Hello Fellow Brewers!
Not everyones cup of tea i understand but a firm favourtie of mine.
I have been searching unsuccesfully for a fruity milkshake ipa/NEIPA kit and decied to have an experiment with a cheap kit someone got me for my birthday.
Currently got the Coopers IPA Can and a mangrove jacks light malt enhancer in the fermentation vessel with 7g of New England Yeast. OG came in at 1.050.
Took about 3 days for fermentation to kick in properly, and 8 days in its still bubbling away steadily.
When fermentation has finished and gravity is dwn to 1.015 ill rack to secondary, adding a healthy oz of mosaic with a hint of citra plus about 1kg of frozen mango and pineapple (defrosted) in hop bags.
Once the desired taste is acheived it will be out with the fruit/hop bags and in with about 250g of lactose in boiled water for sanitary purposes then keg.
I will rack a few bottles of the prehopped and fruited beer off for comparison purposes to see how much impact the fruit has.
Anyone done anything similar? Any advice on lactose/fruit quantities? Ive just been gathering info from the web at various sources and think my quantities will leave me on the tamer side of things.
Cheers!
Not everyones cup of tea i understand but a firm favourtie of mine.
I have been searching unsuccesfully for a fruity milkshake ipa/NEIPA kit and decied to have an experiment with a cheap kit someone got me for my birthday.
Currently got the Coopers IPA Can and a mangrove jacks light malt enhancer in the fermentation vessel with 7g of New England Yeast. OG came in at 1.050.
Took about 3 days for fermentation to kick in properly, and 8 days in its still bubbling away steadily.
When fermentation has finished and gravity is dwn to 1.015 ill rack to secondary, adding a healthy oz of mosaic with a hint of citra plus about 1kg of frozen mango and pineapple (defrosted) in hop bags.
Once the desired taste is acheived it will be out with the fruit/hop bags and in with about 250g of lactose in boiled water for sanitary purposes then keg.
I will rack a few bottles of the prehopped and fruited beer off for comparison purposes to see how much impact the fruit has.
Anyone done anything similar? Any advice on lactose/fruit quantities? Ive just been gathering info from the web at various sources and think my quantities will leave me on the tamer side of things.
Cheers!
