northernltz
Active Member
Well, I may have screwed this batch up. I made a light ale with 6# LME and 1 - 1/2 Lbs grains and fermented it for 21 days. I wanted to make a strawberry blonde, so I put a can of strawberry wine starter (Whole and cut strawberries in juice) on the bottom of the secondary and racked the beer onto them. Now, I was told that the berries will have sugars, so I needed to continue the ferment in the secondary. The advice I got was to aerate the beer as it went in, so I used a funnel and let the beer swirl down the funnel and drop onto the berries. Of course this added air. The second spot of advice I got was that to help "clear" the beer, I needed to be careful not to pull the sediment from the bottom of the primary when I racked. So, as I racked the beer to the secondary, I limited the particulates from hops from transferring by keeping my transfer tube off the bottom 2 - 3 inches of the primary. I have let this sit for 1 week in the secondary so far.
Now, I begin reading here on HBT, that I may have oxidized the beer, and not transferred any of the dormant yeast. I have what looks like foam on the top of the secondary, but it is also a lot of berries and "pulp" so I am not sure of the fermentation. My goal was 2 weeks in the secondary and bottle. If I didn't get enough yeast, will it carbonate at all?
Anyone have any thoughts on this? If I did oxidize the beer, what will that do?
Kurt
Now, I begin reading here on HBT, that I may have oxidized the beer, and not transferred any of the dormant yeast. I have what looks like foam on the top of the secondary, but it is also a lot of berries and "pulp" so I am not sure of the fermentation. My goal was 2 weeks in the secondary and bottle. If I didn't get enough yeast, will it carbonate at all?
Anyone have any thoughts on this? If I did oxidize the beer, what will that do?
Kurt