Questions about adding cherries

[aaronanddelania]

I know there are a lot of threads about adding fruit to beer, and that is why I am so confused. We are trying t make a cherry wheat with frozen cherries. We do not currently have a secondary fermenter.
First off, our LHBS told us just to add the fruit to the primary fermenter before pitching yeast. Websites have said to add it to the wort 5 minutes before the boil is over, to add it after the boil but before the chill, and to boil it the whole time. Any advice?

 

[daksin]

There's just differing opinions on how to do it- all of them will work! Boiling will extract some sugar and flavor, but could likely cause pectin haze. Since you don't have a secondary, personally, I would add the cherries directly to your primary vessel an 5 days after primary fermentation has completed. The yeast will get back to work fermenting the sugar in the cherries, so you should wait another 5 days after that's finished to package your beer.

 

[aaronanddelania]

Thanks for the advice. That was the path we were leaning towards. There are so many methods out there.