Hi all,
I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I have a 3.5 gallon Bourbon Barrel Quad-inspired brew sitting in secondary that I'm hoping to bottle in a few weeks. Rather than have it sit on cherries (the BBQ cherry flavor is overpowering to me), I'm hoping to take the Ommegang Three Philosophers approach and add a dry kriek to the bottling bucket to give it some cherry flavor. I've read a couple of threads that mention the process, but didn't answer what I needed.
I had a few questions about the process:
1.) How much kriek to add, and when. Ommegang uses 2% Liefman's, but 2.5% gives me ~11ounces, or basically one bottle. Should I add it directly to the bottling bucket, or to secondary? Should I let it flatten out to let some of the CO2 out of the bottle, or just pour directly in?
2.) How much priming sugar to add with the kriek? I have regular recycled beer bottles, so I'll be priming to the max 3.0 vols, which would be 4.1oz of corn sugar, according to BeerSmith. Would the kriek affect how much sugar to add?
3.) Bottle conditioning: Would adding the kriek affect the amount of yeast I add for bottle conditioning? More/less?
Thanks!
I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I have a 3.5 gallon Bourbon Barrel Quad-inspired brew sitting in secondary that I'm hoping to bottle in a few weeks. Rather than have it sit on cherries (the BBQ cherry flavor is overpowering to me), I'm hoping to take the Ommegang Three Philosophers approach and add a dry kriek to the bottling bucket to give it some cherry flavor. I've read a couple of threads that mention the process, but didn't answer what I needed.
I had a few questions about the process:
1.) How much kriek to add, and when. Ommegang uses 2% Liefman's, but 2.5% gives me ~11ounces, or basically one bottle. Should I add it directly to the bottling bucket, or to secondary? Should I let it flatten out to let some of the CO2 out of the bottle, or just pour directly in?
2.) How much priming sugar to add with the kriek? I have regular recycled beer bottles, so I'll be priming to the max 3.0 vols, which would be 4.1oz of corn sugar, according to BeerSmith. Would the kriek affect how much sugar to add?
3.) Bottle conditioning: Would adding the kriek affect the amount of yeast I add for bottle conditioning? More/less?
Thanks!