Berries!
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Well, more progress on the Wheat Berry Ale that I’ve been working on. When I got home after work today it seemed that the fermentation had progressed to the point where I could add the berries. This, however, isn’t quite as simple as dumping them in, because they will ferment more, causing more krausen, and I need to get the beer off of the trub (oil / yeast / hops gunk left in the carboy). So, first I had to first rack (transfer) the beer to a 5 gallon carboy and set it aside. Then I washed and sanitized the inside of the 6.5 gallon carboy, which due to the incredible amounts of gunk inside was no simple task.
Then it was time to take the thawed berries (which had been previously frozen to -15°F and were thusly frozen quite solid) and add them to the carboy. After getting getting the berries into the carboy I then had to simply rack the beer back on to the berries and give it a gentle stir.
After putting the carboy to ferment one could see berry chunks floating in the beer along with a settling layer of a whiteish fluff. This became even more apparent after it sat for a few minutes.
(And that has been another link-er-iffic post, this time made with context-appropriate links instead of bullet points. Oh, and I forgot that I snapped this, and I guess it came out decent: a picture of me from when I was grinding metal to make the power supply bracket for the forthcoming rez.nuxx.net.)
Let me know how it turns out. I would seriously buy some of that off of you!
Hehe… Well, I can’t sell it, but I am apt to give some away. We’ll see how it comes out, first…
We can barter then. :P
damn tax laws
I think if we brought back prohibition, all would be good.
This stuff sounds AMAZING.
Thank you. :) I really don’t know how it’ll be, though. I’ve just got hopes that it’s good…
I can say that the berries have definitely started fermenting, as can be seen here. Maybe another… month until it’s ready to drink?