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Wow. Did you take a gravity reading before racking to secondary?
Wow. Did you take a gravity reading before racking to secondary?
Knowing that I love sour beers, at what stage, or what would be needed to turn this into a sour strawberry batch? I have 10 gallons (2x5) almost fermented out (1week so far) and just about ready to add the berries for the next steps. Just wondering if I could add Brettanomyces yeast next with the berries and make a sour strawberry brew?
I took this to a family yard party and they floated the keg in just a few hours. It was a big hit!
So I tried searching but I am still not sure. Do you add strawberries during all three stages or just the secondary?
This looks good and it might be the "gateway" to get my wife into my new hobby.
18lbs and for 5 weeks? Quite a bit! Sounds good though.
You mentioned earlier in this thread that you are no longer doing 2x 10 min. dunk sparges and have condensed it to a single sparge. Could you clarify a little? Are you doing 1x 5 gal dunk sparge for the same duration and temp? or have you gone to a pour over sparge at the same temp? I am brewing this tomorrow and it will be my first AG brew, just wanting to get it as right as I can.
I cracked the first bottle of this last night, after only 10 days in the bottle, couldn't wait. It is DELICIOUS!! Family claiming it is my best brew so far.
Spritzy strawberry aroma, clean blonde ale taste, strawberry aftertaste on the tongue.
I think I may have over carbonated this a little. But, it does not take away from the great taste of this brew at all. I doubt much of this will last to even see if it ages into something better. I used fresh strawberries and the bitter grapefruit flavor that I tasted when bottling was gone. I will definitely be brewing this again and probably trying different fruit combinations as the seasonal fruit prices change.
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