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Ah, I get you; hadn't quite cottoned to the idea that the drops are added to existing bottles! That will be an interesting experiment if I get the chance to do it. Good advice :)

I ended up introducing 2kg of frozen (and then thawed) raspberries in a grain bag to the primary on day 8, with 100g of lactose dissolved in water. By this point the SG (which started at 1042) had bottomed out at 1013 so I assume that it had fermented out. A taste-test on day 11 revealed it to...

Thanks so much for all the advice guys! Lots of useful ideas and procedures here. I think fermenting out (or at least giving it a week) and putting the wort onto the raspberries (in a grain sack) in the secondary will be the go for me this time: I've got a Pale Ale in my fermentation fridge at...

Thanks for the link! Good advice; maybe I'll go for two weeks in the secondary before I rack to a tertiary. Also wondering about throwing some lactose in when it comes off the raspberries if it's a bit tart for my wife's liking . . .

Hello all, I'm just starting out at brewing, and yesterday I put down a kit and kilo wheat beer that I'm going to make into a raspberry wheat. I've looked at a number of recipes/posts on here and other brewing sites, but I can't decide when it's best to add the raspberries, how many racking...