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Brewed my first extract batch in a while this morning. It was great only having a two hour brew day compared to the normal 6. I haven't brewed this before, but just threw it together on the fly. Any feedback or has anyone brewed anything similar?

50 minute boil
6# Liquid Wheat Extract (65% Wheat, 35% barley)
1# honey
1 oz Tettnang @ 45 min.
1 oz EKG @ 2 min.

3# Peach Puree directly poured into primary after 4 days. (I don't use a secondary with my brew bucket because I never do fruit beers and all beers that need aged do so in the keg, but I shouldn't have any issues doing this way)

Pitched with US-05.

Hoping to get a nice easy drinking beer with just enough peach flavor coming through. Will keg it up in two weeks or so and post my results.

Sounds nice and will ferment out clean with the S-05, just be careful when pouring the peach puree in so you don't introduce any O2. Sounds like it will almost end up as something close to a shandy.

For what it's worth, I've played with a number of fruits and found that certain ones come through very nicely, while others do not.

Fruit extract - I've used Oregon Raspberries, Cherries, and Blueberries. Raspberries tasted good in both an Oktoberfest as well as a light lager. Blueberries were unimpressed, as were cherries.

I've used LorAnn Super Strength flavors in wheats, stout, and one or two others.

In wheat, I learned that peach often doesn't work, but apricot works well. In fact, some non-scientific research I did showed me that many "peach" craft beers were in fact a combination of peach and apricot. Raspberry worked well. Strawberry was good also. Blueberry continued to disappoint, and cherry tasted mediciney. Black cherry may be worth trying.

Orange worked great in both wheat and a Blue Moon clone. Peanut butter works great in stout. I expect that chocolate will work in the stout also.

RickBeer wrote:For what it's worth, I've played with a number of fruits and found that certain ones come through very nicely, while others do not.

Fruit extract - I've used Oregon Raspberries, Cherries, and Blueberries. Raspberries tasted good in both an Oktoberfest as well as a light lager. Blueberries were unimpressed, as were cherries.

I've used LorAnn Super Strength flavors in wheats, stout, and one or two others.

In wheat, I learned that peach often doesn't work, but apricot works well. In fact, some non-scientific research I did showed me that many "peach" craft beers were in fact a combination of peach and apricot. Raspberry worked well. Strawberry was good also. Blueberry continued to disappoint, and cherry tasted mediciney. Black cherry may be worth trying.

Orange worked great in both wheat and a Blue Moon clone. Peanut butter works great in stout. I expect that chocolate will work in the stout also.

Thanks for the input. I may try apricots. I did read that as well a while back now that you mention it. It was a toss up between peaches and blackberries. They both sounded very tasty. I think I may stick with the peaches on this one, and then next do the same brew with the apricots that way I can see what comes through more? Something for me to consider I suppose. I did a chocolate blueberry stout last year and it was phenomenal, but I used 5 oz of blueberry extract so it really came through, if I ever brew it again I would have to cut back because it was very overpowering.

On another note, I have used powdered peanut butter (PB2) and chocolate in a stout and they both turned out fantastic. The oil really kills your head retention from the real peanut butter.

Right on the peanut butter. The LorAnn products are nice because they don't have that impact. In addition, you can make a Wheat beer, then add a drop of ANY flavor to the glass and pour it the beer. No need to commit 5 gallons to a specific fruit and then discover it's not great, or too strong, or too weak.

RickBeer wrote:Right on the peanut butter. The LorAnn products are nice because they don't have that impact. In addition, you can make a Wheat beer, then add a drop of ANY flavor to the glass and pour it the beer. No need to commit 5 gallons to a specific fruit and then discover it's not great, or too strong, or too weak.

That's a great idea! Thanks for that!