A fruit wheat is on my list! Doj this sounds great! What are the first two items on the ingredients list? Also where do you get the cherry extract? Oh..and while I'm at it could you give some assembly instructions. ..
Cheers
Clint
dried wheat extract
liquid wheat extract. (they didn't have enough of the dried wheat extract at the time so I had to improvise and buy a 1.5kg can.) This would equate to about 1.2kg of dried wheat extract.
http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/acatalog/Cherry-Extract.html
Method:
first i've I've super chilled (in freezer) 2 x 2 litre bottles and put another 2 x 2 litre bottles in the fridge.
So I put 3 litres of room temp chase spring into the boiling pot.
I boil the other litre (cos it comes in 2 litre bottles) in a kettle and put 150ml boiled water into a sanistised glass jug - for the yeast. -
The remainder of the water goes into the boil pot. I then boil a full kettle of tap water and place the unopened cans of LWE and Golden syrup into saucepans with the boiled water to loosen the syrup/extract.
Whilst that's warming up I empty the dried wheat extract into the boil pot, stirring first to get a whirlpool in the centre and avoiding getting the extract on the stalk of the stirring paddle, the paddle stirrs around the outside and the dried extract goes in near the middle.
Repeat until all the bags have been poured in. Stir further until clumps have gone.
empty the contents of the cans into the boil pot: use a tea-towel or oven gloves the cans can be quite hot.
raise to a boil for 10 mins - to sterilise. pour into an FV.
the water for the yeast should be 30-35 degrees by now (check it first)so add the yeast to the water in the glass jug.
top up the fermenting vessel (FV) to about 22 litres. add the re-hydrated yeast no higher than 28 deg C. no lower than 20 deg c.
in two weeks time make up the cherry extract in about 100ml of vodka. This gives you 200ml of sanitised cherry extract. boil 300ml of water then add 110-160 (dependant on how fizzy you want it) grams of brewing sugar for 5 mins. to make the priming solution.
bung the lot into a bottling bucket and syphon the beer onto the solution.
bottle it!
keep in warm (20-25 deg c) for 7-14 days* then chill and enjoy.
* use at least one plastic pop bottle to test when it's carbonated. when the bottle is HARD the beer has fizzed up.
any more Q's just ask....
gotta go an pitch the yeast now....