Thanks for all the awesome advice on my fruit questions last week! I tasted the 100% brett brew and think it would be awesome with some orange or grapefruit addition. I want to add real fruit (thanks ryane!), so I was think 5ish pounds of grapefruit or mandarin oranges. Should I leave the skin on or not? Should I quarter the fruit? Thanks!
Oh and I still have this brew in the primary (added hops and oak after 2.5 weeks- now at week 3.5ish)- should i transfer to secondary when adding the fruit or just leave it in the primary and rack on secondary when i want to bottle (for clearing purposes)?
I brewed an orange wheat a little over a year ago. I used about 1.5 ounces of orange zest at flameout, then put another 1 ounce of vodka-soaked zest and 4 vanilla bean seeds into the secondary. The vanilla wasn't too noticeable but the orange was awesome and fresh. It wasn't overpowering. I'm wondering what the orange or grapefruit would do as a fruit addition. The zests have the aroma and flavors in a concentrated sort of oil based consistency. It worked out great. I'm trying to figure out how to do raspberry in a stout still. Good luck.
