Blueberry Wheat 19/11/10

[tubby_shaw]

I haven't posted a brewday in a while so .........
Started this off last night

Blueberry wheat
33L OG 1.050
3.5kg Pale Malt
3kg Wheat malt
40g Cascade Whole hops
Yeast WLP 300

The Grist

Mash on (a lot of chaff on the top :hmm: )

The cascades in the boiler

Hop soup

Rolling boil

Lots of hot break material

The colour as it drops into the FV

And the filth

The idea is to pitch the blueberries from this blueberry vodka into the beer once it's fermenting well (No activity yet 23 hours after pitching )

As it goes into secondary I will add a further kilo of defrosted frozen blueberries :thumb:

 

[Wez]

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out :thumb:

 

[Mark1964]

Looks very interesting i like blueberries

 

[tubby_shaw]

The yeast is finally fermenting the beer so it's time for some blueberries :grin:
The drained vodka infused blueberries

Into the fermenting wort they go

I'm liking the reddish/purple colour left on the foam, will I get pink beer :shock: :lol:

 

[Wez]

:party: really looking forward to this!

 

[rickthebrew]

sounds amazing TS :clap: how is the vodka ?

 

[tubby_shaw]

sounds amazing TS :clap: how is the vodka ?

It's very blueberryeyey :lol:
But a little sweet for my tastes. I'll leave it for the ladies that made it :grin:

 

[tubby_shaw]

After worrying about a slow start from the WLP300, I came home to this today :shock:

and there's about 20l of head space in that FV
I guess it had a party with the vodka :party:

 

[Mark1964]

looking like a good fermentation good luck with it :

 

[rickthebrew]

It doesn`t look very safe on that stool Its certainly going for it :thumb:

 

[unclepumble]

Looking good Mr shaw, and you have given me a very good idea whith what I might just do with a quantity of sloes I currently have steeping in some gin.

Sloe Porter maybee :wha:

UP

 

[Good Ed]

Straying away from the post a bit, but Uncle, you might want to try this. Add any sloes or damsons that you have been using for gin/vodka and add then to a bottle of sherry, turn each day for a week, store for 3-6 weeks, 1 tablespoon of sugar at 2 weeks optional, strain out the fruit, and there you have it; sherry with a bit extra. However adding to beer is a bit more interesting :grin:

Watching with interest TS; great stuff :

 

[unclepumble]

Straying away from the post a bit, but Uncle, you might want to try this. Add any sloes or damsons that you have been using for gin/vodka and add then to a bottle of sherry, turn each day for a week, store for 3-6 weeks, 1 tablespoon of sugar at 2 weeks optional, strain out the fruit, and there you have it; sherry with a bit extra. However adding to beer is a bit more interesting :grin:

Watching with interest TS; great stuff :

Might be worth adding to the sherry and then onto a beer or maybe not :? :wha:


UP

 

[Good Ed]

Perpetual brewing; you've cracked it :party:

 

[tubby_shaw]

The sg of this is down to 1.010 now so it has been transferred to secondary and a further 400g of mashed up blueberries added
Here's what was left behind in the primary fv

And here it is waiting for me to deal with it later

 

[Good Ed]

Quite a bit of colour; yer taste it?

 

[tubby_shaw]

I did indeed taste it :thumb:
Unfortunately it was at 4°C so it didn't taste of much

 

[StubbsPKS]

THIS is exactly what I had in mind when I started brewing. It's also why I can't WAIT to make the jump to the dark side :clap: :clap:

Looking forward to hearing how it came out!