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Raspberry Sour Berliner Weisse

Kettle soured Berliner Weisse with a generous infusion of fresh raspberries

Ingredients:
2 x Black Rock Unhopped Wheat 1.7kg
2 probiotic capsules (Lactobacillus Plantarum)
15g Centennial hop
10 ml Lactic acid
35g Freeze Dried Raspberry Powder
35g Freeze Dried Whole Raspberries
11.5g Fermentis Yeast: SafAle™ US-05

Recipe:

1/ Prepare probiotic culture by dissolving 100g of Wheat wort concentrate in 500 mL of quality brewing water in a 1 L flask. Heat in microwave until boiling. Cover with a tinfoil cap and allow to cool to 40 °C +/- 5 °C. Add 2 probiotic capsules. Hold at 40 °C +/- 5 °C for 72 hours to culture.

2/ Dissolve 3.3 kgs of unhopped wheat wort concentrate in 23 L of quality brewing water and bring to boil.

3/ Adjust pH with 10 ml of lactic acid to achieve a pH of 4.4 +/- 0.1

4/ Cool to 40 °C +/- 5 °C. Sparge wort with C02 for 5 mins to create an anaerobic environment

5/ Inoculate probiotic culture into wort and maintain temperature at 40 °C +/- 5 °C until pH drops to 3.2-3.4. Approximately 3-4 days.

6/ Re-boil soured wort for 15 mins

7/ Whirlpool 15g of Centennial hops and 35g FD Raspberry and immersion chill brew to 20 °C.

8/ Clean & sanitise fermenter and associated equipment. Fill fermenter, pitch yeast at 20 +/- 3 °C.

9/ Day 6 add FD whole raspberries to fermenter.

10/ Once all signs of fermentation have ceased for at least 24 hours (check this with hydrometer), then crash cool fermenter to 1-3 °C for 48-72 hours (if possible) and keg or bottle using standard practices.

Specification:
Alcohol: 3.7% ABV
Bitterness: 8 IBU
Colour: 8 SRM

Raspberry Sour Berliner Weisse

Unhopped Concentrated Wort

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