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What about just dropping a small piece of dry ice into your empty bottles, waiting for it to sublimate and then gently filling with a tube?

I don't soak anything in Star San. I just pour in about 500mL into my 6 gal fermenter and slosh it around. Or sometimes I just use a spray bottle and mist the heck out of everything. I've never had a contamination issue.

Just a quick update: The berries are still floating but not as much. Over the past 2 weeks I have been periodically and gently tipping the carboy to about a 45 degree angle in all directions. This has the effect of gently (GENTLY!) rolling and soaking the floating berries with beer. some of the...

But do you think they are actually fermenting or adding anything to the beer if they are above the surface of the liquid?

I realize this reply is 2 years after OP but as it turns out, I'm doing an almost identical beer. I racked my brew into secondary on top of about 3.5lbs of cranberries. They were fresh when I bought them. I froze them overnight, thawed them out and crushed them before funneling them into my 6gal...