I'm making a Raspberry Wheat and to date I've always used fresh or fresh frozen fruit in secondary for my fruit flavored beers. This time for simplicity I decided to use some ID Carlson Raspberry fruit flavoring. I'd assume that it should be added to secondary for the fullest effect but I know what happens when we assume things. What's been your experience using the ID Carlson stuff and how did you use it? Any horror stories?
Raspberry Wheat Question...
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I've never used it personally but I've heard that fruit extracts, especially raspberry, can have an obvious chemical/artificial taste to them.
SwAMi75
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Howdy HD! Never used it before, but most add it to secondary or at bottling/kegging.
Brew-boy
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I am doing a Peach wheat and it said to add the flavorings to the bottling bucket.
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I've used both flavors and do not recommend them.
To my tastes they taste soapy.
No more fake flavors for me.
To my tastes they taste soapy.
No more fake flavors for me.
Thanks for the help y'all. The consensus I'm getting here and on other boards is add it the bottling bucket. Somebody also mentioned that McCormick makes an all natural Raspberry extract that they were very pleased with over the Carlson offering.
SBN
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Hey Humdum - welcome over to this side! I've been told that Carlson gets a little cough-syruppy - I've used McCormick's raspberry right into the bottling bucket with tasty success....
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