apricots in primary or secondary?

[Sepanik1986]

Hi all, I brewed an ale the other day and was wondering (by your experiences) if I should put some apricots in my primary after high krausen, or in the secondary. The recipe also calls for 2.5 ounces dry hops. Should I cut that down to an ounce to really pull out the flavor of the fruit?

 

[danath34]

if it were me, I would do both the apricots and hops in secondary. and I think you're on to something about cutting down the hops.

 

[Sepanik1986]

I think I'm going to try blanching the fruit and putting that in a sanitized grain bag, then after a week of that being in there I'll add the an ounce of hops for a week to prevent the flavor/aroma from being scrubbed out. Sound like a good idea?

 

[drthrob]

Puree the apricots before pouring beer over them in secondary.


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[drthrob]

Well, racking, rather.


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[Iceman2197]

I made an apricot blonde last year and couldn't find fresh apricots, so I used dried apricot and diced and boiled to sanitize, added to primary after about 2 weeks and fermentation was complete. Turned out excellent with great apricot flavor. Everyone loved it.

 

[dudius]

Puree the apricots before pouring beer over them in secondary.


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This is what I would do. The alcohol will usually kill the small amount of bacteria on the fruit as long as you wash it and use a well-cleaned food processor or blender. And if you're worried, I guess you could put a little vodka in it for good measure.