Hey,
I'm brewing a Centennial blonde ale that I found in the recipes here and wanted to add strawberries in the secondary for flavor. It's a 5.5 gallon batch, just started fermenting today and I was going to rack to secondary towards the end of fermentation, maybe a few points above what I'm expecting to be FG. I want to chop up 4 lbs of strawberries and have them in the secondary, and I'm thinking I need to do something to prevent any infection. Would anyone recommend soaking the strawberries in vodka for a few days, then just transfer over the entire mess to the secondary? I will obviously wash the strawberries before hand, try my best to get them free from any nastiness prior to the vodka soak.
First time I've ever tried something like this, let me know what you think. Thanks in advance.
I'm brewing a Centennial blonde ale that I found in the recipes here and wanted to add strawberries in the secondary for flavor. It's a 5.5 gallon batch, just started fermenting today and I was going to rack to secondary towards the end of fermentation, maybe a few points above what I'm expecting to be FG. I want to chop up 4 lbs of strawberries and have them in the secondary, and I'm thinking I need to do something to prevent any infection. Would anyone recommend soaking the strawberries in vodka for a few days, then just transfer over the entire mess to the secondary? I will obviously wash the strawberries before hand, try my best to get them free from any nastiness prior to the vodka soak.
First time I've ever tried something like this, let me know what you think. Thanks in advance.