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I was just worried and not sure what to expect.

That's what I thought, but I still expected to see some sort of activity. It's currently at 72 F.

I mashed them before racking on top.

For my five gallon batches I use purified water from the grocery store; is that good mineral content wise, or should I use a different type?

I just racked 5 gallons on top of 2.5lbs of blackberries in my secondary. I know I got some yeast in therefrom the primary, but my airlock hasn't been all too active. This is only my second batch so I'm not sure what I should be looking for activity wise.

Awesome advice from you all, thank you! Next time I'll post here when I run into trouble first, and then move forward.

I'm brewing a 5 gal. Amber ale with some fruit additions and in my infinite wisdom I didn't bother to check to see if my auto-siphon would would fit in my 6.5 gal carboy. Well, it didn't. I had everything sanitized both carboys ready to go and I was stuck. I was only able to siphon out about a...

I just did method #2. Smashed the fruit and heated at about 140-150 for 15 minutes, I let it cool off and then racked on top of it. Thank you for the info

I don't have Campden tablets either. I guess boiling will have to do. How will it affect the flavor?

I don't have starsan, I only have the easy clean stuff that get sent with extract kits. Would the flavor of the vodka affect the overall taste if the berries are only soaked say for an hour instead of six?

Hey everyone, I was wondering what your preferred methods for sanitizing your fruit additions is. Im planning on mashing my frozen blackberries in a zip lock and then filling it with vodka and letting it sit for about six hours before racking from primary on top of it

I'm in south Florida, pm me if you have anything available

Sorry, meant to say swirl. Definitely didn't shake them

Ok, so here is what I did. I took the bottles and shook them a bit to re rouse the yeast, left them for a week and then placed one bottle in the fridge for 24 hours, cleaned a glass by hand using cold water, and voilà! A beautiful beer with an even better looking head

I was thinking of leaving it in primary for 14 days and then racking on top of about 4 lbs. blackberries and 2 lbs of raspberries. I'm looking for a nice blackberry aftertaste with a hint of raspberries. I read that the best method for adding fruit is to freeze the fruit to burst the cell...