Grancru

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MedsenFey

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You can use just about any tool that you find handy. You turn the carboy over to get the orange pieces near the opening, and you can use a bottle brush, a coat hanger, crochet needles, needle-nose pliers, a hemostat, or just about anything else to grab them or pull them though.

This process is exactly why I now ferment most all fruit batches in a bucket.

Medsen

WheresOurFish

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What Medsen said. As an added bonus, if you use a bucket, you can put the fruit in a grain bag or some cheese cloth for easier removal. I just pulled the pineapple and ginger out of my latest batch last night so that things can settle back down before I rack it to secondary this weekend. I'm also expecting to lose less of my mead by doing so.

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summersolstice

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I just use a fork for orange wedges. It works pretty good.

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jaxn

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Same here.

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Primary:
Clover trad'l mead, Orange Blossom trad'l mead, Joe's Quick Gape Mead, Pliny the Bastid

Secondary: Basic Sparkling Cyser, Wildflower Mead, Habanero Mead, Strawberry Pizzazz

Keg: Amarillo Pale Ale, Bourbon Barrel Porter, Centennial Blonde Ale, Cider, Jalapeño Blonde Ale

Bottled: Joe's Ancient Orange

On deck: Prickly Pear Mead, Hefty Braggot, Pliny the Bastid, Chocolate Mead

Beernik

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Most of the time: if it goes in easy, it comes out easy. Sometimes you have to stick your fingers in there and pull it out.

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Brew outside the lines
Primary: black currant cyser
Planning: Black Weisenbock, (when my brother gets off his ass): Porter

Carbonating/Bottle Conditioning: Sparkling Peach Mead, Rye-Peppercorn Barleywine, Hazelnut Stout
Beers Drinking: Hazelnut Stout and Cran-Pom Lambic

Grancru

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Thanks everyone

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jim_reaper1066

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I had made a hard lemonade once and cut the lemons into 8's. After racking into a bottling bucket the remaining lemons in the carboy had become so hydrated and squishy I could shake them out over the kitchen sink. They just shoot right out.

DaveAllen

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I cut the fruit small/thin enough so that it goes right in without being forced. When it's time to clean up, I fill the carboy with water, invert, and start swirling to create a cyclone inside, and 95% of the fruit matter swirls right out.