berry wheat recipe - please critique

[BigAlex]

collective brain,
I'm about to brew my first blueberry (with some raspberry) wheat. Something about spring makes me want a nice blueberry beer, so I'm excited to try one. I love Seadog blueberry, just an awesome spring/summer easy drinking beer. Ive been doing dark/heavy all winter so I'm ready for a change. I love a good berry taste/aroma and wouldn't mind a slight purple-ish color in final product.
My recipe is as follows:

6# Wheat DME
1# cane sugar
10 oz pale wheat (steep)
4 oz Red wheat malt (steep)
3 oz caramel 40L (steep)
1 oz Willamette (60 min)
1 oz Cascade (5 min)
American Wheat 1010
expected: OG-1.064; FG-1.015; SRM-5

4# blueberries and 1# raspberries in secondary (freeze, crush, sanitize with little rum before adding)
1 oz blueberry extract in secondary (possibly more at bottling depending on taste test)

Let sit in secondary for 2-3 weeks

Suggestions welcome!

 

[timrox1212]

Sounds good to me, I'm just not sure about using both blueberries and the extract. I would be careful with the extract. Taste the beer before you put it in and then add tiny amounts of it if u need more.

 

[Brulosopher]

I would ditch the extract too, just go for purity on this maiden batch. Also, there's really no need to sanitize frozen berries prior to tossing them into fermented beer. I just threw 4# mixed berries into 5 gal fermented cider using the same "freeze and squeeze" method. Cheers!