Rhubarb Wheat Beer Idea

[Inky]

Hey,
First time on here in ages but had a bit of a random idea dunno if it'd work. I have some fresh rhubarb growing out the back and I'm thinking of adding it to a wheat kit I have. I've seen it as a rhubarb wine so I dunno if it'd work in a beer. I thought of boiling the rhubarb in the 3 litres of water before I add it to the kit but am unsure if it'd work. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Cheers

[Will_D]

The recommended country wine technique for rhubarb wine is to extract the flavours but not the acids by dry steeping with sugar (ie. Chop the Rhubarb, cover with sugar, leave for 24 hours, pour off the syrup, wash with water and ferment)

Suggest you do this and add syrup to the wheat beer!

[Dr Horrible]

I did a rhubarb wheat beer a while ago. Added about 600g rhubarb (boiled briefly) to secondary. It turned out  nearly undrinkably bitter initially but after a few months mellowed out to a very pleasant beer. Wills idea will likely work but you will have to take into account the sugar bumping up the ABV considerably.

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[Pheeel]

This thread reminds me I have some rhubarb wine fermenting in my shed....