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Good recipe for a beer with blackberries?

Post by Brewedout » Wed Jan 16, 2019 8:07 pm

Does anyone have a good recipe for a blackberry beer? I have a load of frozen ones from the summer that I'd like to use.

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Re: Good recipe for a beer with blackberries?

Post by Meatymc » Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:50 pm

Your best bet would be a Porter - plenty of recipes on here for flavoured Porters

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Re: Good recipe for a beer with blackberries?

Post by Cobnut » Thu Jan 17, 2019 5:42 pm

I brewed a Belgian Strong Golden which I then split 3 ways:
1) bottled "straight";
2) racked to secondary with 70g/L supermarket frozen raspberries;
3) racked to secondary with 70g/L local blackberries which I froze before use.

The 1st scored OK, but the 2nd (raspberry beer) took Gold in the BrewCon World Series last Nov. in London.

The blackberry version (3) had the most horrible murky, cloudiness which seemed intent on staying forever, despite a good flavour balance. However, it has since dropped clear and is a lovely blackberry colour with a subtle blackberry flavour, supported by the 8.5% or so ABV.

Pretty simple recipe:

23L batch
5.8Kg Lager malt
0.58Kg Wheat Malt
0.28Kg Carapils
0.4Kg white sugar (end of boil)

Mash 60 mins @66C
Mash out 10 mins @ 75C

75 min boil
50g EKG for approx. 28 IBU
Irish moss for last 10/15 mins of boil

Fermented with MJ Belgian Ale yeast
I started at 20C for about 5 days then stepped up to 25C for about 5 days and eventually 28C for the last few days.

It is a beer that requires some maturation time, so if you do brew this (or something like it), don't bother tasting it for at least a month. 3-4 is better!
I brewed this in August last year and the Strong Golden would probably score better in a competition than it did in Nov.
Adding the fruit seems to help it get to a good place for drinking a little quicker, but blackberries throw a massive sediment.
It does seem to have been worth the wait though.

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Re: Good recipe for a beer with blackberries?

Post by Brewedout » Thu Jan 17, 2019 5:48 pm

Cobnut wrote:I brewed a Belgian Strong Golden which I then split 3 ways:
1) bottled "straight";
2) racked to secondary with 70g/L supermarket frozen raspberries;
3) racked to secondary with 70g/L local blackberries which I froze before use.

The 1st scored OK, but the 2nd (raspberry beer) took Gold in the BrewCon World Series last Nov. in London.

The blackberry version (3) had the most horrible murky, cloudiness which seemed intent on staying forever, despite a good flavour balance. However, it has since dropped clear and is a lovely blackberry colour with a subtle blackberry flavour, supported by the 8.5% or so ABV.

Pretty simple recipe:

23L batch
5.8Kg Lager malt
0.58Kg Wheat Malt
0.28Kg Carapils
0.4Kg white sugar (end of boil)

Mash 60 mins @66C
Mash out 10 mins @ 75C

75 min boil
50g EKG for approx. 28 IBU
Irish moss for last 10/15 mins of boil

Fermented with MJ Belgian Ale yeast
I started at 20C for about 5 days then stepped up to 25C for about 5 days and eventually 28C for the last few days.

It is a beer that requires some maturation time, so if you do brew this (or something like it), don't bother tasting it for at least a month. 3-4 is better!
I brewed this in August last year and the Strong Golden would probably score better in a competition than it did in Nov.
Adding the fruit seems to help it get to a good place for drinking a little quicker, but blackberries throw a massive sediment.
It does seem to have been worth the wait though.

James
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Re: Good recipe for a beer with blackberries?

Post by Northern Brewer » Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:52 pm

Offbeat used to do a blackberry mild which kinda worked.

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Re: Good recipe for a beer with blackberries?

Post by Brewedout » Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:01 pm

I've found a blackberry wit recipe in one of my books, thought this might be a possibility too. Although not quite summer yet...

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