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Raspberry

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About a month I picked up this raspberry wine base. Gonna use it twice today.

1/2 of it is going into a cider. So nothing fancy. Just store bought apple juice, and some cider yeast.

Gravity on the cider going in was 1.084. With no added sugar, that was a bit surprising.

Next up I threw all my left over grains together and came out somewhere in between a dunkle and a bock. OG of the beer was 1.058. with the rest of the Raspberry base it hit 1.080

Kinda worried though about the amount of raspberry in the beer. That’s only about 2 qts in the carboy. Buy when I used some hot wort to rinse the jug out and poured it back into the kettle,, I could already taste raspberry just from the rinsed out bit in the full batch.

Well we will see.

Just a yeast cake..

stoutmakerLeave a comment

It’s been quite a while since I have used US05. I forgot it makes cool looking yeast cakes.

This was just a simple IPA with a bit of midnight wheat for some color. Tastes great right out of the fermenter.

Hopefully I can get another brew in this week. I was planning a saison, but I may do a leftovers brew to get rid of things so I can get on track this year.

Looks like the leftovers will include Pilsner, Munich, various crystals and I think there is a couple of oz of roast barley. Hops are mostly cascades, with some saaz and tet.