Brewing a Fruited American Wheat Beer 

Thank you! We did use WLP320 for this batch. We have used WLP001 with this recipe before and can hardly tell a difference with the additional apricot flavor.

Thank you! I add 1/2 tsp per gallon of potassium sorbate and 1/4 tsp per 6 gallons of potassium metabisulphite to the fermenter at least 24 hours before cold crashing. These two additions prevent the yeast from reproducing and fermenting any added sugar. Once the potassium sorbate/metabisulfite have been in contact with the beer for at least 24 hours, you can add in your fruit without worrying about additional fermentation. I have only ever kegged my fruited beers, but it will work with bottling as it is the same technique used to backsweeten wine.

Thank you for the comment! Personally I haven’t used extracts or emulsions yet in any of my recipes, but emulsions are very similar in strength to extracts. They are two of the most concentrated flavorings you can use and are typically used at a rate of 0.25 grams per liter. There are other flavorings such as purées that are typically not as strong as extracts and emulsions. For these fruit based flavorings, I typically use the brand Amoretti at a rate of 15 - 20 grams per liter. If I were you, and I had the time, I would first brew a batch of the hard soda without any flavorings. Once it is finished, I would pour small samples, around 120 mL of soda into each of at least 6 - 8 glasses. I would add different amounts of flavoring into each glass to see what concentration you like best. Once you find your perfect ratio, you can extrapolate out for the whole batch. For example, if you like 0.05 mL of emulsion in your 120 mL glass, you would like around 42 mL in your 100l batch. This is the process I used when making my fruited wheat beer and lemonade shandy. One word of caution though - some of the pre-mixed pumpkin spice flavorings I have tried have not been pleasant. They tend to use way too much cinnamon and it ends up reminding me of fireball. For my pumpkin beer, I used a ratio of 40:12:12 of ground cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger respectively in the boil for 5 minutes and it turned out great. I would be curious to hear how your soda turns out if you used the emulsion version of the pumpkin pie spices. Please let me know if you have any additional questions. Cheers!

@@thebeerjunkies1 extracts are super easy. If you're bored and looking at making some sodas the mix is 10ml per liter of simple syrup. Simple syrup goes in at 100ml per liter of soda