Wheat beer advice needed

[jordan123]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the forum but in need of some home brew advice. I'm looking to brew a Mango and Passionfruit Witbier which is by far the most ambitious brew that I have done.

I've got a Wheat beer kit from Wilko as well as some light spray malt. I've seen that you can get a wheat spraymalt but wasn't sure how much of a difference this would actually make. Would the wheat spraymalt make much of a difference?

My plan is then to do a one week first fermentation then cook some mango and passionfruit to make a puree and then rack the beer over this for a second fermentation of a week before bottling. I'm conscious that using fresh fruit in the fermentation may make the beer go bad, but have seen a recipe using this method and hoping that the alcohol from the first fermentation as well as cooking the fruit first will prevent this from happening. If anyone has any experience of doing this any thoughts/advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Jordan

 

[dad_of_jon]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the forum but in need of some home brew advice. I'm looking to brew a Mango and Passionfruit Witbier which is by far the most ambitious brew that I have done.

I've got a Wheat beer kit from Wilko as well as some light spray malt. I've seen that you can get a wheat spraymalt but wasn't sure how much of a difference this would actually make. Would the wheat spraymalt make much of a difference?

My plan is then to do a one week first fermentation then cook some mango and passionfruit to make a puree and then rack the beer over this for a second fermentation of a week before bottling. I'm conscious that using fresh fruit in the fermentation may make the beer go bad, but have seen a recipe using this method and hoping that the alcohol from the first fermentation as well as cooking the fruit first will prevent this from happening. If anyone has any experience of doing this any thoughts/advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Jordan

I make all my beers with wheat spraymalt, other here will tell you what temp you need to cook at and for how long to pasteurize your puree.

I just poured 9 litres of 100% apple juice from concentrate into my home made version of this....

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/how-to-brew/how-to-make-graf-a-cider-beer-hybrid/

or snakebite as it used to be known although that was lager and cider?

it is better to add the fruit after primary fermentation has finished because I've found it scrubs away a lot of fruit character. Having said that I definitely still had apple with my last brew and that was done as a single main ferment.

Ive done raspberry, orange and cherry wheats and don't get as much flavor from them as i'd like by putting the juice in the primary.

I'm looking to do a Mango beer myself 9 litres juice and 13 litres water plus 2.5kg spraymalt :-)

 

[Grizzly299]

I'd be tempted to add the fruit at as many stages as possible, that way you should get a good depth of flavour from it. For you that would mean primary and secondary. For all-grain it would be end of boil, primary and secondary. Of course it depends on the intensity of flavour that you're after.

 

[H0PM0NSTER]

I'm not sure I'd bother trying to cook up fresh fruit - you risk adding wild yeast or bacteria if it's not cooked properly and if it is you'll just be left with a stewed fruit flavour.

I've added frozen fruit to beer (black cherry stout and raspberry wheat beer) and both worked well adding the fruit after primary fermentation has completed and letting it sit in the beer until bottling.

I'd recommend using wheat spray malt - it does add the flavour of a wheat beer. Also worth getting a good yeast to suit the style rather than just using the stuff included with the kit.

 

[jordan123]

Thanks everyone really useful advice, I'm going to get some wheat spray malt and some mangrove jacks Bavarian wheat yeast to boost my kit, I'll also go with frozen mango as I think it will help the mango retain its flavour.

I'm going to stick with fruit in the secondary fermentation as I'm not looking for in your face mango as I think it may make the beer too sweet and I'm scared of contaminating the beer. I'll let you know how I get on.