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Spike101uk

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Wondered if I could have some feedback on a recipe i wanna try.

1 can coopers wheat beer
1kg dried wheat extract
2 410g tins black cherry pie filling (to be added after primary in secondary vessel before bottling)

I was going to go orange and corriander but I like cherry and beer, and mixing the 2 seems like a good idea
 
I tried adding cherries from a can to an all grain recipe of wheat beer , it didnt taste to good had a metaly taste about it. I think next time i will try the cherry syrup.
 
Lowicz do a cherry syrup
Have used the syrups in ciders would assume they woulds go ok in a beer!
 
Ahhhhhhhh
the cherry is one i did not try,don't like the taste of cherry in any drinks. Would imagine it would do so .
 
I tried a few times do do a cherry wheat beer. You absolutely need to add the cherry whatever at secondary as primary scrubs a lot of flavor/aroma. however to get the cherry kick I wanted meant ending up with an 8% beer. I'd suggest a concentrated cherry extract rather than the polish syrup. cherries aren't cheap unfortunately if you want a good cherry flavor it will cost :-( compare the price of brewfferms kriek with their framboos !

i'm after the kick you get in a KASTEEL ROUGE but in a wheat beer.
 
Ok just been reading about smoked wheat beers, how would or could I do that instead of cherries with a pre hopped coopers tin, shall I just steep some smoked grain in water and use that with my dried extract
 
Spike101uk said:
Ok just been reading about smoked wheat beers, how would or could I do that instead of cherries with a pre hopped coopers tin, shall I just steep some smoked grain in water and use that with my dried extract
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yes :thumb:

I have some smoked malt to

a) put in a wheat beer
b) to put in a RIS
 
dad_of_jon said:
I tried a few times do do a cherry wheat beer. You absolutely need to add the cherry whatever at secondary as primary scrubs a lot of flavor/aroma. however to get the cherry kick I wanted meant ending up with an 8% beer. I'd suggest a concentrated cherry extract rather than the polish syrup. cherries aren't cheap unfortunately if you want a good cherry flavor it will cost :-( compare the price of brewfferms kriek with their framboos !

i'm after the kick you get in a KASTEEL ROUGE but in a wheat beer.
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Yea and most of the krieks are in 250ml bottles, but IMHO there worth every penny.
I did ask a brewer in a Belgium brewery not so long ago about this and he did say they add a syrup, sometimes to there sours which kind of makes sense as you get that sweet and sour taste all in a mouthfull and im sure you wouldnt get that sweetness from cherries alone.
Did you use a syrup?
 
aj65 said:
Yea and most of the krieks are in 250ml bottles, but IMHO there worth every penny.
I did ask a brewer in a Belgium brewery not so long ago about this and he did say they add a syrup, sometimes to there sours which kind of makes sense as you get that sweet and sour taste all in a mouthfull and im sure you wouldnt get that sweetness from cherries alone.
Did you use a syrup?
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Yes I used the polish syrup but it wasn't as concentrated as I wanted, it's intended as an ice cream topping amongst other things. Still its not much more that £1 a bottle and you'll still have a great wheat beer, just not a full on cherry one.
 

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