Fruit beer?

[jonewer]

I have some rather nasty beer I made by inadvisedly mixing a tin of bitter with a tin of lager to "see what would happen"

:sick:

Tastes like 1/3rd Tetleys 1/3rd Fosters and 1/3rd Strongbow.

So I plan on decanting to some DJs and adding some frozen berries from the supermarket which are summer berries, black cherries, and sainsburies value luckydip berries, I also have picked some blackberries from the common across the road.

I was wondering how to do this. I am planning on bringing the berries to the boil in a small pot and pouring into a DJ. Then adding up my nasty beer to about 4.5liters total.

How much fruit should I aim to put in each DJ? :wha:

 

[graysalchemy]

Tastes like 1/3rd Tetleys 1/3rd Fosters and 1/3rd Strongbow.

A pint of Golden Snake Bite Please bar man. Uhm :sick: :sick:

No wonder you want to add some fruit :hmm: . If you add black currents you would then get a golden snakebite and black :hmm: :hmm:

I am just making an elderberry stout in which I have 250g of elderberries (juiced) added to the fermenting wort. I don't know if you can taste the elderberries, but I would try it by adding a bit of juice at a time until you get the desired taste.

How long ago did you ferment? has it been kegged or bottled yet as it may mellow with time.

Good luck

AG

 

[jonewer]

Its been in the keg a a month or so and is totally clear. The nasty taste isnt going anywhere!

I'm going to carefully decant into the DJs.... better than tipping it anyway, plus I might learn a thing about fruit beers, something SHE has been nagging me about since I started brewing.

 

[jamesb]

Round 'ere they call half bitter with half lager a "Chinese".

I can't imagine why.

 

[graysalchemy]

Chinese snakebite and black :hmm: :hmm:

What that go well with then?

 

[Alestar]

Stir-fried curry pizza, by the sounds of it. :sick:

 

[graysalchemy]

Is that a pavement stir-fried curry pizza? :sick: :sick: :sick: That is what I used to have when I was a student. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: