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   1. Fruit Decomposition in Secondary

      by naib, 8 years ago in Intermediate Brewing

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      I started a Belgian strong ale about two and a half months ago, it was a 5 gallon batch with ten pounds of sour cherries in the secondary. I was following the general intent of this link on kegerator . He said he left the fruit in secondary for two months to let your fruit have plenty of time to be eaten by the yeast . I don't know exactly what I expected, but the cherries all floated up to the top and have stayed there for eight weeks. I attached a picture, it looks exactly the same now as it...

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      I have done a few fruit beers, last one I did strawberries but I generally only leave the fruit in for a week or so, or until fermentation activity has stopped and gravity stabilized. I haven't done cherries, but strawberries definitely turn to mush after a week. I use a plastic bucket and a mesh bag to contain the fruit / control the debris. Perhaps because cherries have a 'skin' they don't decompose as much. The nice thing about the bucket and bag approach is that you can use a sanitized...
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      goulaigan
      8 years ago
   2. Advice on a botched brew

      by naib, 9 years ago in BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members

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      Hi everyone,
      
      I recently tried the Brooklyn Brew Shop Tea and Toast recipe from their 52 Seasonal Brews book. It's my third time brewing. Unfortunately, my thermometer was off by 20 degF so I spent most of my mash above 170 degF. My target gravity of ambient wort was 1.070. I hit 1.030. It was late and I wasn't thinking so I just put it in the fermenter and pitched and decided I would figure out what went wrong afterwards. I got a vigorous fermentation for about 48 hours and it's quieted down...

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      That's awesome. If it was drinkable at bottling it can only improve with conditioning :) And now the rest of us know what happens when you mash a beer at mashout temps, so thanks for that. Let us know how it tastes in a week or two!
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      goulaigan
      9 years ago

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