Cherry Kolsch

[Monghetti]

I posted this under the fermentation section but thought I may get more views/opinions here!

I have a Kolsch that I brewed on October 24th. Very basic recipe with 90% pilsner malt, 10% white wheat, Hersbrucker and Tettnang hops. On October 31 I crashed it and it has been lagering since then.

While at the grocery store today I saw some R.W. Knudsen "just black cherry" juice and thought that might go well with the Kolsch. I bottle condition and am wondering if there is anyway I can still use this juice. Can I add it to the bottling bucket along with priming sugar or is that asking for bombs? I have 1 quart of the juice, 100 grams of sugar in the whole bottle. Ingredients on the package are "juice from ripe, whole black cherries."

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks for the help!

 

[Calder]

100 grams of sugar in the quart of juice is the equivalent to 3.5 ounces of cane sugar (28 grams to the ounce).

If you bottle using cane sugar (5 ozs to 5 gallons), you can replace 3.5 ozs of the priming sugar with the juice.

Remember the juice replaces some of the priming sugar, otherwise you will get bottle bombs.