Man it's crazy to see how far you've come in your brewing process.

Just wanted to mention my appreciation that you have the tasting portion in all your videos. That way I don't have to search for the separate tasting video. Cheers.

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I really enjoy making them, and a lot of effort goes into the process. I'm glad you enjoy it too!

@kdillon5710

4 жыл бұрын

I absolutely echo this sentiment. One stop shop is very much appreciated!!

@Jango1989

3 жыл бұрын

+1 for grain to glass videos!

@James-vf5gs

3 жыл бұрын

+2 for g2g. I've been watching all the old vids to catch up. You've really improved with presentation etc. I don't know your name though. Morgan.

Want to brew a wild yeast cherry farmhouse ale and, lo and behold, my research led me to you brewing a fruit beer. Excellent! Thank you, Steve.

I'll be living vicariously through your channel and a few others over the 6 months my house is being built and my brewing stuff is in storage.

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

Hope the build goes well! I definitely feel your pain with months-long dry spells. Plenty of time to think about what you want to work on next and maybe some upgrades? Cheers!

So glad you did this, i loved the Sam Adams blackberry wheat but they cancelled it years ago. Definitely going to have to try this sometime!

Thank you for the video. I have been wanting to make a fruit beer for quite some time. I will follow your method for my first batch.

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers and I hope it goes well for you! Just don't expect it to be super sweet. Regardless this is certainly an easy and fun one, best of luck, and thanks for the comment!

It looks great! Love the color. Not what you would expect from a typical wheat, but this isn’t typical! Looks exactly how I would expect a blueberry wheat to look. You did awesome, I would love to try some. Hello from a fellow engineer/home brewer!

Sounds like a great beer! Cheers!

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Really had a lot of fun making this one. Keeps getting better!

I love wheat based fruit sours (I realise this wasn't entirely intentionally sour). I have one souring at the moment. If you want to get that stereotypical sweetness that a lot of commercial fruit beers have, adding a shot of simple syrup to your glass, stirring with a small amount of beer then topping up the glass, worked really well for me. Though honestly, once you get used to dry fruit beers, they're much nicer than their commercial counterparts in my opinion.

I brewed this recipe but opted for 3lbs frozen blueberries, puréed with a food processor. Before adding blueberries I had 1.012sg. After adding purée It was 1.014sg. To calculate ABV I added 0.002 (1.014-1.012) to my OG (1.058) for OG*=1.060; at FG=1.008 it’s 7.1%ABV. Remember to adjust SG measurements for temperature, it has a significant impact.

Just watching this. Look at where you were at, and where you are now! Funny sh@t!🤣🤣

@TheApartmentBrewer

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! Yeah this channel sure took a turn for the better around 2021!

just finished a blueberry "belgian - cream ale", I used whole fruit that I cleaned and froze while the beer was fermenting, then racked it over the mostly thawed berries. Primary Ferm was open fermentation in my garage at about 85-90, and then the fruit fermentation was done at 70ish for a week. Turned out delicate purple/blue, super dry, highly carbonated, tart (i did use 6.33 lbs for a 5 gal batch), and the berry like esters from the hot ferment really accentuate the blueberry aroma and flavor. Two things I've found with fruit beer is to keep your color low (like 2-3 srm, almost white) on the wort so that the end color stays true to the fruit, and I keep the beer on the fruit/skins for about a week to extract flavor and color. yeast was Belle-Saison. Without a refractometer, its really hard to tell what the final abv was, but based on avg. sugar in blueberries, should end up close to 5%

Great video as always! Personally love a tart wheat with fruit. The beer didn't look ugly to me at all either haha. Cheers man!

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! I was kinda hoping for the bright purple/red color but its not so bad I guess. Cheers!

I've done a few fruit wheat beers, my favorite being a raspberry wheat. Same technique you used but with different fruit, and it turned the beer a nice red color; maybe something to consider for next summer. Cheers!

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

It is remarkably easy to make these and it would be a lot of fun to experiment with different kinds of fruits for sure. Cheers! Would definitely be great to get a unique color out of it.

Weinhard made an awesome blueberry. Actually tasted the blueberries!

New subscriber love the vids, hey you ever think about getting a Robobrew? I have one and love it!!! Brew right in my kitchen. Keep the vids coming 👍🏻👍🏻

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

I briefly considered it but I really do like to be involved in my beer as much as possible. Yes, its extra work but I really enjoy the work. Cheers!

There’s blueberries everywhere!

I'm drinking Minnesota's Forest Lake Blueberry Ale and I love it. They are naturally carbonating this blueberry ale. It's not sweet at all and that's how it should be.

Really enjoyed the video as ever and really interesting critique on the results. Keep up the good work! What’s up next after the streak of summer beers?

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you are enjoying the videos. I actually just brewed a Belgian style Tripel the other day, but it had a lower OG than I was going for so I'm not 100% sure if I can still call it a Tripel. Gonna see if I can attenuate the hell out of it. After that I'm going to try playing with Kviek yeast in a brew with either Eukanot or Nelson Sauvin, maybe both. Cheers!

@CJMSoulier

4 жыл бұрын

TheApartmentBrewer nice! Looking forward to the video of the dubb-and-a-half-el!

Hope someday u get a job as a brew master for a brewery. U really know your stuff

@TheApartmentBrewer

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the kind words but I have a long way to go!

Great vid.....was wondering your thoughts on skipping the puree and secondary and just throwing some blueberry flavor in the keg? I think this would produce a better color and maybe less tartness?

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

So I've definitely seen a lot of different techniques to making fruit beers, but I just wanted to work with pure fruit this time. I think sometimes (just my opinion), depending on where you get it from, flavorings and extracts can have a bit of an offputting flavor to them that I wanted to avoid. Definitely would not want to add puree to the keg though.

Would some crystal malt maybe help with some sweetness? Like a 60L? Or higher?

Nice brew...... maybe add a vanilla bean or lactose to give a little sweeter note Cheers Steve

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jesse, thats actually a fantastic idea that never even crossed my mind...I totally should have done that. Next time I'm going to try that out for a little bit of residual sweetness.

keep it 💯, glad you stayed away from artificial fruit.

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely gives the best flavor in my opinion. Cheers!

Any thoughts on using potassium sorbate to stop the re-fermenting??

When you racked onto the purée, did you transfer the yeast as well? I’m racking a wheat ale onto guava purée this week and I’m wondering if I transfer the yeast as well. This is my first time doing a any sort of secondary fermentation

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

I think there was enough yeast in suspension that it had no issues getting that second fermentation started. I wouldn't worry about having enough yeast to do it as long as it's not too late in the fermentation.

I have been all grain brewing for 5 years roughly and have gone to brew in bag just to change things up the last couple years. Have you ever considered a jalapeno beer? Is something I've wanted to do for a while just haven't done it. I didn't think it would be appealing until I actually had one and I thought damn this is pretty good. Anyway I've also changed to fermenting in my keg and transferring keg to keg. Which is a pretty dope way to do things.

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking I may eventually try a chili stout or porter. I've definitely had some that I enjoyed. That's interesting that you're running an all-keg system for fermentation, I've heard good things. I'm gonna probably stick with standard carboys and buckets for a while, but who knows what the future holds!

@frankcarreno9739

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheApartmentBrewer I got my keg and always looked to simplifying my process this year I made the adjustment. Well worth it imo

How much water did you use for your strike water? I know you said the pre-boil volume is 8 gallons but obviously grains trap some water. Did you use closer to 9-9.5 gallons?

A strawberry German wheat beer that has a bit of banana flavor sounds good.

Did you have any problems with the puree staining the fermenter?

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

Nope, I remember the color cleaned out just fine.

At the beggining of the video, you were drinking a stout or something dark. By the minute 9:30, during boiling, you had a golden something in the background. Jaja. How did you finish that day?

If you don't have a Thermapen, it's time to get one.

Obviously you do a biab.....how much water did you start with.....what was your final batch volume? Cheers!

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

Usually I'll start with around 8-9 gallons of strike water, but that number is going to change a bit depending on what your equipment efficiency is, boil off rates, length of boil etc. I usually aim to get around 5.5-6 gals at the end of fermentation, so I always have a full keg.

Have you ever use Five Star 5.2 ph Stabilizer before

Where did you buy the blueberries? Price? Link? Trying to brew something with puree

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

Its called vintners harvest, its around 20 bucks a can on Amazon. There are a variety of fruits they have purees for

I guess you have heard this alot but I go for it anyway: I didn't know that Drew Stafford was a homebrewer.

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

Haha nope you're the first

You beard really suits you. You should keep it

Think this would work ok without any fruit?

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

Sure, you'd just have a basic American wheat beer, but it would still be nice!

@nicolaspierredion

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheApartmentBrewer great, gonna try it this week.

You can use 1 lb of lactose to tame the tartness.

@TheApartmentBrewer

4 жыл бұрын

That may be the approach next time I make a fruit beer!

Am I allowed to say that if macgyver brewed beer this is how he would do it