jknapp12105
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What do y'all think would be better to use? Frozen or Canned Apricots and how much should be used in a 5 gal batch?
Frozen Apricots/canned apricots
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For what it's worth, I used apricot purée in a recent apricot wheat and like the way it turned out. I just bought a can of Vinter's from Austin Homebrew to use with a wheat kit.
That said, I'd definitely be curious to try a new way of brewing the beer with real fruit, too.
That said, I'd definitely be curious to try a new way of brewing the beer with real fruit, too.
What type of beer and when do you planing on adding them? Frozen apricots are going to need to be boiled to sanitize. I have brewed 3 apricot beers now and I prefer use the the extract bottles, prior to bottling/kegging. other methods fail to produce a noticeable apricot flavor and offten just make the beer cloudy. If you want to go the "real fruit" method though I would get the puree and add it to the secondary.
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smithn said:
To add to this, I will say my favorite (Ithaca Apricot Wheat) uses flavoring in their brew. Based on my personal experience with extract in my homebrews, I prefer the real thing for my purposes.
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smithn said:
I used canned apricots and puréed them. I am going to let it sit in the Secondary for two weeks and see how it turns out.
