Blueberry Ale Recipe
I reread Mike’s post on brewing fruit beers and I dreamt up this all grain blueberry ale recipe that balances sweet (from the malt), spicy (from the hops), and tart (from the berries) flavors into one beer. You’ll need a secondary fermenter for this recipe.
Ingredients:
8 lbs. American 2-row
0.25 lbs. Honey Malt
0.75 lbs. German Vienna Malt
0.50 oz. Perle (Pellets, 8.25 %AA) boiled 60 min.
0.50 oz. Saaz (Pellets, 5.00 %AA) boiled 15 min.
2.5 lbs Oregon Fruit Puree - Blueberry
Yeast: White Labs WLP051 California Ale V
Instructions:
Mash grain at 150 degrees for 1 hour. Boil for 60 minutes and ferment at 68 degrees for 2 weeks. Add fruit puree to secondary fermenter and rack beer on top of it. Let beer condition for 1 week. Bottle or rack to a keg for another 2 weeks of conditioning.
Original Gravity: 1.047
Final Gravity: 1.010
Color: 4.69 °SRM
Bitterness: 21.5 IBU
Alcohol (%volume): 4.8 %
on June 16th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Any chance we could get a photo of the beer, I’m curious as to the color of the finished product?
on June 17th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Absolutely. I think it’s gonna be reddish. Maybe even violet-ish.
on June 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
FWIW, I just finished off a keg of Blueberry Wheat that I brewed and just to let you know, the color was a violet red color. I used 2 1lb. cans of Oregon Fruit. It was whole so I pureed it first and racked on to it after primary was done, then let it sit for a week. I didn’t get any blueberry “flavor”, just a tartness that went really well with the wheat beer base.
on June 18th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Chris,
Any info is definitely worth a lot. Thanks for the insight into your experience. I think the tartness is what I am looking for with the addition of the blueberries.