Flavor Addition

[Petho]

Hello, I have searched the forum however I can't find the exact information that I am looking for.
I am looking to brew a Strawberry Wheat beer, extract style, and I am curious about how and when to add the flavoring. They sell some 4oz containers of liquid flavorings and that is what I am looking to use. I am thinking about adding the flavor to the bottling bucket, I brew 5 gallon batches.
Question is that I have read that I could get bottle bombs if too much sugar is added. Should I reduce the amount of priming sugar?
Question is how much of the additive should I add?

I know these are generic questions but I am hoping that someone might have done this before and has some experience.

Thanks!

 

[crash1292]

well as far as the flavoring add to the bucket before bottling.
you could take 12oz of beer and measure and add the flavoring till its the flavor your after,then calculate how much to add for the bucket

 

[Calder]

4 ozs should be about right for 5 gallons. I believe it is unfermentable. Go check on it. If it's unfermentable, just bottle as normal and add this with the priming sugar in the bucket.

 

[RM-MN]

I tried this by splitting a batch of cream ale and putting blueberry extract into half of it. The instructions on the bottle of extract suggested using 1/2 of the bottle for the 5 gallon batch so I split this down and used 1/4 for the 2 1/2 gallons. I found that the blueberry flavor was so light as to not be detectable and the aroma was pretty hard to detect too. What I did get was an unwanted bite on the tongue that wasn't there with the half batch that didn't have the extract in it. Your extract may not give the same effect or it may not bother you as much as it did me.

 

[Petho]

Thanks for the replies. This is my first attempt at flavoring so you can imagine that I am a bit concerned. Maybe I will bottle half of the brew then add the flavoring for the second half of the brew and see how it tastes. I like my wheat beer however a little flavor would be interesting. I guess experimenting is half of the fun!

 

[RM-MN]

I guess experimenting is half of the fun!

That's what I think too. BTW, I also split a batch of red ale with half getting the blueberry extract and got the same bite on the tongue with that half of the batch. Without that experiment, I wouldn't have known.