Primary Only - Fruit Extract and Priming Sugar Questions

[cheezemm]

Ok, so I'm making a beer for all the WOMAN (as in one, WIFE!) in my life and I had a question. I almost exclusively primary ferment for ~14-21 days before bottling with carbonation drops etc. Low and behold this fruity beer requires the extract to be mixed in to a secondardy.

I do not have a secondary or bottling bucket (have coopers fermentor with nozzle/spigot). If I'm going to have to stir in the fruit extract, should I do it a day before bottling to let the trub settle back down!?! Can I get away with stirring it in very gently before bottling time? So many questions, and no beer!

I do not have room for the secondary so that option is out. Ideally, I think I'm going to try to stir in the extract and priming sugar gently and bottle from there. If I do stir things up, it should settle in the bottle conditioning period anyhow, no?

 

[Pappers_]

With the caveat that I'm not familiar with the Coopers fermentor, I think I would:

1. Wait until I was sure fermentation was done
2. Add the fruit extract. If the extract has sugar in it, it will kick off fermentation again. Let it continue until its finished. If it doesn't have sugar, then wait for the beer to clear again.
3. Bottle as you normally would.

 

[ACbrewer]

Stirring gently and wait a day or two is probably your best option. I wouldn't worry about it restarting fermentation unless the instructions said to let it sit for a while. Your beer might be a little cloudy depending on how gentle the stir and how long the wait post stir
I did something like this but it was a wheat beer so I only waited a couple of hours.