Raspberry Ale

Classification: fruit beer, raspberry ale, extract

Source: Michael Yandrasits (michael@ frank.polymer.uakron.edu) Issue #857, 4/3/92

This beer has a very nice mild raspberry flavor, aroma, and color but the beer character is not lost either.

Ingredients:

2 cans, Alexanders pale malt extract
2 pounds, rice extract syrup
1 ounce, Cascades hops
8 pounds, frozen raspberries
Edme ale yeast

Procedure:

I used about 8 lbs (11 12oz pkgs) and it turned out wonderfully, not at all overly raspberry-like. I blended them with just enough water to make a slurry and added it to the cooled wort (seeds, skins and all). I also added 2 campden tablets to ward off infection. It seems to have worked. No pectin haze at all. I racked into a secondary and left most of the raspberry sludge behind.