: | I left it on the fermentor for 2 weeks then secondary rack for another 2 weeks. bottled | |||||||
Carbonation: | used 3/4 cup of dextrose | |||||||
Tasting: | has warm wine taste at first taste the suttle after taste of berry flavor. I think more blueberry is needed. |
Recipe posted 10/17/05.