Cloudberries & Beer in US?

Salmonberry Wheat beer! 5.5%, Let me tell you this beer is awesome. Maybe somebody I can open a brewery here in Bethel, Alaska to sell to the world. But for now, I myself am enjoying this as we speak.

 

Cloudberries I've heard of, but that's a new one.

 

http://zesterdaily.com/cooking/cloudberries-a-scandinavian-treasure/

ISO: scandinavian treasure cloudberrie beer

 

If anyone ever wants some cloudberries let me know at the beginning of July. I'd be happy to trade for some of the finished product, especially a sour.

 

I don't know the best area, but we have quite a few around Fairbanks when the weather is right. They like a nice wet spring followed by a couple of hot sunny weeks at the end of June. That said, even in the most plentiful years a gallon is about the max I am able to get.

 

This is my first post, though I have been reading this site for a couple years and been in craft beer about as long.

This thread got my attention because I saw the title with cloudberries in it. Where I live in Canada, we can pick these native berries in the wild. Locally, they are called bakeapples. They are considered a delicacy as they can be hard to find. You either love them or hate them. They are very tangy and I have always enjoyed jam made from them.

Some people pick them and sell them for very high prices, not sure exactly what they are nowadays, but about $50 a gallon sounds about right.

I would be intrigued to have a beer made from those berries. On New Years day, I did have a 375 ml bottle of wine bought from the liquor store made from those berries and the water was melted ice berg water. It was pretty good, but I say bring on the beer!

 

I got to know, did you land the soleil?

 

That bottle had a seriously high demand, I don't even want to mention what someone traded for a bottle, and it included a 3l of beat!

 

Bakeapple anglicized from the French, "Baie qu'appelle..." meaning, "What is this berry called?" Internationally known as Cloudberry. It has distinct honey/apricot-like flavor.

 

Ikea sells a cloudberry jam that is fruit, sugar, citric acid and pectin. It's pretty damn good on a toasted bagel with a little cream cheese but since I'm not a brewer I have no idea if it's feasible to use it in a beer. Figured I'd throw it out there for everyone though.

 

Those pics are from the best cloudberry year I have seen in Fairbanks. 2009

 

Im actually totally down for this. but you'll need to wait like a year for the beer.
But if you're serious, PM and i'll send you beer in exchange for the berries (at the time of the trade). Then when the sour is done if it doesn't suck, i'll send that too.

 

It will be about the second week in July before I'll know if I can get enough to be worth it. We had nothing this past summer because of all the rain. I'll send you a message ( or message me) in early July to find out quantities. I'm wondering if it would be possible to preserve them with sugar before sending? It would be easier than sending fresh as they are so liquid and mold really fast. You could tell me exact quantities and I could even use a Brewers sugar. I wouldn't have to add anything but sugar.

 

I'd be so interested in this as the first batch I did turned out very well. Still got one bottle left too. As for adding the sugar I would not as cloudberries have natural preservatives in them and you can just jar them right from the bush and not worry about them going bad, at least that's what I read on the internet so it has to be true.