Cranberry Wheat

Classification: fruit beer, cranberry beer, all-grain, holiday beer, christmas ale

Source: Russ Brodeur (r-brodeur@ds.mc.ti.com), r.c.b. October 2, 1995

I have made a cranberry wheat for the holidays the past two seasons.
BIG cranberry aroma with this recipe.

I used Edme Ale yeast, but Wit or Lambic strains would lend more "character", I think.

Ingredients:

9# Schreier 2-row malt
9# dWC Wheat malt
~20 IBU's kettle hops (I used 1.35 oz Perle @ 7.5% alpha)
Edme ale yeast
12 pounds cranberries

Procedure:

*No* finishing hops (want to taste the cranberries) Mash at 124 F/30 min, 145-50 F/30 min, 158-60 F/30 min.

Added 12# of chopped cranberries after krauesen fell. **note, a cheesecloth bag with some sort of weighting would be advisable to **keep the berry pieces from floating up & out of the liquid.

Fermented another 2 wks, then secondaried 'til clear & bottled.

Specifics:

OG: 1056 (before cranberries)
FG: 1.015