Strawberry Blonde - brewday

The Brew

On a recent vacation to Florida, we visited quite a few Tampa area breweries. Many of those breweries had some great flavor additions to their beers. Cage Brewing of St. Petersberg specifically had a couple of great ones. They had a Peanut Butter Fudge Brownie stout that was amazing as well as a Strawberry Wheat that had the most intense strawberry flavor I've had in a beer. That was the inspiration for this brew. This will likely be the first of many as I experiment with different amounts and type of strawberry flavor.

The Recipe

Grain/Sugars:

7.75 lbs 2 Row (84.4%)

11 oz Wheat Malt (7.5%)

8 oz Crystal 10 (5.4%)

4 oz CaraPils (2.7%)

Hops:

0.30 oz              Galena – Boil 55 min
0.25 oz              Cascade – Boil 25 min
0.25 oz              Cascade – Boil 10 min
0.25 oz              Columbus – Boil 10 min
0.25 oz              Cascade – Boil 5 min

Yeast:

WLP029 German Ale/Kolsch [slurry from (m)Oktoberfest brew]

Extras:

@15 1.0 tsp Whirlfoc

@15 0.5 tsp Wyeast nutrient

@kegging 4oz Strawberry Extract flavoring

Brewday

Labor day brewday. This was a "working" brewday in that I multi-tasked household chores while the brew was going. Everything went as planned and ended up collecting 5.5 gallons of 1.048 wort. Pitched a pint of the yeast slurry i saved from my (m)Oktoberfest fermentation and put the carboy in the fermentation chamber at 58F.