 |
02-21-2008, 11:02 PM
|
#1
|
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Saint Louis, MO
Posts: 739
|
Where to get tart/sour cherries?
|
|
I've been wanting to make a sour cherry braggot and I think my recipe is where I want it, but so far have been unable to find any tart/sour cherries.
Where do my fellow HBT'ers get their tart/sour cherries from?
Thanks! 
__________________
Primary: Cherry Vanilla Melomel, Blueberry melomel, Orange Cranberry Melomel, Port, Orange Blossom Muscat, Dubbel, Golden Strong
Secondary: 9/9/9/-My version, Carbernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Raspberry Melomel
On deck: Tripel, 5 day IPA Squared, White Russian Imperial Stout
Live in Saint Louis, MO? Then check out www.stlbrews.org and www.garagebrewers.com
|
|
|
|
02-21-2008, 11:12 PM
|
#2
|
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 959
|
I have seen some at the grocery store near my house, they are in cans and located by the canned fruit section, look for a picture of a cherry pie, that's what most people use them for.
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2008, 01:42 AM
|
#3
|
|
Cranky Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Willamina & Oak Grove, Oregon, USA
Posts: 24,799
|
Right, tart cherries are used for cooking. Canned cherries will have a fair amount of sugar in the syrup. Cherry pie filling will be down right thick with it. The sugar will ferment out, but you'll have to consider it in your calculations.
By name, look for Montmorency and Balaton.
__________________
Remember one unassailable statistic, as explained by the late, great George Carlin: "Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!"
Last edited by david_42; 02-22-2008 at 01:44 AM.
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2008, 01:53 AM
|
#4
|
|
Drink your beer!
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Upper Michigan
Posts: 41,470
|
Sometimes you can buy them frozen- check the grocery stores frozen fruit section.
I get mine from my tree in my yard!
__________________
Broken Leg Brewery
Giving beer a leg to stand on since 2006
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2008, 02:26 AM
|
#5
|
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: West Palm, FL
Posts: 1,359
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by YooperBrew
Sometimes you can buy them frozen- check the grocery stores frozen fruit section.
I get mine from my tree in my yard!
|
Lucky lady! Do you ship? 
__________________
"Did you ever kick a woman in the midsection while she was wearing a whalebone corset? I nearly broke my great toe. I never had such a painful experience." -Egbert Souse(W.C.Fields)
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2008, 03:28 AM
|
#6
|
|
"Greenwood Aged Beer"
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 2,304
|
I use Oregon Fruit Products canned Montmorency Cherries. They're packed in water with no added sugar and are pasteurized.
|
|
|
|
|
02-22-2008, 10:47 AM
|
#7
|
|
Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 35
|
I live in Michigan where we have tons of cherries. They have them in the frozen fruits isle at most grocery stores here. Although they are quite expensive, my last batch of cherry wheat I burned through over 20$ worth of cherrys.
If you cannt find any PM me and we can work something out.
|
|
|
|
|
02-24-2008, 06:19 AM
|
#8
|
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Saint Louis, MO
Posts: 739
|
First I want to thank everyone for their input!
The Oregon Fruit canned cherries look to be my best bet. Do you use them 1:1 replacement for fresh cherries?
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Brewtopia
I use Oregon Fruit Products canned Montmorency Cherries. They're packed in water with no added sugar and are pasteurized.
Attachment 4519 |
__________________
Primary: Cherry Vanilla Melomel, Blueberry melomel, Orange Cranberry Melomel, Port, Orange Blossom Muscat, Dubbel, Golden Strong
Secondary: 9/9/9/-My version, Carbernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Raspberry Melomel
On deck: Tripel, 5 day IPA Squared, White Russian Imperial Stout
Live in Saint Louis, MO? Then check out www.stlbrews.org and www.garagebrewers.com
|
|
|
|
|
02-24-2008, 06:22 AM
|
#9
|
|
"Greenwood Aged Beer"
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 2,304
|
yep, pound for pound. I used 10 lbs in a 5 gallon batch of Spiced Cherry Dubbel. Came out great.
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
|
|
