cherry beer went dormant

[jajao44]

Would I lose cherry flavor from a cherry beer if I took the cherries out and moved it to a secondary carboy for conditioning before fermentation was complete. I had it in my garage and it was too cold for it and I mistakenly thought fermentation was over. I now have the carboy inside around 74-77F and it is still bubbling every few minutes after a week.

I'm not too worried about it the cherries were tart cherries and were all floating and paler when I did the transfer. I was thinking about adding cherry juice to the carboy to experiment but I think I'll just let it condition and extra 2 weeks before I bottle and see how it turns out.

I think I'll just try it again when I can get fresh cherries. Any thoughts?

 

[celticcolorado]

You certainly could if you are concerned about it having the cherries in too long. It sounds like you just need to move it too a warmer area to get fermentation going again, maybe give it a gentle shake. Unless there is a reason that you don't want the cherries in it anymore, I don't think I would risk contamination by racking to secondary.