MB Girls & Boysenberries

[Root Skier]

Boysenberry ale has been racked to a makeshift secondary and added on top of the fruit purée.

[Root Skier]

I think this is going to need to condition a while. This is the first batch I bottle primed. It's actually kinda easier than batch priming. Here's the label.

[joechianti]

Cool. How long did you have it in the primary?

Sorry it took so long to respond. Been sidetracked once again. If I recall, I had it about 10 days in primary, 5 or 6 days in secondary with the can of pureed fruit, then a week of cold crashing. Bottled it yesterday. The trub, mostly fruit, was really well compacted on the bottom. There was no blue color at all to the beer, and a sample taste had no fruit flavor in it at all. I’m beginning to think all that fruit is a waste of time and money and will probably use extract at bottling time in the future.

[Root Skier]

Interesting. My beer had a blueish color. I couldn't taste much fruit, but I'm hoping that will devlop as it conditions.

I'm with you on the extract. Next time I'm making a fruit beer, that's how I'm going to do it.

[Root Skier]

This turned out pretty good. I might have liked a little more forward berry flavor, but it's nicely balanced. Kinda how Long Trail's Blackbeary Wheat is more present at the end.

[wollffy]

I'm doing my first ever fruit beer right now, and just happen to be using the boysenberries also. I decided to rack the beer from the primary LBK into a clean LBK and then add the can of fruit after pureeing it in a sanitized blender. I gave it a gentle stirring and plan to cold crash in about 5 to 7 days and then bottle. Then I harvested the yeast from the primary LBK, a process which I'm learning to love. Keep posting the progress of your batch and I'll post mine, too. I think we're pretty much doing it okay so far.

Could you elaborate on harvesting the yeast please?