Blackberries in yesterday! turned it a nice maroon color! one week then bottling! getting excited

my goal was once a month, but I got nice and poor all of a sudden so I went two or three months without brewing, almost out of beer now and won't have much from this batch either (splitting it with friends) oh well!

You don't need one no, but to get the bitterness I wanted without a ton of hop flavor the 60 minute boil was what I wanted, around 15 ibus to balance out some of the sweetness but I still want it sweeter

We have some overflow! Brewed Saturday fastest and most aggressive fermentation I have had yet!

came in a little lighter than planned at about 1.050 which should be fine, leaning on lower ABV than higher for this one, don't want too much alcohol taste

HOME BREW RECIPE: Title: Persephone's Tears Brew Method: Extract Style Name: Fruit Beer Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 5.5 gallons (fermentor volume) Boil Size: 3 gallons Boil Gravity: 1.101 Efficiency: 35% (steeping grains only) STATS: Original Gravity: 1.055 Final Gravity: 1.013 ABV (standard): 5.5...

I did a hop burst pale ale like that and it worked perfectly! No need to boil it for the full hour if you don't have to

Bottling Single Obol Russian Imperial Stout this weekend and brewing Persephone's Tears blackberry wheat next weekend!

yeah I know, I looked for the blackberries everywhere and couldn't find them. The only thing I could find was an 8 pack of 15oz cans for $35. No where can I find single cans of it! Oh well! their can of cherries thats the same size as this one is over $40 so I will take what I can get lol.

I haven't done mine yet, probably in the next week or two. I am purchasing the blackberry puree here: http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/oregon-blackberry-puree.html It is 3.1 pounds of puree so 22 bucks isn't too bad this will boost the beer almost half a % ABV if it all ferments out properly. Sinc...

decided to go with blackberry puree and flavoring to taste, gonna toss the puree into a secondary fermenter for a week or two and then use the flavoring to taste at bottling

i'm lame and use a $3 candy and deep fry thermometer from walmart for steeping and chilling, and I have a stick on thermometer for my fermenter that's accurate to 2 degrees which is good enough for me! Call me cheap!

This is a blackberry extract, Brewers best is the brand and it has good reviews, people don't recommend using the whole bottle though it seems to lend a chemical taste so I figure the actual fruit and part of a bottle of the extract to taste, I will watch out though thanks

Thinking of doing both BlackBerry puree in secondary for a week or so and then adding flavoring to taste when bottling to get the best of both worlds! Got a solid wheat beer base at about 15 ibu for the recipe and we should be all set!

Thanks guys, loving this one, at least as much as my Pale Ale, it keeps getting better with age too, at about 6 weeks since bottling and its starting to blend really well!