So my wife’s last batch was a Strawberry Cream Ale. The only bad thing, there was no strawberry flavor. When I went to "Brew Your Own Brew" to get the ingredients for the White House Honey Ale I wanted to try (policies aside, it’s a good beer) she went with me to find something to try too. The guy working there suggested adding fruit to a beer in the secondary for more flavor. He said that he added strawberries to their Cream Ale kit before and it turned out pretty good. She decided to do that. Anyways, the strawberry flavor didn’t take. She boiled them to sterilize them, and then froze them. When she transferred the beer into the secondary fermentation bucket, she added the strawberries. 2 weeks later, she transferredthe beer into the bottles. 2 more weeks later, opened a bottle and no strawberry flavor at all. Any suggestions on how to make the beer tale the fruit flavor? She did a 5 gallon batch and added 1 pound of fresh strawberries. The berries where sweet to begin with. She tried a few when she was cutting the stems off.
Thanks for the help
Thanks for the help