Saison Type Fruit Beer

[SMP Brewery]

Off on hols the end of this week and when I get back I’m trying to think of a brew using stuff that I have, I’m thinking of trying a Saison/Wheat beer with some fruit we have in the freezer, which is mainly black currents, red currents, and a few raspberries and blackberries.

I’m thinking of going with blackcurrant and then some raspberry to offset the tartness.

I have some belle saison yeast.

For the Malt bill I’ll probably go something like 45% Vienna & 45% Wheat and then some oats.

Then for the hops definitely using some Saaz and have load of Pilgrim which I could use for bittering.

Any thoughts on this concoction or could I be wasting my time with this one.

 

[Agentgonzo]

Off on hols the end of this week and when I get back I’m trying to think of a brew using stuff that I have, I’m thinking of trying a Saison/Wheat beer with some fruit we have in the freezer, which is mainly black currents, red currents, and a few raspberries and blackberries.

I’m thinking of going with blackcurrant and then some raspberry to offset the tartness.

I have some belle saison yeast.

For the Malt bill I’ll probably go something like 45% Vienna & 45% Wheat and then some oats.

Then for the hops definitely using some Saaz and have load of Pilgrim which I could use for bittering.

Any thoughts on this concoction or could I be wasting my time with this one.

Nope. Sounds lovely. My saison recipe is 80/20 pilsner/Munich, Which will be pretty much the same as yours minus the oats. I find the "dark" berries (black, rasp and cherries) go really well. My preferred was the raspberry one.

I tried strawberries to - not so good.

 

[SMP Brewery]

My saison recipe is 80/20 pilsner/Munich

That’s not helped as I have that in stock as well, could go either way now

I find the "dark" berries (black, rasp and cherries) go really well.

Excellent

 

[Agentgonzo]

That’s not helped as I have that in stock as well, could go either way now


Excellent

Well according to "people on the internet" (), Vienna malt can sometimes just be a 50:50 mix of pilsner and Munich (to make the manufacturing process easier).

 

[SMP Brewery]

My preferred was the raspberry one.

What ratio of fruit / ltr did you use? And at stages of the process?

 

[Agentgonzo]

What ratio of fruit / ltr did you use? And at stages of the process?

Fermented out fully in the primary (I did a split batch), then 5L in a secondary with approx 850g of frozen raspberries