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Cherry Amarillo Ale

A while back Founders released Frootwood - a somewhat sour barrel aged cherry ale. I don't properly remember its flavour, or have a maple barrel, but this came out really well

Mash

The initial layout of the recipe is in Brewfather.

  • 1.5kg can Pale Malt Extract

  • 1.5kg can Wheat Malt Extract

  • 200g light DME

  • 200g lactose

  • 200g rolled oats

  • 200g Dextrose

  • 200g Carapils

Oats and carapils were mini-mashed for around 60 minutes in about 6L of water @ 67ish.

Boil

30 minute boil, post boil volume of 15L for fermenting

  • 25g Amarillo @ 30m

  • 25g Amarillo hopstand @ 80C for 20m

Fermentation

Pitched with US05 - fermentation around 20-22C at around 20psi.

After fermentation completed, moved to a secondary and added 200g bouron staves and a vanilla bean, along with 1kg of frozen cherries. This was left for an additional 10 days

I mini-kegged 5L of this, bottled about 4L and put 2L in a mini-barrel for about a month. That's still finishing up (Aug 2020).

No waiting around for a proper cold crash, this glass was force carbed in a PET bottle and shaken vigorously, keeping a few extra solids in suspension.