The last of 12 beers for the Skirmish in the Triad!!!  Whoa.  My brewing muscles are tired!  This is also a new beer I want to brew for NHC so I’m excited to see how it goes.  The base beer is the Berliner Weisse I’ve brewed many many times and now have a process I like and then just adding Oregon Fruit Raspberry Puree post primary fermentation.  So, my BW process is pretty standard kettle sour technique.  I mash, run off and then boil for 30 mins.  I then chill to 90F and pitch an Omega Lacto Blend.  This stuff is the bomb!  After all my different experiments this is the one I have settled on.  It sours FAST, is very clean and doesn’t drop the gravity at all.  After 24 hrs I’m usually down around 3.4 which is a good level by my tasted.  I then boil for 30 more minutes and follow a standard process from there.  For this beer I’ll wait till fermenation ends and then add 3 lbs of raspberry puree which should be about 0.75 lbs per gallon since it’s going into a 4 gallon batch.

Recipe Info

Recipe: berliner weisse raspberry
Style: Berliner Weisse 23A BJCP 2015
Date: 09-14-2016

	Recipe	Guideline Min	Guideline Max
OG	1.030	1.028	1.032
FG	1.006	1.003	1.006
Color	2.6	2.0	3.0
ABV	3.1	2.8	3.8
IBU	0.0	3.0	8.0

Brewery Info

Efficiency: 72 %
Attenuation: 80 %

Mash Info

Weight: 7.0 Lbs
Thickness: 3.4 Qt per Lb
Deadspace: 2.5 G
Strikewater: 8.45 G
Volume: 9.01 G
Temp: 125.0 F

Boil Info

Kettle Gravity: 1.025
Predicted Mash Run-off: 7.82 G
Target Starting Boil Volume: 7.75 G
Boil Duration: 60 min
Evaporation Rate: 1.25 G per Hour
Final Boil Volume: 6.5 G

Fermentables

Weight	% by Weight	Name	Yield	SRM
4.000 Lb	57.0 %	Pilsen (BestMälz)	78.3	1.5
3.000 Lb	43.0 %	Wheat Malt; White (Rahr)	88.0	2.8

Hops

Weight

Name

AAU

Time

Use

IBUs

Yeast

Amount	Name
2.000 units	lalvin ec-1118 DCL/Fermentis ev-1118
1.000 unit	Lactobacillus Blend Omega OYL-605

Misc

Amount	Name	Time	Use
1.000 tablet	Whirlfloc Tablet	15 mins	Boil
0.500 tsp	Yeast Nutrient (Wyeast)	10 mins	Boil

Water

Predicted Mash Ph: 5.52

	Ca	Mg	Na	Cl	So	Bicarbonate
Water	7	3	21	11	24	46
Mash	67	3	21	117	24	46
Sparge	0	0	0	0	0	0
Final	87	4	27	152	31	60
Target	75	0	0	0	0	0

Mash Water

Total Water Treated: 8.450 G
Percent RO / Distlled: 0 %
Water Used: 8.450 G

Mash Water Adjustments

Calcium Chloride: 7.0 g
Lactic Acid: 4.0 ml @ 88.000 %

Sparge Water

Leftover Mash Water Used: Yes
Total Water Treated: 0.000 G
Percent RO / Distlled: 0 %
Water Used: 0.000 G

Sparge Water Adjustments

Notes

125f 10 mins
146f 30 mins
158f 30 mins
168f 10 mins

Boil 30 mins
Chill to 85f
Pitch lacto and hold at 85f for 24 hrs
Boil 30 mins
Cool to 70 and pitch yeast lavlin ec1118 and hold
When ferment slows add 0.5 lb per gallon of raspberry puree
Bottle after total of 2 weeks
Carb to 3.25 volumes

9/25/16 brewed, boiled 30 mins, cooled to 90f and pitched lacto.
at 24 hrs down to 3.4.  tasting clean and good.
9/26/16 boiled again for 30 mins
cooled to 70F and pitched yeast.
no scorching.  element very clean.
9/27/16 8am no kreusen.  very slow bubbling
noon 1/4″ kreusen and steady bubbling
9/29/16 still kreusened with slow steady bubbling
10/1/16 added 3lbs of raspberry puree
10/9/16 racked bw to gelatin keg.  had trouble with hop sack as filter so used metal filter and it worked really well.
FG 1.012 pH 3.41
clean.  really nice fruit character.  good level of acidity.  super hazy.  very promising.
10/14/16 bottled 3.75 gallons -> 30 bottles
72F, 3.25 volumes = 139g of table sugar
reyeasted with a half a pack of EC-1118

I entered this in the skirmish and it didn’t do very well but the complaint was the fruit was too prominent.  i’m curious to see how this does in the next competition b/c I feel like this beer turned out awesome and i’ve gotten more compliments from friends on this beer than any other this year.  here are the skirmish comments: