Fruit season

[blacksailj]

Once you have made the finest beer there is and ready for a fruit addition in the secondary, how do you go about sanitizing the fresh fruit you pick in the wild while keeping the flavor intact? Thanks folks.

 

[paraordnance]

no need to sanitize fruit as long as its clean

 

[blacksailj]

I have mulberries in mind there is an open field of them near my house. You think just by running water over them would be enough? Often any pressure, even from picking will burst them. I'm thinking of doing a Belgian White for it.

 

[Fizzycist]

Most people will sit them in a little vodka for a while then chuck it all in.

 

[shoreman]

If not using right away freeze them - if not just add them in - the booze in your homebrew is enough - if it isn't you'll get some nice local yeast character from the fruit