Cherry wheat question

[Burksbrew]

I was gonna use a Cooper's wheat ale kit (hopped) and i have some fresh from the farm pressed cherry juice. Is this a good idea and should I add no more sugar to the kit?

 

[Bewbzout]

Have you ever had samuel adams cherry wheat?

 

[Burksbrew]

Yes but I wanted something that tastes less like a luden's cough drop. I wouldnt mind having like a hefewezen taste to it as well.

 

[Burksbrew]

I guess what I'm asking is that I read other posts where people added to the secondary. How did it work out?

 

[Burksbrew]

...or should I put it in primary and cut down sugar?

 

[djfriesen]

You could boil it, and then mix it to taste when bottling. But then you'd have to do some quick and dirty math to adjust priming sugar. Then again, I wonder if boiling it well would carmelize some of the sugar and drop out some of the fermentables. Hmm. . .something to research.

 

[windbreaker123]

Neither way will taste like ludens. You will have to go with a extract and adjust taste at bottling time to your liking.

 

[Burksbrew]

It want it more subtle like Custom Brewcrafters made their raspberry wheat. I think I'll add five pounds equivilent of cherry extract to the secondary and cross my fingers. Would hefeweizen yeast be ok to use?