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Old 10-08-2011, 12:46 AM   #201
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Making some of this strawberry blond this weekend! Looking forward to it. One question, did you leave the strawberry frozen when pouring the wort on top??
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Old 10-09-2011, 06:52 AM   #202
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Just made this batch. Am looking forward to putting the fruit into it. I've never done a secondary fermentation before nonetheless with fruit.
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Old 10-11-2011, 01:07 PM   #203
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Making some of this strawberry blond this weekend! Looking forward to it. One question, did you leave the strawberry frozen when pouring the wort on top??
This response might be too late for you, but I just froze my fruit and took them out of the freezer right into a sanitized fermenter then siphoned wort on top of it. Before racking to bottling bucket, I used a strainer to get most of the fruit out which had floated to the top.
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Old 10-22-2011, 05:36 PM   #204
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Brewing this up today. I'm actually making it a imperial strawberry blond
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Old 11-29-2011, 01:59 AM   #205
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Bluelinebrewer, how long did you let this brew sit in bottles??
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Old 11-30-2011, 07:12 PM   #206
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Ok here's the situation. I brewed this beer about a week ago with some edits to the recipe. I used 6.6 pounds of Muntons Extra Light LME and 2 pounds of Muntons DME, and Ale I Wyeast pack (what I had available) -- I came up with an OG reading of 1.098 = way high. Is this a matter of my differences in ingredients?

Now, after 7 days in primary the gravity reading is 1.034 with my refractometer. I have read that refractometers are not accurate when alcohol is present and to just use the handy-dandy hydrometer for a good reading (although I recently shattered mine). I checked it two days in a row and still 1.034 -- Do I have a stuck fermentation on my hands?

I went ahead and racked it into secondary onto 8 pounds of frozen strawberry and threw in some active dry yeast, thinking this might get it going again, and set my room up to around 75 degrees. The airlock is bubbling but still pretty slowly. Sorry for the long post, but any pointers here???
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How did this turn out?
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Old 12-19-2011, 02:19 PM   #208
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This brew has turned out very well so far. I just bottled it yesterday after 2 weeks in tertiary. Fairly cleared out, but will do more in the bottles I believe. It smells unelievably good so I am pumped to try it! My final gravity reading (with hydrometer) was 1.014, so I am happy with that -- I just don't trust my initial reading of 1.098 -- that would be a meaty beer/wine combo. Will let everyone know how it tastes!
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Wow, haven't logged into HBT for a looooooong time.... Life kinda got busy and just haven't had the time to brew. Recently got a beer kit for Christmas, and thought I'd try to get back into it. I had no idea there were so many posts on this thread!! It appears that the beer seems to be good! I'll try to read back through all of them and see if there's any questions, that haven't been answered yet.
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Old 12-30-2011, 10:28 AM   #210
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I made a 10 gal all grain batch of a basic blonde ale and split into two fermenters. Tomorrow I'm racking to secondary after two week primary and putting half of onto 3lbs of frozen strawberry.

I'm also getting a little crazy and dry hopping with .5 oz of sorachi ace for a hint of lemon character too. The other 5 gal I'm dry hopping with sorachi ace and a little cascade. I'll be kegging the strawberry and bottling the other. Hope it all turns out!

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