The demand for cherry beer comes just at the right time.
I dare say that I already had a lot of experience with cherries Wyeast yeast. Almost good and often less successful, by trial and error. With Wyeast Lambic I will not do!
Too many to enumerate the various efforts and in detail.
First something about the amount of cherries: The minimum is for normal years 4kg/10L NORMAL! 5kg/10L is better, especially this year because of the sugar (Limburg and Liège) is faintly cherries.
I measured with a refractometer cherries and that was last week when fully ripe cherry Gorsemse Morelle and around 1048 to 1050.
Other years between 1058 and even 1064.
So this year is the minimum 5kg/10L, believe me.
Now, following an article I'm ready for our notebook Time Guild: My cherries are in the freezer since last week and I'm brewing until October following procedure. The guild of beer I tasted Vliermaalroot is so good that I'm so brew.
Best Kriek
A recipe for Demerdal Guild (Elder Root x)
A while ago I was invited by a guild where we Demerdal Sunday morning spent in the brewing sheet. From them I also have several beers and a cherry beer, raspberry taste. Piece by piece proved that the samples you see them over there a lot of experience on fruit beers.
The best beer was undoubtedly one Morelle cherry beer from their guild. The less I liked their raspberry beer.
There was also a Kriek Lambic (acid) in beer, a beer with spontaneous fermentation is put in motion. This beer, Bokrijk Morelle said, was in itself excellent in quality and taste, it was unfortunately a little too early bottling (bottle that had a bit of gushing).
Still, we gave preference to the softer Guild Morelle, that beer had a wonderful aroma, velvety and not too sweet. You could see the next big delicious cherry beer set of known good brands. It goes without saying that I wanted them to know about.
Very important fact is that they are so only briefly ½ kg per liter of wort using cherry and cherries along with them the wort from the beginning to ferment as follows:
The cherries, frozen or slightly thawed, go along with the still hot wort (50 .. 60 ° C) in the barrel. Once everything is 20 ° C, the yeast there. So wort but some cool!
All in a barrel, increased by airlock. 3 to 6 months have lower ones. With everything in it!
The cherry beer that year (the best so) is a basic style of beer brewed with Pils, Pale and 10% wheat malt. Again fairly hopped with Hallertau Mittelfrühe, 25-30 EBU. The majority was Morellenkrieken Gorsemse with cherry.
A recipe look as follows:
For 100L wort:
Pils Malt 17 kg, 3.25 kg Pale Malt, 2.25 kg Wheat Malt
Mash: mash curve 52 ° C 10 ', 62 ° C 35', 72 ° C 30 'to 78 ° C and rinse.
Hops: Hallertau Mittelfrühe (4 to 5% alpha acid) 225 g after 5 'boil and add 50 g of 10' before the end. Cooking time 70.
Start SG 1051. Yeast: propagation Witkap Stimolo (Slagmuylder). K97 a granular yeast or yeast wheat beer grain should also succeed. I think why not do it with other yeast: a liquid yeast wheat beer Hoegaarden or cultivation of container, or the grain yeast bricoleurs a Brewferm Blanche.
What they did is another year of beer, 60% wheat malt and 40% pilsner malt. % Wheat malt can filter as many problems when rinsing the trot. Not doing so, the above formula gives way better beer.
A herd of ± SG 1051, mash short time.
Their barrels are in a porch, so temperature control is not there. Usually brew their cherry in November / December and bottling them by April.
During the bottling some sweetening. example. Depending on the cherry sorbitol 1kg/30L (first test). Sorbitol is sorbietsuiker and is not digestible. Personally I prefer maltodextrin, which are long chains of sugar, malt extract in the form. In Brouwland known as Brewbody: No.. 055.051.7 5.55 / kg.
Always test a small amount and the dose to try, because too sweet is not good.
Kriek to deposit 50% or 50 kg of cherry to 100 L.
Sometimes they do with foam stabilizer. But this was not added to their beer, I'm not doing that.
Since the long bearing clears everything nice. Longer than 3 months has more color and spice flavor, but also something less solid foam.
One week before we shift to bottle and let it stand one week, we add 7.5 g / L and bottling sugar or maltodextrin sorbietsuiker to taste.
I can really recommend this beer, believe me, it was so good in taste, and that my wife also. You could put next to the champions, so it was nice and good!
Thanks to Stephen Huybrechts Vliermaalroot / Kortessem.
Now:
What you especially should not do:
- The cherries cooking: gelatin provides training and loss of aroma
- The cherries to a pulp milling or stamping: will knit a pulp that you almost can not separate from the beer.
- Pitted.
You will see that as the fermentation progresses, are what separate the seeds from the cherries. It's not a tragedy if it has not happened yet.
Of infection one must not be afraid of this method, the freezing and then thawing in the hot wort is almost no chance of getting wild yeasts. The cherries, I rinsed in water before freezing.