BeerBorg

We are considering adding some canned blueberries to our saison recipe for a Christmas present beer. I have a can of the Oregon brand in the pantry, it does not have preservatives and is in a light syrup. Just blueberries, water and sugar. 15 oz/425 grams. Sugars 22g

I don't want the Belle Saison yeast to tear through all the sugars and leave a sour or acidic flavor so I was wondering if I could add them as a dry hop type flavoring right before cold crashing.

But since there is sugar present I'm not sure how to figure out priming the beer.

Don't know so I turn to the

Oregon fruit is what Mr. Beer sells for their brews. Add them a week before you bottle. Add .25 to your ABV. Add normal sugar to the bottles/priming process.

My guess is if you add it right before cold crashing you will end up with bottle bombs unless you can calculate the sugar of the fruit to deduct from the priming sugar. I add at the end of primary fermentation when the yeast are a bit lazy so it leaves more fruit flavor behind and Im assuming more sugar.

Belle is a hungry bugger and have never tried with fruit so cant answer how she will behave but would be very interested in the results. Usually with a high attenuating yeast I tend to use an extract rather than real fruit.

I did a blueberry wheat a few years back and the way I went about it was to drain the syrup, rinse the berries then pureed them in a sanitized blender. I then added the berries straight into the fermenter. Note all of this was done 10 days into fermentation so initial fermentation was over. I let it go for another 7 days then bottled. My beer came out with a noticeable but not overpowering berry taste. If you want more berry flavor only leave them in for the last 4 or 5 days. And you will definitely want to cold crash if you do it the way I described. There will be a pretty good amount of particulates floating around in the beer if you don't. Let us know what happens...

Well they are still sitting in the pantry at the moment as we changed our minds on the Saison.

I'm sure they will find their way into a beer pretty soon though.

Thanks for all the info I'll still use it.