First fruit beer question

[Patirck]

OK - this is my first fruit beer (fourth beer altogether). I brewed a batch loosley following a fruit beer base recipe. It is mostly Belgian pils and vienna malt with a wyeast saison. One thing led to another (my second AG brew) and I ended up with a little over 4 gallons post boil. I was planning on adding pomegranate juice (about 1.5 gallons) but I'm not sure if I should just pour this on top of the primary (in an ale pail) or if I need to put it in seperate fermenter. If I do the seperate fermenter, should I add the juice first and then put the beer on top? Should I try to mix it?

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Rack to secondary: add the juice, add the beer on top.

 

[cptnthompson]

Im also about to add pomegranate juice to my beer. I'm adding it to my secondary tonight. How much juice did you end up using?

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

I used real fruit so I don't really have answer to how much juice to use. I used 8 lbs of strawberries though if that helps. My point above was to add the juice first, then rack onto it so it mixes up well.

 

[Patirck]

I'm drinking the pom saison now. I don't think I would do this again or at least I wouldn't use Saison yeast for this. I used two of the large pom bottles from costco - 64 oz each for a total of 128 oz. This was added to about 4.5 gallons and secondaried for two weeks. I don't taste much pom - just a bit of the bitterness.

I may work much better in a lighter american wheat - I think my fruit base was a bit strong and flavorfull - it would have been pretty nice on it's own.