randalling geueze with fruit

[Minnesotaryan]

anyone done this? thinking of adding black berries to some Lindemans Cuvee Rene. Seems like it would be delicious.

 

[MarkIntihar]

I don't know what "randalling guize" is, but I think I'd like to...

 

[libbey]

Seems like a cheap experiment.

Do it for science and report back.

 

[Fingolfin]

sheeit, i'll bb randall your beef anytime.

 

[AleWatcher]

I did a bottle of Juliet on raspberries and blueberries.... but we didn't have an official Randall.
We just used a French press. It really didn't add much.

I like the *idea* of doing a gueuze on fruit, but I don't expect the results to blow you away.

 

[Minnesotaryan]

I did a bottle of Juliet on raspberries and blueberries.... but we didn't have an official Randall.
We just used a French press. It really didn't add much.

I like the *idea* of doing a gueuze on fruit, but I don't expect the results to blow you away.

yeah, I want to try a non expensive, non fruited beer and see. also I have the randal jr. unsure if it will make a difference compared to a french press, but heres to hoping. will post results sunday when I do it.

 

[Gene1]

I feel like if you crushed the fruit so you got some juice in there it would probably work a bit better. Or just add fruit flavored syrup like it's a Berliner weisse...

 

[Minnesotaryan]

I feel like if you crushed the fruit so you got some juice in there it would probably work a bit better. Or just add fruit flavored syrup like it's a Berliner weisse...

I added black berries to a bcbs for a very poor mans bramble. opened up the berries and it was really nice, we did the same and added some raspberries and a vanilla bean to some town hall buffalo bock, it was INSANE!

 

[Etan]

Make sure you use a coolship:

 

[Thoreau Like A Girl]

hmmm... since i barely drink coffee, looks like i need to bring my french press out of retirement.

 

[GuisseppeFranco]

KevSal was telling me that he and his buds were French Pressing Eclipse beers with coffee and they came out great. Needless to say a French Press is what I asked for Fathers Day.

 

[AleWatcher]

I'm bringing a 375 Tilquin, french press, and some fruit to my Game of Thrones party tonight....
I'll update with results.

 

[AleWatcher]

Ok--
Here's the process and the results:

Smashed a container of fresh blueberries
Added to french press
Slowly poured a 375 ml tilquin gueuze
Let it steep while dsc and I drank a Cantillon kriek I brought.
After about 15 min we pressed the plunger a few times and then poured.

The blueberry flavor added a good note, but it wasnt fully integrated into the profile-- it was fresh blueberry up front, but the fruit didnt add any flavor to the taste of the sourness (hopefully you know what I mean)
The onpy reap drawback was that this process KILLED the carbonation.

It was like drinking an unblended lambic that had a little blueberry flavor.

Would I do it again? Probably. If only because I want to try using frozen fruit and sampling a sip every 2 min to find the sweet spot where it it still carbonated but the fruit flavor is present.

I also would try other fruits.... this might be a good use of some of those cheap shelf gueuzes.

 

[stupac2]

KevSal was telling me that he and his buds were French Pressing Eclipse beers with coffee and they came out great. Needless to say a French Press is what I asked for Fathers Day.

We did a coffee chocolate rain a while back that ended up pretty damn awesome. Especially over ice cream.

 

[Minnesotaryan]

this might be a good use of some of those cheap shelf gueuzes.

this.

KWMiles and I did the same thing with blackberries and a randal jr instrad of a french press. the randal does seem to preserve the carbonation somehow. I wish I had let it sit longer, the berries didn't saturate the flavor as much as I had hoped. I have added blackberries to bcbs twice now, and it is sublime, wish they worked as well in a geuze.