illin8

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OK...so I promised SWMBO a strawberry blonde. My original plan was to add strawberry extract so I purchased it. Now that this batch is day 14 in primary I'm having second thoughts about using the strawberry extract after reading some previous posts on using extract. So I'm looking for your opinion...what should I do? Do a 1/2 blonde and 1/2 strawberry blonde using the extract or use real strawberries (keeping in mind I'm on day 14 primary)? I don't want to ruin a good batch...or should I just keep it unflavored? She was looking forward to the strawberry blonde though. Thoughts?

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South County Brewing Co.
Primaries 1 & 2: Apfelwein
Primary 3: EdWort's Haus Pale Ale
Bottle Conditioning: AHS Oktoberfest, Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde

On deck: Nothing (recently moved/working on the laundry list)

conpewter

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I'd be tempted to rack half of it to the bottling bucket, add a little strawberry extract, swirl it with a spoon and then taste a bit (out of the spigot?). Then you can continue to add extract until you hit where you like. Add the priming sugar solution then bottle. Then bottle the other half as normal to make sure you have some blonde that is the control.

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Primary: Nothin
Secondary: Shady Lord RIS, Water to Barleywine, Pumpkin wine, burnt mead
Kegged: Crappy infected mild
Bottles: Apfelwein, 999 Barleywine, Oatmeal Stout, Robust Porter, Robust smoked porter, Simcoe Smash

illin8

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Yeah that is what I was gonna do, but started reading about the taste of extract after bottling was noticeably artificial, almost in a bad way. SWMBO has Pete's Wicked Strawberry Blonde in mind so I'm not sure if extract will get me there.

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South County Brewing Co.
Primaries 1 & 2: Apfelwein
Primary 3: EdWort's Haus Pale Ale
Bottle Conditioning: AHS Oktoberfest, Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde

On deck: Nothing (recently moved/working on the laundry list)

MgMt_Home_Brew

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Did you ever make this? I would like to make a strawberry blonde using real strawberries.

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jacksonbrown

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I made a strawberry batch from the Centennial Blonde recipe. Came out fantastic! I brewed 10 gallons so I split the batches, one reg the other strawberry. After fermentation I transfered 5 gal onto 5 lb of mushed up frozen-thawed strawberries. It thinned out the beer nicely and gave it a great strawberry aroma (flavor was subdued, you might want to add an additional lb).

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Barefoot Brewery

Primary: German Alt
Bottled: Kolch, German Hefeweizen
On tap: 60/- Light Scottish Ale