Purée for F2 instead of fruit chunks?

[brewdon]

I often hear that puréed fruit is better to use for F2 than chunks, and I notice people saying using the chunks is “for beginners” so I attempted making a dragon fruit/peach purée (blended the fruit with some of the kombucha)

This is how all of the bottles came out, and I’m left wondering why anyone would prefer their bottles to be like this. It made me lose a considerable amount of kombucha into this foamy substance.

With fruit chunks I still got great flavor and was was not left with such residue, and was even able to enjoy eating the fruit chunks after done with the bottles.

I would like to know exactly why anyone really prefers this over fruit chunks?


P.S the finished product did come out great, but wouldn’t use dragon fruit again due to its very mild taste, maybe will use it for its cool color in the future with more flavorful fruits as peach is pretty subtle as well.

 

[RudeBooch]

Whoever said that using fruit chunks is "for beginners" is an idiot. I use dry fruit for mine and brew in a big of a higher scale.

 

[brewdon]

Whoever said that using fruit chunks is "for beginners" is an idiot. I use dry fruit for mine and brew in a big of a higher scale.

Nice! Using dry fruit is interesting and sounds so clean. Do you buy the fruits dry already or dry them yourself?

 

[RudeBooch]

Nice! Using dry fruit is interesting and sounds so clean. Do you buy the fruits dry already or dry them yourself?

I buy them in bulk from a few vendors I have. I buy them in pounds. I don’t think I have the patience to watch them dehydrate for 24 hrs. Haha. Bella Viva Orchards is a good one and one of my main ones.

 

[brewdon]

I buy them in bulk from a few vendors I have. I buy them in pounds. I don’t think I have the patience to watch them dehydrate for 24 hrs. Haha. Bella Viva Orchards is a good one and one of my main ones.

Thanks for sharing. What’s your favorite recipe?