funkyunky199
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If any of you have experience here, I defer to you. I purchased a Raspberry Wheat kit from Midwest and with it came the extract. Reading up on it a bit, I was thinking of bagging the extract and adding my own raspberry puree instead to give it (hopefully) a better flavor.
Some questions that I have about it:
1. Everything I read says about adding the fruit to the secondary. Why not add it to the primary and let the yeast do what they do at the same time?
2. Having a 6.5 gallon pail and only a 5 gallon carboy, I assume that using 2 stage fermentation I would want to use the 6.5 gallon to accommodate for some re-fermentation in the secondary? Will my airlock be able to handle the CO2 or would it be a better idea to connect a blow-off tube?
I guess that's where I will start...any help or suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks!
Some questions that I have about it:
1. Everything I read says about adding the fruit to the secondary. Why not add it to the primary and let the yeast do what they do at the same time?
2. Having a 6.5 gallon pail and only a 5 gallon carboy, I assume that using 2 stage fermentation I would want to use the 6.5 gallon to accommodate for some re-fermentation in the secondary? Will my airlock be able to handle the CO2 or would it be a better idea to connect a blow-off tube?
I guess that's where I will start...any help or suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks!