Happily Ever After - Mixed-Fermentation Sour Beer

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Happily Ever After

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All Grain
5 Gallon(s)
6.5 Gallon(s)
60 min
75%
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Apricot Sour Ale with Chardonnay wine barrel flavor for my wife who puts up with my cra

Fermentables
% lb fermentable ppg   L   usage  
38% 4 Red Wheat - US 38
2°		 Mash
10% 1 Aromatic Malt - US 35
20°		 Mash
5% 0.5 Honey Malt - CA 37
25°		 Mash
48% 5 Pilsen - UK 36
1°		 Mash
10.5 lb

Hops
oz variety type usage time AA   IBU  
1 Callista Pellet Boil 60 minutes 4.0 14.2
1 oz IBUs calculated using the Tinseth formula

Hop Summary
oz variety type AA
1 Callista Pellet 4.0
1 oz  

Yeast
name attenuation  
Wild Brew Sour Pitch --- 2 and a half days 70%
Fermentis BE-134 80%
 

Other Stuff
amount unit name usage
6 lb Apricot puree Primary
2 oz Medium toast oak cubes Secondary
10 oz Chardonnay wine Secondary
 

Mash Steps
type heat temp °F time
Saccharification Rest Infusion 153 60 minutes
Batch sparge Infusion 170 5 minutes
 

Special Instructions
  1. Make wort with no hops, chill wort to 75, add sour yeast for 2 and days
  2. After souring, boil 1 hour, adding hops per schedule. Ferment 3 days with BE-134 yeast
  3. Add apricot puree after high krausen, ( 3 days), ferment 10 more days
  4. Soak oak cubes in chardonnay 1 week, add to secondary for 1 more week
  5. Bottle with 3.33 oz. corn sugar
  6. Pour two beers, and share with a loved one
  7. I mean drink both to your head
  8. Now pour another glass for that someone special
  9. And drink that glass to your head
  10. Call that someone special and tell them you ran out of beer

Recipe Facts

Happily Ever After
Mixed-Fermentation Sour Beer
5.00 Gallons Liters
6.50 Gallons Liters  @  60  min
1.058
1.014
6.8° SRM
75%
14.2 IBU (tinseth)
0.25
5.6% ABV
194 per 12oz
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