SWMBO wants me to make her a cherry wheat for spring. I've read a little about how some have added the cherry flavor. Some use 4-8 oz of cherry extract in the bottling bucket, and some will dry hop with them for a week. I've also seen in the brew calculator that pureed cherries would be steeped.
I've heard that some have had problems with fruit floating in the beer, that because it's exposed it can grow nasty stuff on it. That disturbs me.
SWMBO has a bunch of cherries that she canned and froze. And that sounds better to me, but it seems as though you may need a lot of cherries (7-10 lbs). That seems a bit much to me. I believe that was with the dry hopping version.
Is steeping 3 lbs of pureed cherries enough? Will it give a cherry flavor?
I had come up with 4 lbs Bavarian wheat DME, 1 lb light DME, 3 lbs pureed cherries steeped, 1 oz Willametter, and WLP 320 in a 4.5 gal batch.
I've heard that some have had problems with fruit floating in the beer, that because it's exposed it can grow nasty stuff on it. That disturbs me.
SWMBO has a bunch of cherries that she canned and froze. And that sounds better to me, but it seems as though you may need a lot of cherries (7-10 lbs). That seems a bit much to me. I believe that was with the dry hopping version.
Is steeping 3 lbs of pureed cherries enough? Will it give a cherry flavor?
I had come up with 4 lbs Bavarian wheat DME, 1 lb light DME, 3 lbs pureed cherries steeped, 1 oz Willametter, and WLP 320 in a 4.5 gal batch.