Best time to add raspberries?

[mculbertson20]

I am making the White House Honey Ale kit from Northern Brewer. I thought I would add some raspberries to the recipe. As I am new to home brewing, I have never done this before. Looking for any tips on when to add, and how much to use. The beer kit is for 5 gallons. I'm looking for only a little of the raspberry flavor. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks


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[ob_1jr]

Put them in your secondary or after the primary fermentation is over. When I did it, I used raspberry puree from midwest. One can was added about 3 weeks into the secondary. My beer spent almost 5 months in the secondary because I was using a friend's equipment and we got too busy with work. It was some tasty beer that I drank the last one almost a year from the day we brewed it. Sorry I cant comment on how much frozen or fresh raspberries to add.

 

[Jwerner23]

I made a raspberry wheat that I used to 2 lbs. of frozen raspberries in the secondary for about 10 days.

 

[seckert]

depending on how new you are you to homebrewing, you could always add extract to your bottling bucket prior to bottling. I will say adding real raspberries to your secondary is definitely the preferred method, but if you don't have the equipment you can always do it the way I mentioned.

 

[ArcLight]

I used Raspberry puree and it came out great.
With whole raspberries the challenge is getting them in a form that the yeast can get to them.

Chances are that whole raspberries are covered in bacteria and yeast and mold.

I'd sanitize a blender, puree them, then freeze the puree to rupture the cell walls so the yeast can get everything.

Then add this to the secondary for at least 2 weeks, and maybe longer so the yeast can get at everything.
Adding the fresh raspberries to the secondary makes sure than any yeast and microbes are exposed to alcohol and a low pH and hopefully cuts down on infection risk.