Honeysuckle Wheat Ale?!?

[brentt03]

Gonna create a wheat ale with honeysuckle and was wondering what you guys thought the best way to add the honeysuckles would be??

 

[drksky]

As a dry "hop" in secondary?

 

[brentt03]

That's a good idea, I'll get some good aroma that way!

 

[NicoleBrewer]

Does honey suckle grow as a vine? I have these vines that grow on my house and the flowers smell amazing and I think it's honey suckle. I bet it would be awesome with a wheat beer but if you put it in secondary how would you sanitize the flowers? Could you extract it with vodka?

 

[brentt03]

Does honey suckle grow as a vine? I have these vines that grow on my house and the flowers smell amazing and I think it's honey suckle. I bet it would be awesome with a wheat beer but if you put it in secondary how would you sanitize the flowers? Could you extract it with vodka?

That's a good point...wonder what the best way to sanitize would be??

 

[NicoleBrewer]

I bet it would work well if you infused vodka with them then added the vodka either insecondary or before bottling/kegging

 

[stevedis]

People do make wine from honeysuckle flowers. My LHBS recently posted a recipe in which he recommends steeping the flowers in boiled water for several hours, which might not be a bad idea for a brew. Here's the link; http://www.jaysbrewing.com/2013/05/09/easy-honeysuckle-wine/

 

[Felixio]

The wine recipe that I'll be trying this year (for the first time) calls for only the petals, you have to remove everything else before steeping them into a tea.

I could see infusing vodka with this flavor before adding to secondary.

Also, my 1 gallon wine recipe calls for 7 cups of the petals. Hopefully that will help give you an idea on how much you'll need for flavor.

 

[brentt03]

Yea that def helps! Thanks

 

[NicoleBrewer]

My honey suckle is about to bloom. I'm curious if you've tried it yet. I'd like to attempt it too but not sure whether to make the tea or extract with vodka

 

[NicoleBrewer]

http://www.gardenguides.com/99586-make-honeysuckle-extract.html

Found this in my search, thought it was interesting. Seems like way to much time and effort for me though