Watermelon Wheat

Northern Brewer General
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Has anyone made a watermelon wheat? I am intrigued by adding some watermelon flavor during bottling of a wheat beer. I’ve never had anything like it and curious if anyone has any pointers. Thanks.

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How were you planning to add the watermelon flavor? Actual juice? Seems like the flavor would be very subtle.

I believe its the 21st amendment Brewery that has the hell or high watermelon wheat beer. Not a bad beer, nice for summer. Maybe shoot them an email?

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Make an Imperial Wheat, then cut 50/50 with fresh-squeezed watermelon juice? Or just add a quality extract to taste at bottling if you want to go the simple route (and then you can have some with watermelon and some without).

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I had thought of this a while back, and then stumbles on the aforementioned Hell and High Water. Thought that was pretty poor, so I abandoned the idea. You might want to try one of those before you invest the time, effort and money into making one.

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I tried it a few years ago at the Oregon Brewer’s fest and didn’t care for it. Watermelon is a very mild tasting fruit, you’ll need a lot to really taste it.

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apologies for straying off topic, as the idea sounds intriguing, but i recently had a trip to chicago where i bought up a bunch of beers to bring home and had a well’s banana bread beer…so good.

would a wheat be the best base for a watermelon taste though? now i want some watermelon juice to try, so that i could “envision” a beer with it.

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I love 21st Amendment watermelon and will be making this beer in the near future (timing it with the beginning of summer in Seattle, July 5th) http://outofkey.com/beer/brewing/waterm … at-recipe/

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I brewed a batch of watermelon wheat last summer using a wheat beer kit from Midwest and a bottle of watermelon extract. It tasted ok… hell or high water was far better. Also the watermelon extract just tastes really fake. Also as a warning if you put it on tap consider replacing tubes because everything it touched had a waft of melon.
I’m considering trying to brew it again with more malt and using only fresh melon.
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