Chopped Strawberries???

[Texron]

Hello all. I am gearing up to brew the Strawberry Pizzaz recipee that was the group brew here sometime ago. I am going to be using Frozen Strawberries from the local grocery store and they are usually quiet large berries, I have a food processsor that would easily chop or puree the berries while still in a frozen state. I would then pour the results into a nylon bag for fermentation.

Would this be advisable, or beneficial? Or should I just thaw them and mash them up in the bag and then pour the result into a nylon bag for fermentation?

 

[bob1852]

either way will work. I've got 15lbs of fresh strawberries sitting in the freezer getting ready to make that recipe myself!

 

[Texron]

Do you plan to add all the strawberries for the initial fermentation? Or will you stagger the fruit additions?

 

[CuAllaidh]

I made a strawberry chocolate mead and I used a blender to chop the strawberries up (they were frozen) allowed them to thaw and added them straight to the fermentation bucket, I didn't bother with the nylon bag, currently the batch is aging on the strawberries still. Hopefully the result will be more strawberry flavour.