Barney's Back Strong Berry Wheat Beer

In the summer of 2014, Good Neighbor's first all grain brew was Barney's Dead. It was an experiment lead by Brett Meador wanting to make a beer with the mulberries that he personally picked from trees at his house. In today's post we are talking about the Lazareth of the Barney series -- Barney's Back! The second edition of the Barney series still consists of handpicked mulberries. They were picked in the late summer of 2014 by Neal and Brett....

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Harvesting Yeast from Primary Fermentation

The yeast here was harvested from the primary fermentation of Barney's Back. Its noteworthy to mention that there were 2 packs of dry wheat beer yeast pitched initially into the carboy to start primary fermentation. The primary was only 6 days in duration, before moving it to a secondary and adding berries. Primary was cut short just to ensure there were still plenty of yeast in suspension to take care of the sugars that the berries added. The...

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