Cherry Weiss et cetera

Classification: fruit beer, cherry wheat, wheat beer, extract

Source: Jason Affourtit (affouj@rpi.edu), Homebrew Digest #1895, November 28, 1995

Just a brief note, thanks to all for advice about the cherry vanilla weiss beer, it came out great!
After 7 days conditioning - WOW!

Great stuff, i was very pleased, great pink color also!

Ingredients:

3.3lbs wheat liquid extract (i used M & F)
3 lbs light dme (i used wheat)
1 oz. 5% cascade hops
3 cans good quality cherry juice concentrate (unfortunately couldn't get my hands on cherries fresh or froz)
american ale yeast (didn't go with the weiss yeast to reduce those normally desired esters of banana and clove - wanted to preserve the cherry/vanilla aroma the best i could)

Procedure:

3 gal. boil volume.

Very rapid fermentation for 4 days, slowed _finally_ and racked to secondary after 8 days, left it 6 more days in carboy, great clarity! once in secondary i added 2tbs. pure vanilla extract for flavor and mostly aroma, and i tbs. cherry essence for aroma (taste was grrrreat, didn't need any more flavor, wanted better aroma).

At bottling added 8oz malto-dextrin for better head and mouth feel - was of course very dry...and priming sugar.

Specifics:

OG: 1.054 (could be off a bit)