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Author:

Shatinator

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 70

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 3/18/2012 9:16 PM

Notes:

Author:

BigD'sBrewcave

Boil Size: 6.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.056

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 66 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/15/2018 4:20 AM

Notes: 1 cup of Roasted and chopped Macadamia Nuts I brought back raw from Hawaii and roasted myself, steeped in Vodka, adding home made extract at kegging.
10oz of dutch baking cocao powder from Winco bulk at 15min

Author:

Mark Corbett

Boil Size: 27.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.05

Efficiency: 76

Mash Thickness: 2.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/11/2014 12:27 AM

Notes: Mash at 156.

Author:

gagelewi

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 69 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/25/2015 7:53 PM

Notes: Add Dextrose at end of boil.

Add 2 oz of citra hops to dry hop after two weeks in fermentor, for 7 days.

Starting Gravity 1.063

On vacation for a week and missed dry hopping by a week.
So really, it got three weeks in fermentor then dry hopped for an additional week.

Final Gravity 1.014

Made 40 beers

Author:

mechamaniaboy

Boil Size: 28.7 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.043

Efficiency: 63

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/1/2018 9:33 AM

Notes: This is a Slyko combination of the Radical Brewing book by Randy Mosher, Eschantz' Requiem Raspberry - BierMuncher's Centennial Blond, and EdWort's Bee Cave Brewery Haus Pale Ale all of which I read on the INTERNET @ HomeBrewTalk.com . These are all great recipes & well received for their ease of use. I've adjusted the yeast, starter & the fermentation time to MY liking. I can't even take credit for the FANTASTIC change in yeast. I went into my favorite LHBS and they didn't have the Nottingham. We simply subsituted Wyeast in it's place. The suggested aging came about since following BM's recipe it originally tasted like soap, so being the lazy SOB I am, I just left it. 3 weeks later, it proved to be an amazing goof! (http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f75/requiem-raspberry-56285/)

I’ve been tweaking the recipe for a few months now and this is it. BierMuncher's original recipe for Centennial Blond calls for a much shorter fermentation cycle, this recipe requires a much longer time. When I drank this early, it tasted terrible. Let it age. This is the recipe that will be a permanent fixture at my house. I’ve brewed it numerous times, served the first brew to friends, families, and “curious on-lookers” It's light, crisp, dry, with a background of raspberry. Very tasty! I love a light fruit beer.

Definitely don't use raspberry juice, concentrate, or extract. Go to your grocery store in the frozen fruit area and pick up 40 oz of raspberries and just thaw and throw in the fermenter. Do not buy the kind with any added sugar. Read the ingredients label to see if there is any crap in there that you dont want. It's a little expensive but it's great. I never sanitze them. I just thaw and toss them in. THey'll float for a while and might drop out of suspension. They'll mostly turn white after the yeasties have had their way with them.You could go to a farmers market and grab fresh ones. Whatever you do I would only add whole fruit to this beer. The juice or extract thing is no good for this one. I have used both red raspberries and black raspberries. Both work great. It's hard to tell the difference to tell you the truth.

Once I matched up Centennial as the bittering hop and Cascade as a flavor/aroma hop…that’s when the magic happened. Don't use any flavor extract, that gives too much an overpowering & forced taste.

Light and crisp. The IBU’s are on the low side, but there is a nice sweet/spicy balance to the beer. The great fresh taste of a craft ale with an extremely clean finish. Very drinkable fruit beer with wide appeal. I’ve yet to have anyone, even BMC drinkers not say it’s one of the best beers they’ve tasted….period. The secret lies in the name. I moved through Northern Brewer, Nugget and Pearle hops, all in combination with Cascade. Even went with a strict Cascade hop bill which is EdWort's recipe, but was just a bit on the tart side for this lighter grain bill.

This is also a simple, hard to screw up recipe. At just around 4%, this is a quaffer. Hops will boil over, so if you are anywhere near boiling over, it is imperative to lower the heat significantly then add hops, then resume boiling slowly. And brew outside.

The raspberrys are loaded with natural sugar. Yeast loves sugar. Don't be suprised if you have to add a blow off tube to the secondary, a 5 gallon bottle bomb is what we're trying to avoid. Do not buy raspberrys with any added sugar.

Just make sure there is no added sugar in the raspberries. otherwise, you will end up with a stronger/dryer beer. unless you like the dry/strong beer.... ha ha

Look at BM's post regarding using gelatin finings when kegging your beer. I started using it and my beer is always super clear. Beersmith recommends adding Gelatin Finnings to the Secondary Fermenter. This beer is full of seeds & pulp, strain it, filter it, use gelatin. You'll be glad you did. The seeds with clog up your keg if you don't.

I cut the dip tube on one of my kegs and wish I hadn't. If you don't cut it, you will just have to pour a couple of pints when you first tap it to get the gunk out, and then it will run crystal clear. If you secondary with Gelatin, it will be crystal clear when you rack to the keg. I don't like crunchies in my beer.

Brewing fruit beer is not for everyone, but a properly balanced fruit beer can be light and refreshing on a hot summer day. Beers that include fruit vary widely in taste, style and strength. Lighter-bodied beer so work better with most fruits. Darker & bitter beers fight with the fruit. Whatever the style, a properly balanced fruit beer should not betray the underlying taste – fruit beer is a beer with a touch of fruit flavor and not a wine cooler! Let's not overpower everything & just taste the fruit. Adding a flavor extract has an overpowering taste and is not recommended in my experience. Fruit extractsw are amid at the "beginner" segment of the brewing market. This beer's raspberry taste is very subtle & very refreshing. My 1st 5 gallon keg lasted less than 1 week, it's that good. The quality of homebrewed fruit beers can be high because the cost and time factors are not a big issue.

Raspberries are the easiest fruite from which to make beer. Their intese, single-minded character haqngs in there forever and cuts through almost any other flavor present. Red raspberries seem to have a better flavor in beer than black berries.

When brewing with STRAWBERRIES, unless you can get out in the fields and pick them yourself, frozen stawberries are you best bet. BLUEBERRIES seem to fade to nothingness.

Fruit beers are generally formulated to be light tasting, light bodied, and also lightly hopped. The reason for this is simple – most fruits lose a lot of their flavor during fermentation, and a strong malt or hops flavor will tent to overpower the subtle fruit flavors, making the fruit undetectable in the finished beer. A lightly hopped wheat beer as the base beer is often a good choice.

Most authors recommend that you freeze whole fruit once and thaw it before adding it to the beer. Freezing fruit breaks open the cell walls, allowing more flavor and aroma to permeate the beer. I use a rolling pin on the frozen package to further break down the berries. Thaw it before adding it to the secondary however, to avoid shocking the yeast with a sudden change of temperature. Again, do not buy any raspberrys with added sugar. the best way to incorporate fruit into your beer is to add it to the secondary fermenter. Avoid glass carboys, if you must than leave a large headspace and use a blow off tube to avoid blowing up the whole jug.

Add the entire berry package to the secondary fermenter. Before you thaw it, simply crush the entire bag with a rolling pin. I get the 12.0 oz. frozen raspberries @ Walmart for $3.99. Just simply open the crushed, thawed package & put the entire contents in the secondary. Freezing the berry breaks it down. Since whole fruit in particular contains a lot of microbes and bacteria, adding fruit too early in the fermentation process can lead to infection. By the time your beer is in the secondary fermenter, it has a higher alcoholic content, is more acidic and also nutrient depleted but yeast rich, all of which serve as a guard against potential infection.

Definitely don't use raspberry juice. Go to your grocery store in the frozen fruit area and pick up 40 oz of raspberries and just thaw and throw in the fermenter. Read the ingredients label to see if there is any crap in there that you dont want. It's a little expensive but it's great. I never sanitze them. I just thaw and toss them in. They'll float for a while and might drop out of suspension. They'll mostly turn white after the yeasties have had their way with them.Whatever you do I would only add whole fruit to this beer. The juice or extract thing is no good for this one. I have used both red raspberries and black raspberries. Both work great. It's hard to tell the difference to tell you the truth

Raspberry is one of the best fruits to use with beer. The flavor and aroma hold up well to fermentation, and come through well in the finished beer. The flavor is strong even at a rate of 0.5-1 lb per gallon, making raspberry a favorite of commercial beer brewers. 40 oz. or 2 1/2 lbs of rasperries is max, anymore & the flavor is much too stong. It will overpower the beer. I buy a 12 oz. frozen rasberries package @ Walmart. Add the entire berry to the Secondary.

There will be alot of raspberry gunk floating around in the secondary. Don't worry, this is normal. I've tried to add a hop filter to the racking cane when transfering it to the keg, but it didn't keep up the siphon & I found it was overkill. I've since learned to use a metal twist off you get in the grocery store for your fruits & veggies. Combine it with a muslin bag, and you're good.

Since the first pint, it has gotten clearer (I keg) and the raspberry flavor has mellowed out and is less sour. So if you like it sour, drink it up, if you want less sourness, age it. A beer with instructions on how to drink it??? Pour into glass till a 1/4 is left in bottle, then swirl and pur rest into glass. At that point I did have a glass so i just tipped and swirled, then AHHHH, that was a good beer. So i tried it with mine and wallah, it tasted great too. gotta mix up the yeasties, I guess. I do agree with incorporating some of the yeasties back into your glass.....seems to mellow it out even further.

Thanks HBT & Radical Brewing for all the tips! ;-)

Author:

Ben's beers

Boil Size: 20 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.035

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 6

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 19 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/26/2015 4:00 PM

Notes: Seymour's Citra Gold, a popular recipe featured on Jimsbeerkit and devised by regular poster Seymour.

Perfect summer beer, light but assertively hoppy, unmistakeably fruity flavour from the Citra & smooth, silky mouthfeel from the oats.

Author:

Moonbeambrewer

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.025

Efficiency: 45

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/19/2015 8:15 PM

Notes: Used the second running from PSF IPA. Added 1 lb Honey Malt and .05 lb White Wheat malt for steeping.
Added 1 lb DME after boil.
SG 1.035

Safale S04 English Ale yeast

Author:

rruyle99

Boil Size: 6.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.049

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.75

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/12/2016 9:18 PM

Notes: Mash Gravity
1 g - 1.053
2 g - 1.048
3 g - 1.048
4 g - 1.044
5 g - 1.046
6 g - 1.040

Author:

bhive01

Boil Size: 6.55 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 35.48 psi

Creation Date: 8/21/2021 10:57 AM

Notes: 2/2025 Batch 6 - 6 lbs frozen puree var Zara. 10 bags of hibiscus tea (Republic of Tea Hibiscus Superflower Tea in 2 cups boiling water).

11/2023 - Batch 4: Last time the amount of fruit was 4.5 lb in about 5 gallons, frozen, pureed with lots of pectinase added. Adding pectinase to the ingredients. Used about 1/3 of the bottle from BSG (28g total) or about 9-10 grams.

The first two batches, I tried to put in 10 lb, but it was a struggle to fit and made it quite difficult to work with. 5 lb or 1 lb/gallon seemed to work, but the berries I'm using are very flavorful. Regular store-bought ones would likely need more lbs/gallon or boosting with extract.
added pectinase, 1 oz/28g Barbe Rouge, and 5 lb strawberry puree (frozen + food processor) on day 5. Delay due to illness. I think 2 days would have been perfectly post-krausen.

3/2023
Sticking with Barbe Rouge. Newest batch is smaller, putting 5 lbs/5 gallons. This was possibly the best batch I've made.

Substituting lots of things to try out a new yeast (sundew) and hops (HBC 630). Tried Zamba as dry hop and worked. Shifting to Barbe Rouge to accent red fruit.

Added hibiscus tea to attempt 2 (Zamba) to give a more acidic note and also a little bit more color. Turned out very nicely.

Copied from: https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/222855/fruity-blonde

Original Authors notes:
This has been my go to ale recipe for years. It is light, flavorful, and loved by everyone who pulls a pint. You could dry it out a bit by adding a pound of suar or maze in the boil, but it stands well on its own.I brew it at least once a month. I never shared it until now as a friend of mine entered it into a local comp and won 1st overall.
Add a little gypsum to get mash ph to 5.5

let it ferment for 14 days and keg to 3vol.

Author:

BrewHop

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 81

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/24/2012 9:45 PM

Notes: Seemed to not drop too much during the mash.

Author:

obvold

Boil Size: 28.5 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.04

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/15/2016 11:47 AM

Notes:

Author:

Jason Franssen

Boil Size: 6 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: N/A

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/13/2012 2:15 AM

Notes: 50g Jack Daniels barrel chips soaked in Jack Daniels during fermentation, added post fermentation with the bourbon

Author:

Happenstance Brewing Company

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.067

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 2.0

Primary Temp: 48 ° F

Priming Method: Corn sugar

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/27/2013 8:53 PM

Notes: Double India Pale Lager

- 3L starter built up over 3 days with an associated temp drop of 5F/day/L wort addition to ease the yeast into the lager temp range.
- Mash at 152F for 75 minutes
- First Wort Hops added at 180F as boil starts
- corn sugar added with 20 to go
- Kill the flame, let the boil die down, add the 0 min Whirlpool hops, swirl, cover and let sit for 60 minutes.
- Add 0 min Aroma hops at 175F while chilling.

- Pitch at 46F and ferment at 48F until the krausen falls and attenuation is around 75% (1.036 or so). Raise to 56F for a diacetyl rest.
- Diacetyl rest at 56F for the last few days until FG is as close as you can get it.
- Rack to secondary and coast into a lager temp of 36F in 5F increments (56-51-46-41-36). Lager for 8 weeks.

- Once lagering has finished, raise temp to 68F and dry hop for 4 days (two 2 day stage dry hop).
- Prime, bottle and let sit for 3 weeks at 68F.

Author:

Genus Brewing

Boil Size: 3 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.095

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 62 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/1/2017 2:52 AM

Notes: Great Western Sacchra 50L used in Place of .5 lb crystal 60.

Author:

JustinAVL

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 10

Boil Gravity: 1.036

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 75 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/25/2018 1:16 PM

Notes: Kettle Sour with Goodbelly

Boil for 10 mns to kill lacto

Pitch Sacc Trois and ferment

Referment on 10 lbs of peaches

Author:

stusiegel

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.118

Efficiency: 85

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/21/2016 5:51 PM

Notes:

Author:

Mike Theodore

Boil Size: 8.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 6/22/2015 2:37 PM

Notes: Add the zest of 4 oranges and 0.5 oz of ginger at 15 mins.

Author:

matt3424

Boil Size: 1.7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.039

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/14/2016 4:29 AM

Notes:

Author:

wixie

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.017

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/28/2018 8:39 PM

Notes:

Author:

Aksarben

Boil Size: 4.42 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 62.8

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.75

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/3/2018 2:56 AM

Notes: Pressure cooked wort 6 cups with 44 g Hallertau Hops, then added to main boil. Just before flame out added additional 44 g of Hallertau Hops (in nylon bag). Used immersion chiller, cooled to 70 deg. Aerated and left behind trub in boiler. Moved to 6.5 gallon Mini Brew Conical fermenter and allowed to settle and removed final trub via the 3/4 " bottom valve before pitching a very strong going yeast saved from last batch. Started fermenting within one day Started on 1-28-18 pH of 5.33 mash. Final Brix before pitching yeast O.G was 13.25 = 1.054 S.G. Used 3 gram of Calcium chloride in mash water, mostly distilled.
Beer filtered 2-1-18 through 5 micron. Beer pH on 2-10-18 is pH of 4.44.