Fruit Beer Base Beer Recipe | All Grain Fruit Beer by Nagging Wife Brewery | Brewer's Friend
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Fruit Beer Base

177 calories 16.6 g 12 oz
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Beer Stats
Method: All Grain
Style: Fruit Beer
Boil Time: 90 min
Batch Size: 2.5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Pre Boil Size: 3.77 gallons
Pre Boil Gravity: 1.036 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 70% (brew house)
Source: Adapted from BYO.com (Jamil Zainasheff)
Rating:
3.00 (1 Review)

Calories: 177 calories (Per 12oz)
Carbs: 16.6 g (Per 12oz)
Created: Wednesday June 10th 2015
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Fermentables
Amount Fermentable Cost PPG °L Bill %
2.40 lb American - White Wheat2.4 lb White Wheat 40 2.8 43.2%
2.40 lb American - Pale Ale2.4 lb Pale Ale 37 3.5 43.2%
0.25 lb American - Caramel / Crystal 20L0.25 lb Caramel / Crystal 20L 35 20 4.5%
0.50 lb Rice Hulls0.5 lb Rice Hulls 0 0 9%
5.55 lbs / $ 0.00
 
Hops
Amount Variety Cost Type AA Use Time IBU Bill %
12 g Domestic Hallertau12 g Domestic Hallertau Hops Pellet 4.3 Boil 60 min 15.7 100%
12 g / $ 0.00
 
Mash Guidelines
Amount Description Type Start Temp Target Temp Time
4.52 qt Protein Rest Infusion -- 125 °F 20 min
2.8 qt Sacharification Infusion -- 154 °F 60 min
2.6 qt Mash Out Infusion -- 168 °F 5 min
8.6 qt Batch Sparge Sparge -- 170 °F 10 min
Starting Mash Thickness: 0.9 qt/lb
 
Yeast
Fermentis - Safale - American Ale Yeast US-05
Amount:
1 Each
Cost:
Attenuation (avg):
81%
Flocculation:
Medium
Optimum Temp:
54 - 77 °F
Starter:
Yes
Fermentation Temp:
68 °F
Pitch Rate:
0.5 (M cells / ml / ° P) 63 B cells required
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Notes

Initial Strike Water @ 137
Infusions @ boiling
Ending Mash Thickness at 2.0 qt/lb

Yeast harvested from previous batch.

Tried to get by with 4 oz rice hulls. Sparge stuck at very end. Definitely increase to 8 oz.

First fruit tried with this was 2 lbs frozen mixed berry blend (blackberry/blueberry/raspberry) from Costco plus 10 oz rhubarb from my yard. All brought to about 165 for 10 min to pasteurize.

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Cost $ Cost %
Fermentables $
Steeping Grains
(Extract Only)		 $
Hops $
Yeast $
Other $
Cost Per Barrel $ 0.00
Cost Per Pint $ 0.00
Total Cost $ 0.00
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Nagging Wife Brewery • 12/17/2015 at 02:38am
3 of 5

I think the base recipe is still pretty sound but this particular batch using the berries and the rhubarb turned out a little thin. I think I put too much water in the pot with berries to pasteurize it and ended up diluting. I would suggest if you try to pasteurize, just put all the fruit in the pot, mash it up, then use a little water if you need to but just enough.

Also - berries and rhubarb is too tart in my opinion. Once the sugars in the berries were fermented out they were tart enough by themselves. Leave the rhubarb out.


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