Do I have a problem? Fruit in Primary..

Hi there,

I am fairly new to homebrewing, I've done about 10 extract batches or so. This is my first attempt at adding a fruit to my brew.

So I'm currently brewing a pineapple IIPA, I decided to add straight into the brew 1.5kg of roughly blended (all equipment sanitised) pineapple to my primary after 7 days.
All was going and looking good until 3 days later (today) when I decided to take a sample in my hydrometer to see how it was going .. Not sure if it was a good idea.. Because as soon as I turned my spigot to the 'on' position, I got a few, very little chunks of pineapple and a little trickle of brew down my hydrometer. That was it.
I had to investigate to see if I could unblock the spigot from the inside so I sanitised a spoon and took the lid off carefully and there's just tiny and big pieces of pineapple on the bottom, on top, and all throughout my brew.

So now I'm wondering how the hell in going to bottle this stuff if it doesn't ferment the chunks out. Will the yeast eat the chunks over more time? Should I be worried? Obviously the yeast is nowhere near done fermenting the sugars in the pineapple but will there be pieces left over afterwards?

I've spent quite a bit of money on this brew as its an IIPA so any help on the situation would be great, cheers!

 

Best guess is you beer will probably be fine, but it'll be a real bear when it comes time to rack/package. Before packaging you could cold crash it and/or use gelatin to help drop most of the solids out of suspension. I'd probably do both then very carefully rack to secondary to do any dryhopping

 

Yeast will consume the sugars that diffuse out of the fruit, not the chunks. I just had a similar situation using some cherries in primary. I would suggest building a stainless steel/plastic mesh cage/bag around your siphon tip to prevent clogging of the siphon. I wish I had done that yesterday, and I lost about 0.5 gal of beer because my siphon was clogging to the point that it was too frustrating to finish the very slow siphoning process.

 

Thanks for the replies,
I will be cold crashing. Never used gelatin but I will be trying it this time around.
It sounds like it's going to be a bit of a slow siphon! Hoping for the best.