Another fruit thread

[Blisster]

Hey all, I've got a question about adding fruit in the secondary.

We have a few fruit trees in our yard (apple, apricot and fig) and every year my wife cans a lot of the apricots, using a standard pressure canning technique that includes adding honey into the jar to help preserve the fuit.

I am planning on adding a few jars of last years apricots to a simple wheat beer by racking to a secondary. My questions are
A) How much fruit is enough vs too much? I'm not looking for a super fruity 'Apricot Ale', just a little bit of fruit essence.
B) is it okay for me to just dump the entire contents of the jar into the secondary - fruit, honey and all? Or should I remove the fruit and puree it first?

This is my first time doing a fruit addition so thanks in advance for any advice!

 

[Blisster]

Beuller?

 

[ColumbusAmongus]

Hey all, I've got a question about adding fruit in the secondary.

We have a few fruit trees in our yard (apple, apricot and fig) and every year my wife cans a lot of the apricots, using a standard pressure canning technique that includes adding honey into the jar to help preserve the fuit.

I am planning on adding a few jars of last years apricots to a simple wheat beer by racking to a secondary. My questions are
A) How much fruit is enough vs too much? I'm not looking for a super fruity 'Apricot Ale', just a little bit of fruit essence.
B) is it okay for me to just dump the entire contents of the jar into the secondary - fruit, honey and all? Or should I remove the fruit and puree it first?

This is my first time doing a fruit addition so thanks in advance for any advice!

I haven't used apricots before so I don't know how far they go. I like to keep my fruit subtle so that the grains still come through so for raspberries,I like to use 1 quart per 5 gal and it keeps the fruit balanced with the bready wheat flavor. I did 2 quarts once and felt it was too overshadowing. Apricots seem more subtle than raspberries so if you want an "essense" then 1 quart might do you right. You can always sample your secondary each day and rack it off if you think it gets too strong.

I would dump everything in as is so you aren't fumbling around and possibly introducing contamination. The honey apricot combo sounds really good actually. Mmmmm

 

[Blisster]

thanks for the input! I'll be transferring it this weekend and likely cold crashing/kegging next. I'll bump the thread in a few weeks when it has conditioned some with a report.