Brewing Method: Extract
Yeast: Wyeast 1056
Yeast Starter: none
Batch Size: 5 gals
Original Gravity: ?
Final Gravity: ?
Alcohol Content: ? %
Total Grains:
Color:
Extract Efficiency: %
Hop IBU's:
Boiling Time: 60min
Primary Fermentation: 1 week 66 deg
Secondary Fermentation: 1 week66 deg
Additional Fermentation:
Grain Bill:
2 cans (6.6 lbs) extra lite unhopped extract,
1 lb crystal malt, cracked, 20 L
10 12 oz pkg frozen rasberries
I C honey for priming
Hop Bill:
2 1/2 oz Hallertauer hops; I oz at 15 min into boil, 1/2 oz at 30 min, and 1/2 oz at 45 min, and 1/2 oz at 55 min
Mash Schedule:
Brewers Notes:
Boiled 2 gals water, cooled and placed into 6 1/2 gal carboy. To 2 1/2 gals water, place crystal malt (in grainbag) and bring to boil. Remove from heat, remove grain bag, add extracts, and return to boiling. Wring grain bag into wort. At 15 min into boil, add 1 oz hops, at 30 min, add 1/2 oz, at 45 min, add 1/2 oz, at 55 min, add 1/2 oz. Placed in sink filled with cold water, to lower temp slightly. When reached approx 155 deg, returned to stove and maintain that temp; place 5 bags of rasberries into wort at this time for 15 minutes (in grain bag). Return to sink and cool wort to approx 100 deg, and place into fermenter. Add I more pkg of rasberries into fermenter at this time. Will aid in lowering of wort temp. Pitched yeast; I have never had very good luck with the wyeast. This batch sat dead for 24 hours, and I ended up using pkg of Danstar yeast; it took off right away. After high-kroysen, I added the rest of the rasberries, which had been pureed with 2 campden tabs in a food processor. The fermentation took off again. At the end of 7 days, the primary was done, and I racked it to another carboy, for another week. Lots of sediment and rasberry frags floating around. Racked again off sediment for 3 days, and then bottled using 1 C honey boiled with 1 C water. Beautiful red color, and lots of unmistakable rasberry flavor and tartness. Perhaps too tart, but, less than a month after bottling, its gone. Next time, perhaps less rasberries, and add them all to secondary, rather than the hot wort.