Dark as the Night Stout

Classification: fruit beer, stout, blueberry stout, extract

Source: Wayne Allen (wa@cadillac.cad.mcc.com) Issue #312, 11/29/89

This tastes like a normal stout, but after 4 or 5 sips, a warm glow begins to suffuse your throat and tummy; great for winter nights. Don't worry about pectin haze, you definitely won't see it!

Ingredients:

8 cans, blueberries (or 10 pints fresh, or 6# frozen)
1/2 pound, roasted barley
1/3 pound, black patent malt
1 pound, crystal malt
6.6 pounds, John Bull dark unhopped malt extract
1-1/2 ounces, Fuggles hops (boil)
1/2 cup, corn sugar (priming)
yeast

Procedure:

Crush and boil blueberries in 1-1/2 gallons of water for 10 minutes. Strain out berries. Add grains and steep. Add extract and hops and bring to boil. Strain into fermenter with enough cold water to make 5 gallons. Pitch yeast. Give this lots of time in the secondary fermenter or add champagne yeast after initial fermentation.