Hello everyone,
My inspiration for this beer is my favorite summer cocktail: cucumber vodka mixed with lemonade. Truly a thirst quencher and quite dangerous as it is very easy to drink. I wanted to try to make a wheat beer that captures these flavors but I’m not sure how best to do it. These are my thoughts:
1:Make the beer and add the cucumber and lemonade in secondary, let it ferment out, and then keg. This would ensure that no further fermentation would happen after kegging but I’m not sure if the lemon flavor would come through after fermentation or if all that sugar would leave it too dry
2: Make the beer, add cucumber in secondary, add sorbates and sulfides, then add lemonade when kegging. The stabilizers would prevent the lemonade from fermenting in the keg but this option would also leave it very sweet. I suppose this would be the truest version of a shandy but I’m not sure if it would be too sweet. I want this to be a fruit beer not a mixed drink.
3: Make the beer, add the cucumber in secondary, add a lemon peel/vodka tincture to taste at kegging. I have never tried a lemon tincture before but I thought this might be a viable option
what do you think? Is there a better idea that i haven’t considered?
My inspiration for this beer is my favorite summer cocktail: cucumber vodka mixed with lemonade. Truly a thirst quencher and quite dangerous as it is very easy to drink. I wanted to try to make a wheat beer that captures these flavors but I’m not sure how best to do it. These are my thoughts:
1:Make the beer and add the cucumber and lemonade in secondary, let it ferment out, and then keg. This would ensure that no further fermentation would happen after kegging but I’m not sure if the lemon flavor would come through after fermentation or if all that sugar would leave it too dry
2: Make the beer, add cucumber in secondary, add sorbates and sulfides, then add lemonade when kegging. The stabilizers would prevent the lemonade from fermenting in the keg but this option would also leave it very sweet. I suppose this would be the truest version of a shandy but I’m not sure if it would be too sweet. I want this to be a fruit beer not a mixed drink.
3: Make the beer, add the cucumber in secondary, add a lemon peel/vodka tincture to taste at kegging. I have never tried a lemon tincture before but I thought this might be a viable option
what do you think? Is there a better idea that i haven’t considered?