I am making a blueberry wit and will be adding 3 lbs of frozen blueberries to 2.5 gallons in secondary.
The plan is to puree the thawed blueberries and sterilize with a campden tablet 24 yrs before pitching into the secondary.
My question is - will the campden harm the 'good' yeast (as in, the Wyeast that I pitched)? It seems to me that if it is able to kill wild yeast and bacteria - why would it not also harm the good yeast after I pitch the berries into the secondary? I still need that yeast healthy to ferment the berrries, as well as to ferment the priming sugar and carbonate.
The plan is to puree the thawed blueberries and sterilize with a campden tablet 24 yrs before pitching into the secondary.
My question is - will the campden harm the 'good' yeast (as in, the Wyeast that I pitched)? It seems to me that if it is able to kill wild yeast and bacteria - why would it not also harm the good yeast after I pitch the berries into the secondary? I still need that yeast healthy to ferment the berrries, as well as to ferment the priming sugar and carbonate.