Comments on: Blackberry wit beer works

By: Boak and Bailey’s Beer Blog » Blog Archive » Recipe and instructions for Belgian Witbier

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:25:05 +0000

[...] we wrote about our blackberry beer a week or so back, we mentioned that we made it using a witbier base. We thought we’d also [...]

By: Nicolino

Nicolino — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:10:32 +0000

Oh god… I see those 35ºC days coming down here…

By: Boak

Boak — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:08:32 +0000

Ah yes. The heat. I remember that…

This weeked was The Last Nice Weekend of the Summer. We took advantage of it to take the photo above. Next week it’s 9% dark Belgian beers all the way.

By: Nicolino

Nicolino — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:12:31 +0000

Not that fond of fruit beers myself… but 3.7-4% wheat sounds great for the heat,

By: Zythophile

Zythophile — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:21:43 +0000

What would be jolly interesting is to find a hop with blackberry notes (?Bramling Cross?) and make a beer with that and blackberry concentrate, to see how it worked … blackberry porter/stout would work well too, as shown, indeed, by Burton Bridge bramble stout …

By: leigh

leigh — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:20:28 +0000

interesing – I’ve got ideas for fruit beers in my homebrew schedule for 09 – and i like your method of making concentrate. I agree regarding fruit profile though – i also prefer it underlying.

By: Boak

Boak — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:21:24 +0000

I think it depends on how you like your fruit beer. We definitely like it to be beer first and fruit second…

By: Thom

Thom — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:51:42 +0000

There has been much talk about blackberries in the home brew community here in Ireland because the buggers are everywhere. I have never brewed anything except straight up ale and don’t even know here to begin with respect to fruit beer, or spiced beer for that matter, though your preparation of a concentrate seems handy. Most I know add the whole fruit at some stage and end up with very little fruit character.