Homebrew Report 27x8f

[Adam8281]

This beer should be interesting. As my friend Matthew said the other day, there is no in-between with Rasberry Red Honey-Apple Ale, it's either awesome or it sucks.

I bought the ingredients for Rasberry Red Ale, which is basically a red ale with rasberry extract added. But the other day I was at the grocery store and decided I'd experiment with some adjuncts. I ended up adding a pound of honey and 2 cans of apple concentrate to the original recipe. I'll quote the recipe here, and update throughout as to how the process is going. The original gravity of the wort was 1.064, so this should be a pretty strong brew if all goes well!

6 lbs. Gold Malt Extract (Liquid)
12 oz. Crystal 40L Malt
2 oz. Special B malt
2 oz. Roasted Barley Malt
1 oz. Cascade Hops (Bittering Hops)
1 oz. Fuggles Hops (Aroma Hops)
1 lb. pure, unfiltered honey
2 cans apple juice concentrate
Munton's Dry Ale Yeast

After fermentation:
4 oz. Raspberry Extract
3/4 c. priming sugar

I'm really hoping this will be a good beer, but I'm a little worried that maybe I went a little too crazy with it. But honestly, even if it isn't stellar, I'm sure I'll like it since it's the product of my own hands! This is my second-ever batch of homebrew. My first was a nut brown ale that is AWESOME!!! I still have a little over half of that batch left, and it's the best beer I've ever had.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

That does sound like an all-or-nothing brew. It could be tasty or undrinkable, and it's a tough one to predict. I can't say I've ever been one for fruit flavors in beer, but one of my all-time favorite beers was a friend's pumpkin porter, so I guess you never know.

 

[avatar08]

Should be pretty good.

Life begins at 60 1.060 that is

 

[Adam8281]

Well, fermentation is slowing down, after almost 3 days. It was a pretty vigorous ferment. I'm only doing single fermentation because I haven't bought a carboy yet.

 

[Eli]

What's a rasberry?

 

[GroundZero]

that's not beer!

that's a freaking fruity girly-boy drink!

bust out the umbrellas and call queer-eye when you drink that swill!

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: GroundZero
that's not beer!

that's a freaking fruity girly-boy drink!

bust out the umbrellas and call queer-eye when you drink that swill!

What I'm tryign to say is that I have a small penis and that I'm not comfortable enough in my own manhood to enjoy a smooth refreshing brew.

A good raspberry wheat beer is about the best beer you can have on a warm summer day. I would imagine that this beer would be similar assuming it had a good balance.

 

[Farbio]

i really need to get into some homebrewing, all you guys that talk about this make me so jealous!
where can i find some more info on this all?

 

[Adam8281]

midwestsupplies is a good site. You can buy all your ingredients seperately there, or you can buy "kits" that already include all the ingredients you will need to brew a batch. Plus, you can buy a beginning brewer's set, for about $50 you will get all the equipment you need to brew beer. By the way, this is not girly-man beer! It doesn't have enough fruit adjuncts to overpower the malt and hops taste (hopefully). Hopefully the fruit flavors will be subtle, it's only 4 oz. of raspberry concentrate, and the apple concentrate and honey should ferment away enough that there is good background flavor without turning into a "flavored malt beverage."

 

[MaximusH825]

http://www.icixsound.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=31

http://www.homebrewsupplyoftexas.com/

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Let us know how it turns out! I haven't brewed a damn thing for at least 10 weeks.

 

[Adam8281]

I just bottled the brew. Final gravity was 1.020, which should put the ABV at about 6.5%, pretty good! I tasted the beer I used to measure gravity and it was great, not too fruity or anything. Even my wife thought it was good, and she rarely likes beer. It is a nice reddish golden color. Now I just have to let it siit for a few weeks, and I'll write back when I finally crack one open. At least I still have a case left of my last brew, that makes it easier to wait for this one.

 

[Adam8281]

Alright, I finally cracked one open. This beer is good, but definitely not as good as my previous brew, Nut Brown Ale. Despite the adjuncts in this brew, I don't taste many fruit flavors. The only really noticible one is the raspberry, and I imagine that is because I added it after fermentation was complete. The apple concentrate and honey, since they fermented, didn't leave much flavor, at least not any strong flavors. I can taste subtle apple. The alcohol in this brew is definitely noticible, I started to feel a bit tipsy after one bottle, although I hadn't eaten. This brew is reddish brown in color, and a lot more transparent than the Nut Brown Ale. It's definitely a successful brew, although the amazing complex flavors of the previous beer make this one not appear so great by comparison.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: Adam8281
Alright, I finally cracked one open. This beer is good, but definitely not as good as my previous brew, Nut Brown Ale. Despite the adjuncts in this brew, I don't taste many fruit flavors. The only really noticible one is the raspberry, and I imagine that is because I added it after fermentation was complete. The apple concentrate and honey, since they fermented, didn't leave much flavor, at least not any strong flavors. I can taste subtle apple. The alcohol in this brew is definitely noticible, I started to feel a bit tipsy after one bottle, although I hadn't eaten. This brew is reddish brown in color, and a lot more transparent than the Nut Brown Ale. It's definitely a successful brew, although the amazing complex flavors of the previous beer make this one not appear so great by comparison.

nice work

pics?

 

[Adam8281]

i'll try to put pics up soon

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

has the beer aged at all?

oh btw, apple flavors and aromas are overpowered very easily.

 

[SZLiao214]

All this stuff makes me want to brew my own beer. Looks fun. To bad im to young to drink right now.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Originally posted by: SZLiao214
All this stuff makes me want to brew my own beer. Looks fun. To bad im to young to drink right now.

All the more reason to brew your own.

 

[brtspears2]

This makes me want to brew another batch of beer, though I'm still drinking the last 3 batches.

 

[OffTopic1]

Fruit beers has to be some of the most discussing drink that I have ever tasted.

One of the local pub/micro brewer here experimented with fruit beer for about 5 years and they brew 5-6 new flavors every month for trial. Raspberry, strawberry, blackberry, currant, cranberry, apricot, grapes, kiwi, coffee, and mint are gross. However, the blackcurrant/licorice beer that I had tried isn?t bad.

 

[SZLiao214]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy

Originally posted by: SZLiao214
All this stuff makes me want to brew my own beer. Looks fun. To bad im to young to drink right now.

All the more reason to brew your own.

Lol, thanks happy puppy, thats an awesome idea.