Raspberry Porter or Raspberry Dunkel

Woohoo! The batch of raspberry porter i started brewing 3 weeks ago was ready for bottling today.  I took a little taste prior to bottling and it did not contain the typical smokey, chocolatey taste I'd expect from a porter. Perhaps next time I should use two cans of the Mr. Beer UME rather than one and the booster. It also didn't have much of a raspberry taste, so maybe I also went a little too easy there, but maybe the fresh brewed yeastiness was just overwhelming the taste.  It could've been just the yeast talking to me, but the taste actual reminded me more of a dunkelweiss.  So, based on this initial taste, I've decided to rechristen this batch of brew the Raspberry Dunkel.  Now let's give it another four weeks of conditioning and see how it turns out.



A little tasting prior to bottling


Bottles all lined up waiting for priming sugar and bottling