Porterhouse Strawberry Beer

Carrollj

Hi guys, is the strawberry beer in the porterhouse classified as a mead or beer? I'd like to make a clone of this and just need some advice on heading in the right direction...

BeerNut

Früli is a wheat beer. If trying to replicate it I'd say make a Belgian wit of about 1.048 then sanitise and freeze a kilo or so of strawberries and bung them in to secondary.

I would say Früli itself is backsweetened in some way: that they've stopped the fermentation before adding the fruit, otherwise the yeast would chomp through it.

oblivious

strawberries are notoriously difficult to brew with, but around 500g/4.5 liters would be a good staring point

Rasberrys are easly to work with

Carrollj

Great stuff guys thanks. Would flash freezing the batch stop the yeast from doing it's thing.. before adding the strawberries

oblivious

Carrollj wrote: »

Great stuff guys thanks. Would flash freezing the batch stop the yeast from doing it's thing.. before adding the strawberries

I would let it ferment out for two reasons 1) to avoid bottle bombs if the yeast remains active 2) the sugars from the fruit could be a handy point for an infection to take off

BeerNut

Dunno. You could use campden tablets or something like that. If it were me I'd just add the strawberries without trying to stop the fermentation and see how that goes before trying anything fancier.

Carrollj

That might not be a bad idea, i'd imagine that way you'd get of a milder taste of strawberries as opposed to the porterhouse version but a start none the less

BeerNut

Or you could always just buy Früli. Though it looks to be dearer than a pint of it in the Porterhouse. Wonder what happened to the 500ml bottles?

Carrollj

I could! but that's no fun! once my stout is finished fermenting i'll give it a go !