Home brewing thread anyone?

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Wife had one of the brews the other day and really enjoyed it. I think I might tap into the last bottle tonight. I ordered some ingredients for a slightly different wheat beer with cranberries. Pilsner and wheat malt with some Citra hops and probably the rest of the Willamette I had from the peach wheat. Hopefully neutral US-05 yeast. My goal is a test run and then a larger batch for Thanksgiving. One of my favorite local breweries does a Cranberry Wheat so I am trying to get close to it. Maybe even some orange peel in the boil for depth.

Huge goal of mine is to eventually be able to use my homegrown fruit for these beers. Considering they are small batches, I am confident I could do a raspberry wheat (or any raspberry beer) next summer with my own Heritage berries which would be really cool. Still on the hunt for that fool proof recipe but I think I got close with the peach.

Anybody brew anything recently?
Real fruit is hard. It can be done. I went with flavor extracts. Why? It was simple. I could make a wheat batch and then flavor half of it. I don’t like fruit beers. I need a shirt that says “Don’t fruit my beer!” My wife in the other hand only drinks fruited beers.
 
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Real fruit is hard. It can be done. I went with flavor extracts. Why? It was simple. I could make a wheat batch and then flavor half of it. I don’t like fruit beers. I need a shirt that says “Don’t fruit my beer!” My wife in the other hand only drinks fruited beers.
Ha, I like that and I have heard that term before on some brew sites. I love fruited wheat beers. Not a big fan of sours though. A lot of my local breweries use real fruit in their wheat beers and I've had more success than failure with real fruit too. Some of my favorite local beers use flavor extracts, but mainly for things like blueberry and watermelon to get that familiar flavor that the real deal doesn't often give especially in beer. I did an extract brew from a kit and added some pureed raspberries to the secondary and it was my favorite brew I ever made. It tasted just like the Abita raspberry lager which is one of my favorites. Definitely trying to chase that high again all grain BIAB.
 
Absolutely, my wife makes extracts all the time and they are great. In fairness, pasteurizing and tossing a batch into the secondary is pretty easy too. 😁
 
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