Fruit in my bottles

[mikecshultz]

Hey all,
I bottled a raspberry cream ale yesterday. I used frozen raspberries, thawed and added to the secondary. I then waited until any sugar from the raspberries was fermented. When I finished bottling I noticed that some of the bottles had little pieces of fruit in them (they must have snuck through my bottling wand). Should I be worried about any kind of bacteria or other infection from the fruit that is in the bottles? Also, will the fruit drop out of the beer when I cold crash the bottles? Any other problems people can think of that this may cause? Any help you all can give wold be much appreciated. Thanks all!

 

[jmp781]

Nothing to worry about. I've brewed two raspberry ales and this has happened as well. The freezer would have killed most of the bacteria and the alcohol should have gotten the rest. As long as you maintained sterile bottling techniques I would not think twice.

 

[Beernik]

File this under "small risk":

I had a blueberry wheat that got blueberry pieces in the bottles. Of the 30 or so bottles, one ended up with enough blueberry pieces in it to overcarb. When I opened the bottle, the cap rocketed off and hit me in the head and beer shot up to the ceiling.

The bigger problem was blueberry pieces got stuck in my bottling wand and I had to replace it.