Tastes is there, its difficult to get the yeast/chill haze that McMenamins has to stay even not using Whirlfloc/etc. May be easier in bottle, but with Keg everything settles out eventually. I can only assume they go through kegs so quickly they never have time to settle out.
DO NOT ACTUALLY ADD DEXTROSE, the line is only to represent sugar content from the puree so the ABV is accurate.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homebrewing/comments/4nhuht/my_take_on_mcmenamins_ruby/
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Oh. I can help! Mcmenamins brewer here! (Anderson school).
Rubys recipe isnt really a secret and it is also very simple. It is essentially a base of two row and raspberry puree (we use oregon fruit products).
Typically make a base beer of 2 row to get you a SG of 1.040-1.045. We add the raspberries about 10-15 points from TG. Typically you want your TG around 1.005-1.007. The great thing about oregon fruit products is its asceptic (flash boiled), so you can add it during primary (carefully).
Grab enough hops to get the ibus to under 5. (Neutral bittering hops at 60 minutes and thats about it.)
Recently weve been adding maltodextrine for body during boil but not necessary.
But thats about it. We do have a proprietary yeast strain that does provide a unique pub style haze anf flavor, but US-05 or an english house strain will do just fine.
Good luck, thanks for drinking our beer.
