Passion Wheat Ale

 

This is a recipe for a very refreshing, light and delicious wheat ale with natural passion fruit flavor. A winner for summer and among light beer drinkers.

Used passion fruit pulp from Amazon, link HERE:

This pulp is the real deal. Coming from a tropical country where passion fruit grows like weed everywhere, I know what the real deal is 😁. Having small individual pouches makes it easier to measure as well last longer in freezer.

With no further due, here's the recipe for a 5gal batch:

Grain Bill:

• 4 1/2 lb Great Western 2 row
• 4 1/2 lb Great Western Wheat
• 1/2 lb Dextrapill
• 1/4 lb Cara-vienne
• 1/2 lb Vienna

Water profile (ppm):

Ca = 88

Mg = 22

Na = 4

Cl = 142

SO4 = 93

Cl/SO4 = 1.53

Mashed for 60 minutes at 157F.

Hop schedule, boil time of 60min:

• 2oz Goldings US for 30min
• 1oz Citra at flame-out

Fermenter at 64F with Fermentis S-04 yeast, 1 pack added to wort directly.

As for the passion fruit pulp, blended 3 pouches of pulp on low speed with little water just to extract the juices, then strained, adding some water during this process. Overall juice volume of about 5oz, added to Keg when beer is completed fermented.

Final numbers:

OG = 1.047

FG = 1.014

ABV% = 4.1

IBU = 21

SRM = 6