Fruit

Introduction

Adding fruit to beer can enhance a beer ot completely change its taste. While a balanced fruit beer should not change the basic taste of the original beer – after all if you wanted a powerful and overwhelming fruit taste you might as well brew a cider. Even when done properly, the beer can vary widely in taste and potency.

Beer-Friendly Fruit

There are no fast rules about adding fruit to beer. Fruit flavors can be added fresh, frozen, cooked, smoked, pureed, juiced, zested, and even added as an extract. Also adding fruits in different stages of the brewing process can greatly affect the flavor.

Methods

• Fresh Fruit - While fresh fruit sounds good in theory, fresh fruit is VERY dirty and can carry unwanted microbes into your brew.
• Adding to Mash - Some rare recipes will call for adding fruit to the top of the MLT when sparaging. The drawback is that the acids from the fruit could pull unwanted flavors out of your grains.
• Boiling - Only a few fruits are good for boiling

Fruit

Apple

This can be added to a beer at any stage in the brewing process. A lot of only recipes call for apple juice to be addded into the wort cools. However since the flavor is so mild adding to secondary furmentation will produce stronger outcome.

Apricot

This flavor is very subtle and almost non-existant. For tronger flavors

Banana

(wells Banana Bread Beer)