Saskatoon Berry Beer Recipe D.I.Y.

Hey Guys and Gals! A wheat ale with saskatoon berries, the prairie berry also called serviceberry or juneberry. Makes 5 gallons.

Ingredients

• 6 lb wheat liquid malt extract
• 1 oz Hallertau hops (60 min)
• 1 pack American wheat or clean ale yeast (Safale US-05)
• 4 lb saskatoon berries, frozen
• Priming: 1 1/4 cups dry malt extract or 3/4 cup priming sugar

Directions

1. Bring 3 gallons of water to a boil, take off the heat and stir in the extract. Return to a boil.
2. Add the hops and boil 60 minutes.
3. Cool, transfer to the primary, top off to 5 gallons, aerate and take a gravity reading.
4. Pitch the yeast at about 72 degrees. Ferment 1 week with the carboy a third empty.
5. Thaw the berries, crush them, heat to 160 degrees for 10 minutes and cool. Put them in the secondary and rack the beer onto them.
6. Let it sit 1 to 2 weeks, then siphon off the fruit.
7. Boil the priming sugar in two pints of water for 5 minutes, pour into the bottling bucket, siphon the beer over it, bottle and cap.
8. Store at 75 degrees for at least the first week to carbonate.

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