I am formulating a new fruit beer recipe and I'm planning on using a technique gotten from a professional brewery. They make a very simple wheat/fruit beer but they add seedless fruit puree at whirlpool. The puree is between 13 - 15 brix which means it is about 1.057 specific gravity.
Given that I will mash the grains and end up with a wort that is 1.045 without the puree and then add some bittering hops during the boil, how do I calculate the effect of the fruit puree's gravity on the hops? Do I calculate the bittering for just the wort when I add the hops or do I calculate it for the wort after the hops have been added and boiled for an hour and then the puree is added?
Given that I will mash the grains and end up with a wort that is 1.045 without the puree and then add some bittering hops during the boil, how do I calculate the effect of the fruit puree's gravity on the hops? Do I calculate the bittering for just the wort when I add the hops or do I calculate it for the wort after the hops have been added and boiled for an hour and then the puree is added?