Brewing with home made preserves

rikrcar21 · May 21, 2014

Hi all! I have a 6oz jar of home made strawberry preserves I would like to use to make a batch of beer for the person that made the preserves for me. I have a gallon batch of a Blond in primary fermentation, and I was wondering how much preserves to put into secondary to get a good flavor without over powering the beer with sugar/strawberry flavor. I almost think it would be better to prime with the preserves, but have no idea if this will impart enough flavor and if it does how much to put in to not over/under carbonate.. Please help!

Colorowdy · May 22, 2014

The raw sugar and fructose will ferment out in secondary fermentation. From what I have read it takes quite a bit of strawberry to impart flavor. I would use 12 oz but that's just me.

wilserbrewer · May 22, 2014

Yes, with real strawberries or preserves, my guess is also that the strawberry flavor will not be overpowering at all. Even for only a gallon batch, the whole 6 ounce jar doesn't sound unreasonable. Will raise the abv a bit as their is a bunch of sugar in the preserves that will ferment out.

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rikrcar21 · Jun 3, 2014

Thank you for the info! I went ahead and put the 6oz of preserves and a cup of water in a sauce pan and brought to a boil, cooled down to pitching temperature and added it into an empty gallon carboy, then racked the beer onto the slurry. I did this last night at about 8pm and checked it this morning and haven't noticed any bubbles through the air lock yet. Ill check again tonight, I'm just worried now that I took the yeast cake out that it will have trouble fermenting all that sugar.

rikrcar21 · Jun 4, 2014

wilserbrewer said:
Yes, with real strawberries or preserves, my guess is also that the strawberry flavor will not be overpowering at all. Even for only a gallon batch, the whole 6 ounce jar doesn't sound unreasonable. Will raise the abv a bit as their is a bunch of sugar in the preserves that will ferment out.

Wilserbrewer
Http://biabbags.webs.com/

So its been 2 days now and still no bubbles coming from the air lock..

should I re pitch yeast?