Festival Raspberry Ale
6 lbs Pilsner malt or domestic 2-row pale malt
2 lbs Vienna
1 lbs Wheat Malt
4 ounces Special B
2 ounces British Crystal 70-80L
4.9 AAU of a mild, clean hop for 60 minutes. My batch had a blend of Liberty and Saphir.
Wyeast 1056 or White Labs 001
1 ounce of McCormick Natural Raspberry extract added to secondary w/the beer racked on top.
OG: 1.048, FG: 1.012, IBU: 22, SRM: 10, ABV: 4.6%
I added the Special B and British Crystal (this crystal was Thomas Fawcett & Sons Dark Crystal #1 which has quite a bit ot red in it) to try to get the beer a little red so that it would look like a raspberry ale. The one ounce of extract gives the beer a pleasant, aromatic raspberry character with a noticeable fruit flavor and aroma but not overpowering. The balance is very good. Also, this extract does not taste like the stuff you get at the LHBS... it's much better than that in flavor and aroma. This is the stuff that people might use to make raspberry brownies, etc. This stuff happens to work well in darker beers too so if anyone is looking for a way to fruit up a stout or porter, here you go. Be warned: This extract can run between $6 and $8 an ounce but you should only need one ounce and most grocery stores I go into will carry it.
Edited by KenLenard, 11 September 2012 - 06:11 PM.