Raspberry! Boysenberry! Strawberry! That's my Jam!

Infectious Groovalicious!

Stripped some more bottles while cooking up a raspberry wheat. The raspberry is gonna come from a bottle this time. Coupla more kits and we're gonna go off the grid, but we're gonna nail the process first.

These ingredients came from MoreBeer in the form of Berry Beer Kit. Here's a pic of it unboxed:

Pretty much the standard procedure. The kit did include a Whirlfloc tablet, intended to be added 5 minutes before the boil ended. It's meant to clear the brew by causing proteins to coagulate during the "cold break" (when stuff drops loose as you cool from a full boil to yeast-pitching temps.) I trust it did its stuff, as the wort got ugly! OK, more than ugly, extremely gross and disgusting looking. Yeesh!

 Once we got through that bit of ugliness, the Kitchen ended up with 4ish gallons in the fermenter.

 And yes, the fermenter gets to wear my Wingman Brewers T-shirt for the next week or so! I realize that Speidel is opaque, but I'm still paranoid about light-struck brews.

 And here's what's left in the brew kettle after the wort's been drained: ugly muck of a mess!