strawberry berliner anyone?

never made a Berliner, but I am making a Belgium Strong dark ale with strawberries. I used 2 quarts after boiling them.
Smells great, not bottled yet.

 

About a month in on a low abv. strawberry sour. Used 2#/gal and waiting for gravity to stabilize but tasting after a month and it's a complete fruit bomb. Fantastic red color hit immediately. Just quartered the strawberries and racked the beer on top. Read a lot of horror stories, including a couple from de garde, about strawberries lending a burnt plastic/bandaid characteristic and assumed it was from the seeds. Just went for it anyway and came out great. We'll see how great it ages though. Cheers!

 

I used #2.25/gal recently. I pulverized the strawberries, added the juice, bagged the strawberry mush, then added the bagged strawberries. They were allowed to age for 1 week. The beer was pink with a definitive, but not overbearing strawberry flavor. If I were to brew the beer again I would do it exactly the same way.

 

my beer is still fermenting with the mush in it.

 

Gained a few gravity points upon adding the juice, but I'm sure more sugar from the strawberries was extracted over time (I did not measure that part). I gave the berries a week and ended up with a FG consistent with what I would have expected if I had not added berries.

I added the fruit in strainer bags, yes. I would guess utilization would be better without the bags, but that clean-up would be tough.

 

I would go pretty heavy on the strawberries. I'd start with 1.5# / gal and have a ton in the freezer, just in case.

 

Recently had a strawberry Berliner from Tired Hands. It was good, but not my favorite beer from them. Haven't had any strawberry beers I've loved, but the better ones have used frozen berries.

 

I used fresh (not frozen) berries with the stems removed.

 

New Glarus strawberry rhubarb packed a big berry punch. One of their fruity fruity fruit beers rather than one of their sour fruit beers (note the emphasis on fruit).

I have both frozen strawberries and rhubarb and am thinking Berliner too. Can't decide to mix berries and barb or do separately. Also have frozen blueberries and raspberries.

 

I just did a strawberry-rhubarb berliner. I added 7lbs of fresh strawberries to about 5 gallons of beer and left it on the berliner for about 2 weeks. I plan on kegging it tonight. It's picked up a nice pink color and smells and taste like fresh strawberries.

 

That may be from the rhubarb more than the strawberry...

 

I have a petite strawberry saison in my keezer right now. I brewed the saison, kegged it, then put 50oz of crushed frozen strawberries into my stainless mesh dryhopper and that has been sitting in the keg for the last few weeks now. Really nice strawberry-forward flavor profile. If it stays on tap long enough I may swap out the 'old' berries for a few pounds of new ones to keep the intensity up.

 

Do you mean the pink color? Some rhubarb varieties, including the stuff I grew at my old house, are green, not red. Taste is the same (sour). If I do a strawberry rhubarb, any pink color will be coming from the strawberries.

 

It could be. One used rhubarb before and it was mostly tart with a slightly vegetal aroma. The aroma is reminiscent of the strawberry character I get from jester kind O&P. I'm not sure if you've had that or not. Prior to adding the strawberries I froze them for a few days and I used rhubarb juice. Not sure if that would make any difference.

 

My rhubarb had no color. I was expecting red or pink but it was mostly yellow, but after I added the strawberries the beer is pink.

 

My home grown variety has almost no red pigment, compared to the stuff in the groc store

 

Ah, my rhubarb Berliner was with the red type and got plenty of color. Nice berry-like flavor as well.