OG: 1030 FG: 1012 ABV: 4.5%
zest 4 blood oranges - keep 1 tablespoon zest, then cut and remove meat of orange avoiding as much white pith and segments as possible. Put them in one cup of water and bring them to a boil, then immediately remove from heat (sterilization process). Put zest and orange meat in hop sock with .5 galaxy, .5 mosaic, .5 simcoe - and add to the fermenter pail to dry hop and flavor the beer.
The 2020 version of my Belgian forest fruits beer. This year, using approximately 7 pounds of wild-picked berries, frozen and added in secondary. Switching from Rochefort to Westy yeast to attempt to get a bit more Belgian-y character in the beer. Produced 5.75 gallons @ 1.068. Final (corrected refractometer) gravity: 1.012 (~7.7% abv). Bottled with ~110 g sucrose.
Light easy drinking fruit beer with the irresistible flavor of raspberries.
Les Tres Pauvre Freres de l'Abbaye Foret Aile de Corbeau vous fournissent maigre nourriture avec leur biere aux fruits des bois, connue dans le monde entier comme Bouchon Rouge. Produced 5.5 gallons @ 1.064. Fermented for 4 weeks, then racked to glass carboy and added forest fruit mixture in a nylon bag to age for several weeks at 60-65F before bottling. Final (corrected refractometer) gravity: 1.010 (7.3% abv). Bottled with 100 g sucrose.