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Date: 06 Oct 2006 06:52:53
From: John Krehbiel
Subject: Suggestions for blueberries please?
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I bought a large quantity of fresh blueberries some time back,
expecting to make a blueberry wheat. When I searched the newsgroup for
recipes, I found comments to the effect that blueberry wheat was
boring, so I'm looking for something else.
I think Denny mentioned a chocolate blueberry porter. Could you post a
recipe?
Any other suggestions would also be appreciated. I don't have a big
refirgerator, and the space in the freezer could be used for something
else.
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Date: 06 Oct 2006 09:10:10
From: Denny Conn
Subject: Re: Suggestions for blueberries please?
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John Krehbiel wrote:
> I think Denny mentioned a chocolate blueberry porter. Could you post a
> recipe?
Actuallyt, it was just a bluebery porter...no choclate. I made a porter
that was kinda on the sweet side with a fair amount of chocolate malt,
and added 5 lb. of frozen, then thawed, bluberries to the secondary.
Dead easy.....it was tasty, but the blueberries were very subtle. By
the time the beer was a month old or so, you wouldn't realize it had
blueberries in it unless you were told.
------------ >Denny
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Life begins at 60...1.060, that is.
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Date: 06 Oct 2006 14:31:39
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: Suggestions for blueberries please?
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On 6 2006 06:52:53 -0700, <j_krehbiel@hotmail.com > wrote:
> I bought a large quantity of fresh blueberries some time back,
> expecting to make a blueberry wheat. When I searched the newsgroup for
> recipes, I found comments to the effect that blueberry wheat was
> boring, so I'm looking for something else.
Blueberry is a fairly subtle flavor, so anything you use it in is
probably not going to knock your socks off. However, the blueberry
wheat beers I've made have turned out nice. I wouldn't call them boring,
although I prefer a raspberry wheat.
> I think Denny mentioned a chocolate blueberry porter. Could you post a
> recipe?
IMO, anything with too strong of a flavor is probably going to hide the
blueberry. I think something like a chocolate porter with blueberries
in it would probably not show much blueberry character, if any.
> Any other suggestions would also be appreciated. I don't have a big
> refirgerator, and the space in the freezer could be used for something
> else.
I've used blueberries in meads more often than in beers, if you're into
that.
John.
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Date: 06 Oct 2006 14:22:25
From: Joel
Subject: Re: Suggestions for blueberries please?
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John Krehbiel <j_krehbiel@hotmail.com > wrote:
>I bought a large quantity of fresh blueberries some time back,
>expecting to make a blueberry wheat. When I searched the newsgroup for
>recipes, I found comments to the effect that blueberry wheat was
>boring, so I'm looking for something else.
...
>Any other suggestions would also be appreciated. I don't have a big
>refirgerator, and the space in the freezer could be used for something
>else.
The best blueberry ale I've had was what I would guess
was a blonde ale with blueberry, brewed by the Boston Beer
Works brewpub.
--
Joel Plutchak
"Things just fall apart." - Now They'll Sleep (Belly)
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Date: 08 Oct 2006 06:36:38
From: Adam Preble
Subject: Re: Suggestions for blueberries please?
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John Krehbiel wrote:
> I bought a large quantity of fresh blueberries some time back,
> expecting to make a blueberry wheat. When I searched the newsgroup for
> recipes, I found comments to the effect that blueberry wheat was
> boring, so I'm looking for something else.
I don't know about blueberry, but my general experience with fruit is
that you'll have to add some sweetening if you want it to shine. Either
mash high or add Splenda. Basically let the blueberries go with it in
the secondary for awhile and then start sipping.
I ended up formulating my peach beer by drawing a 1/2 cup sample and
adding minute, yet measurable quantities of things until I got the
flavor I wanted. I then extrapolated to the batch and mixed it all up.
Warning: This comes from somebody whose attitude towards fruit beer is
"fruity notes aren't worth the effort; go for the symphony."
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