Adding Fruit to the Secondary (Sanitizing)

[BFD175]

If I wanted to add some fruit to the secondary, What is the best way to sanitize it before it goes in. Was thinking maybe about steaming them.

 

[MarkKF]

I've rinsed in starsan. But if the alcohol is 6% probably no need to.

 

[GHBWNY]

I boiled canned apricots in a little water and honey in a covered sauce pan (to retain as much flavor/aroma as possible) for 5 min. Let it cool, put it in secondary, gently rack onto it.

 

[Yooper]

I use campden tablets (crushed and dissolved) for fruit additions. Generally, it's one crushed tablet in a couple of cups of water over 3 pounds of fruit, and let sit overnight and then add to the fermenter and rack the wine into it, if it's in secondary.