Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Raspberry Wetta Berry

Last Friday while waiting to begin SheppyQuest Lite with my son, I brewed up a quick double batch of that last of my Mr. Beer HME / UME combos (see Wetta Berry Mr. Beer Batch).

This afternoon, I stopped by my LHBS and picked up some raspberry puree. Then, tonight while the kids were reading to me, I transferred the beer from the two Mr. Beer fermentors onto the puree.

I think perhaps the three pound can of raspberry puree is a bit much for this amount of beer. The color came out ruby red. It reminded me a bunch of the color of New Belgium's Frambozen. Perhaps you remember (although you probably don't watch my blog closely enough to have even read it), In Frambozen I wrote:
"It does have an amazing ruby red color that I would love to recreate in one of my beers."
It looks like now I have recreated the color. I suppose this means the raspberry flavor will be too much for me. I might end up giving away most of this beer.


I'll be letting this sit on the raspberries for another couple of weeks. I will most likely let you know how the Beer Model and I like it.

2 comments:

  1. There seems to be a lot more fermentation activity with this raspberry puree than I remember getting with the apricot puree I used for Apricot Lovin'. Had to add a blow-off tube last night.

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  2. Took out blow-off tube and put on the air lock. There was an aweful lot of blowoff.

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