Fruit Beer Question

[tintin]

About to try a raspberry beer and had a question about de-bugging the fruit. After reading a lot of posts it seems better to put the fruit into a secondary, and a waste in the initial boil or primary. I was going to use about 60g/l so for 22l that would be 1.3kg. I was going to put the fruit into several hop socks and then steam the socks and fruit together for 10 minutes before adding to secondary. Does this sound ok?

Here's the recipe I put together (partial mash)

1 kg pils
1 kg vienna
250 g wheat
250 g light crystal

60 min mash at 65 deg

1.7 kg extra light LME

Saaz hops

Whitelabs Burton Ale yeast or Safale S 04.

Thanks for any advice

 

[Airgead]

About to try a raspberry beer and had a question about de-bugging the fruit. After reading a lot of posts it seems better to put the fruit into a secondary, and a waste in the initial boil or primary. I was going to use about 60g/l so for 22l that would be 1.3kg. I was going to put the fruit into several hop socks and then steam the socks and fruit together for 10 minutes before adding to secondary. Does this sound ok?

Tintin

The only problem will be that the fruit will end up tasting cooked. this is fine if thats the flavour you want but not so goof if its the fresh flavour you are after.

For my rasberry beer I use frozen fruit. The freezing will help with sanitising the fruit a little bit. I add to the scecondary so there is already alcohol there to help supress other bugs. If I'm feeling paranoid I will rinse the fruit with something like iodophor which will remove any surface bugs. Most of the time I just chuck it in and it seems to be OK.

Cheers
Dave

 

[tintin]

Sorry, I forgot to say I am going to use frozen berries...