The Home Brew Site

Framboos is a Belgium beer made with Raspberries ?!?!

I’ve not tried any beer before that has been made with fruit so this is a bit of an experiment. I bought it at my local Home Brew shop, the guy suggested that you use a real candy sugar. Candy sugar is looks just like a bag of sweats of candy only clear, bit like a boiled sweat without all the flavours and colours. It’s a little strange when you are stirring the wort and it rattles like a bag of gravel.

It brewed out within about 5 days, mainly because the instructions say maintain the temp at 25C. I tried a little sip when it came out of the barrel, it was quite a refreshing beer. We shall see when it has primed and ready to drink.

[tags]homemade beer, beer review, homebrew beer [/tags]

This was my second attempt at making a Lager, well third but we don’t count the first as that was a bit of a disaster and tasted foul.

I spent quite a bit of time travelling around New Zealand, one of there lagers they have there (Steinlager) uses Green bullet hops. This beer acts as a reminder to the fun I had down there.

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I am getting into making different types of wine, made from real fruit as opposed to wine kits. Each fruit gives a very different flavour, from the very dry white wine made from rhubarb to the port like wine that is produced from blackcurrent.

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