Getting Ready To Bottle First Fruit Beer

[JeffoC6]

Hey all...

I'm planning on bottling my raspberry wheat this coming Tuesday. I fermented the wheat beer with S-05 to allow for the raspberry to shine through. Fermentation took 1 week and then I racked over the raspberries for 2 more weeks. I looked at my fermenter this morning (1-gallon glass carboy) and see that the raspberries are still hanging around the neck of the carboy. I put it in the fridge to cold crash, assuming that the raspberries will also drop so I can bottle overtop them. Does anyone have any experience with this? Will the raspberries settle to the bottom from cold crashing? Or will they remain where they are, up around the neck of the carboy? If so, I'm assuming I just rack to my bottling jug underneath the raspberries, or over, regardless, right?

Jeff

 

[JeffoC6]

Wow, 2 hours later and nobody has any suggestions on this? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Rascal]

Wish I could help you but I don't have much experience with it. I just bottled a strawberry wheat. I had added the strawberries to the secondary in a sanitized linen bag. There was still some strawberry pieces that came out of the bag so I just tried to rack around them.

 

[JeffoC6]

bump.

 

[lafolielapper]

just rack from under...if you can, sanitize a nylon or grain bag and place it over the end of the siphon. I always end up with a little "junk" in my keg when I rack my strawberry wheats, but then again, I don't filter, just shove the siphon right in.