Information on the Brewing of Strawberry Beer
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by: PatrickAnthony
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If you want to try a beer that is a little bit different then have you ever considered trying one that is flavored with strawberries. Strawberry beer is not as many would think the fermented juice of strawberries but the juice is in fact added to a normal beer. Many people that the sweet flavors of the strawberries of the complemented by the bitterness of the beer to which it has been added.
Today this flavored beer is now readily available and being made in breweries across the globe and can be purchased in good quality beer outlets or online. However, if you do make your own beer have you ever considered making it for yourself. There are plenty of sites online that offer advice and recipes so that you can make strawberry beer for yourself.
But even before you can produce your own beer you need to make sure that you have the right equipment. What you will need is a large stainless steel pot, a carboy (large glass bottle), plastic tubing, funnel and large food grade plastic bucket. Plus a wooden spoon and thermometer and other pieces of brewing equipment such as a siphon rake and a valve for the carboy. Everything you should be able to purchase from a home brewing specialist either online or close to where you live.
After you have this equipment together you now need to get the ingredients together to make your strawberry beer with. For this you need strawberries, amber hopped syrup, dry light malt, crushed crystal malt, leaf hops, and pectin enzyme and ale yeast starter.
Now that you have all these items you can move on to actually beginning to brew your own beer. Below are the steps you will need to follow in order to make one that is flavored with strawberries.
Step 1 - Make the yeast starter by boiling a cup of dry malt extract in 1 quart of water then allow it to cool until it reaches a temperature of 90 degrees Fahrenheit. When it reaches this temperature add to it ale yeast and stir it. Now let this stand for 2 hours.
Step 2 - Whist the above is standing into a gallon of water you need to steep the crystal malt before rinsing it thoroughly and then adding it to 1 to 1.5 gallons of preboiled water in which is also the hops and dry malt which you heat up and once boiling allow it to continue to boil for one hour.
Step 3 - After the mixture has been allowed to boil for an hour you need to turn the heat down and mix the strawberries into them, which should have been washed, stemmed and pureed first. Mix these ingredients together well and keep them on a low heat for the next 15 to 20 minutes, then after this time remove the hops so that only the wort mixture is left and allow this cool.
Step 4 - As soon as the mixture (wort) has cooled down enough put it into the carboy and to it add the yeast starter. You can at this stage add the pectin enzyme or leave it until the following day. Then give it time to ferment correctly before then transferring to the plastic bucket. The strawberry beer should be left in the plastic bucket (racked) for between 3 and 4 days before you eventually then put it into bottles.
About the Author
Floris fruit beer is one of the more unusual tasting beers available to buy online however is still very popular amongst beer drinkers. One type of this is strawberry beer which is very sweet and refreshing on a hot day.
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