Dried or fresh fruit is awesome in your brew, especially if you are brewing a light beer, it gives you aromas that you normally wont get in those beers and adds complexity. You don't want to do it for everything, you certainly don't want to over do this, but adding fruit can be a good thing. As with any beer, sanitation is a MUST, so precautions should be taken with the fruit. If you are planning to use dried fruit, it's a good idea to get it as fresh as you can from your local whole foods store or something, they will not be the cheapest, but they will likely be the freshest. If using normal fruit, try to pick it up from a local farm, if you can't then once again, whole foods place or a farmer's market is your best bet. Thoroughly clean the fruit and cut it up. Lastly, you are generally adding fruit at the end stage of the boil, generally between 10-5 minutes to the end, generally a the gentler flavors will go in towards the end, like berries, and boiling wart is a pretty good sanitizer as well, so as long as you are not introducing the fruit after the boil, you should be OK. Also some fruit, mainly berries, you should strain out the solids when you are putting it in your primary
I'm working out some kinks i had with that particular project. I will be making some more honey-based drinks over the summer, next honey-based project in line is waiting for first local raspberries, making a raspberry wine with honey (lots of raspberries, some honey, a couple of spices, mmmmm). I did learn good lessons from my first attempt, namely, its a good idea to keep the gravity in the sane zone... Super high gravity != fun.
As for gravity for this batch, it's going to end up in 1.015 range somewhere (probably wont be 1.010 like what you are looking for for lighter beer). For alcohol content, it's likely somewhere around 4-5% mark, pretty much on the dime for a porter
Not sure what i am making next... thinking maybe a triple chocolate stout or chocolate-coffee stout in the 6-7% mark, or maybe something very lite, like a proper berliner weiss (a very sour wheat beer 2-3% per volume, meant to be drank with a syrup of some sort)
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