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beer, beer, beer, beer, PEAR!

Posted on February 24th, 2006
tagged: homebrew

For my sophomore homebrew effort, I had originally planned on trying a 1554 clone recipe I got from a fellow homebrewing flickrite, flickeree, flickerer. However, once I got to Austin Homebrew Supply I started discussing beers and recipes with Billy and inevitably the conversation lead to the Golden Monkey.

Unfortunately, they don’t have a Golden Monkey clone available, nor were they aware of one, but one of the AHS guys recommended their Devil’s Brew Recipe. At checkout, another AHS guy Scott mentioned that a friend of his recently used the recipe and added some pear juice, which resulted in a brew he was extremely happy with. Simple enough, so I jotted down a note to add a pint of pear juice to the mash.

Simple enough indeed! I couldn’t find 100% pear juice anywhere. Even in the grocer’s hippy section. Never mind that I only searched one grocer. Being very set on Pear beer at this point, I opted to take matters into my own hands. I ended up with about 2.5 lbs of pears, which I skinned, quartered and then pureed in a food processor. I boiled 2 cups of the resulting pear sauce in 2 cups of water for 10 minutes, which was then shortly added into the mash along with the flavor hops. The resulting wort had a subtle enough pear scent, but now that it’s been fermenting for almost a week in my closet, the delicious aroma of pears is nearly overwhelming.

I’m still excited about this beer, but not nearly as excited as I am about the prospect of all my clothes smelling like pears.

18 Responses to 'beer, beer, beer, beer, PEAR!'

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  1. February 24th, 2006 | 6:09 pm


    g said,

    ahem. my own hands totally skinned at least half of those pears.

  2. June 12th, 2006 | 3:58 pm


    Dave said,

    i just purchased a home brew kit and made a cherry wheat for my first batch. I used 2 jars of cherries (i mashed them)…came out pretty tasty. anyway, i was talking about my little project with a fellow beer guru at work when he thought up a pear pale ale. i was considering trying it and found this on a google search…so how is it?

  3. June 13th, 2006 | 12:15 pm


    smason said,

    It turned out great! The pear flavor was much more subtle than I would have guessed given the aroma of the fermenting wort and the final product itself. Judging from all of my friend’s reactions, I’d have to say it’s been the most well liked brew so far. The haziness that resulted from boiling the pear sauce was pretty minimal in the end, so if you can’t find pear juice, I wouldn’t worry about going the puree/boiling route.

    If you’re interested in the recipe (it was a honey ale), I’d be happy to pass it along to you.

  4. June 27th, 2006 | 5:32 pm


    mister house said,

    So basically it’s the AHS clone of Devil’s Brew with a pint of Pear Juice added with the flavor hops. Sweet. I’m gonna brew it.

  5. June 27th, 2006 | 10:48 pm


    smason said,

    If you can find and use pear juice instead of pureeing the pears like I did, let me know how it turns out.

    I brewed the AHS Raspberry Wheat last weekend, and tried adding 12oz of pureed raspberries with the flavor hops. Unfortunately this time around neither the flavor nor aroma of the raspberries carried through as strongly as the pears did.

  6. June 13th, 2007 | 12:41 am


    gina said,

    still my favourite brew. and I think I remember you got really drunk while making this one. still have a bottle hanging around?

    ok, maybe my 2nd favourite brew.

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