I actually even enjoy a Sam Adams Cherry Wheat once in a while
, so I decided to brew something along that profile with a simple 45% 2row, 45% wheat and 10% munich grain bill and just a bit of tettnang.My original plan was to add cherries to a secondary fermentor and rack the beer onto them after primary ferment was complete. Then somewhere in between I decided to try blueberries instead and shortly thereafter (reading that 2 pounds per gallon are usually required and seeing the price of 12 pounds of blueberries
) I decided to use blueberry juice. I got 2 litres of pure organic - no additive - not from concentrate - blueberry juice from the health food store (still $$$ but not as bad as 12 pounds of berries) and racked the beer onto it in a secondary fermenter after primary completed.I realize that a smart brewer probably would have taken a gravity reading after primary ferment, after adding juice, and after secondary, but I didn't think of it until after all that. I bottled it last night since the gravity was down to 1.008-ish, which I didn't think was possible with wlp001. Anyway, it tasted absolutely awesome, like an american wheat with a nice hint of blueberry pie, and not too sweet even with the added corn sugar, so I'm really hoping it keeps the blueberry flavour after conditioning.
Now after such a long ramble, I was wondering how or if something like this might be accounted for in the biabacus? I figure if I wanted to work out how much extra abv it added I would probably need those gravity readings, or I suppose I could do some fancy math and knowing the amount of sugar in the juice probably get an idea. Just wondering if anyone has done similar brews and whether they accounted for it in biabacus somewhere or if they lean more toward the Bobbrews kind of approach I took here...
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