Back to Search
Back to Search
Beer Style: Fruit Beer (20A)
Recipe Type: extract
Yield: 5 US gallons
Description:
Typical Wheat color and IBU's. Blackberries make an excellent flavor additive to Wit. The blackberries add a lot of their own acid, so very little hops are needed. I have made this many times and is very popular. The key to success with this recipe is time in the secondary. I have played with specialty grains, but it just doesn't come off as a Wit when I did.
calculated IBU's: 13.3, trust me it tastes 25 with the berries, don't up the hops.
Ingredients:
- 3lbs. Extra Light Dry Extract or Pils malt
- 3lbs. Wheat Dry Exctract
- 1lb specially prepared Blackberries (frozen)
- 1 oz. Willamette hops (or Fuggles, Columbia)
- Wyeast 3463 (good substitute: 3944)
- 1/4 oz Irish Moss
Additional Instructions
Primary Ferment: 5 daysSecondary Ferment: 6 weeks
Beer Profile
Original Gravity: 1.052
Final Gravity: 1.008
Alcohol by Vol: 5.76%
Recipe Type: extract
Yield: 5.00 US Gallons
Procedure:
* Special prep of the blackberries: boil black berries in 1 quart water for 20 minutes. Crush and agitate the berries often and freeze. It is a hassle, but I've learned freezing in Ice cube trays is really handy, a turkey baster makes it easy.
Brew day:
Start with 4 Gallons of water
Bring to boil
Add hops & extracts
boil 45 minutes
Add Irish moss
boil 15 minutes
Add water to bring total volume to 5 gallons
add frozen blackberries
cool to 80 degrees F
pitch yeast
Source: Seth Park
You can buy the kit with all the ingredients to brew this recipe.
Beer Kits make 5 gallons of quality homebrew and includes: instructions, freshly-milled malted barley, extract, muslin steeping bag(s), brewer's yeast, hops, carbonation sugar and 60 easy-peel labels. All-Grain kits do not include steeping bag(s) or extract.
Buy the Kit