Beer-Baron

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I'm brewing a wheat beer tonight and want to add some Orange.

I know that a lot of people on here these days don't bother with a secondary anymore UNLESS they are adding fruit.

Now I'm kinda a lazy guy, and I don't think I want to secondary anyway.

I'm wondering why you guys bother racking on top of fruit into another vessel and not just waiting for primary fermentation to stop and then just opening the lid and dumping the fruit right into the primary and sealing it back up for another couple weeks?

Do you guys really think it could make a difference?

Brett3rThanU

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I did this with my strawberry blonde (I'm lazy too), but I did rack it to a secondary vessel after about 2 weeks with the fruit. I was hoping this would help clear the beer, but later found there's no way to clear a beer with pectin haze. No ill effects in my experience doing it this way.

GRHunter

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Are you doing real fruit, or the flavor extract?

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Beer-Baron

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Well i'm pretty sure I'm going to make my own extract.

Take the zest from 4 oranges, and put it into half a cup of vodka, with 1/4 cup water and let it sit for a week. Then I was going to dump it all right into the fermenter.

But I was also thinking of doing a raspberry wheat and just dumping the puree right into the fermenter after a week or so. I really can't see what difference it would make.

BlueSunshine

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If you can add some sort of fruit flavor extract without sugar, it can be added at bottling time to give your beer a more pronounced flavor. The lack of fermentable sugars is key though, or else you might be looking at some bottle bombs.

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psychedelic_brew

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i've never used orange zest, but i do recall reading that a single cup is sufficient for flavoring 5 gallons. don't quote me on this, but it seems like 4 oranges worth of zest would be a pretty intense orange flavor.

like i said you'll want to verify this w/ a more experienced brewer, but i could have sworn i've read that somewhere.

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