Fruit beers and yeast rinsing.

[Joewalla88]

If I don't use a secondary for a fruit beer, and just dump the fruit into the primary fermenter, will I have any issues washing or reusing the yeast from that batch?

 

[flars]

I've never added fruit to a beer but found this blog article interesting about rinsing yeast from a fruit beer. Maybe there will be some useful information for you.
http://www.woodlandbrew.com/2013/01/yeast-washing-revisited.html

 

[Joewalla88]

Thanks, that does help. I also have a concern though about possible contamination that wouldnt show up in the beer, but may show up in the yeast after it's reused a few times. I was also curious if the introduction of simple sugars if going to screw with the evolution of the yeast enough to have detrimental effects on future batches.