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The Mad Fermentationist’s Practical Guide to Brewing with Fruit (Audio)

If you'd like to watch the video, head to this link: https://beerandbrewing.com/video-course-sapwood-sours-fruit/

During the 78-minute video course, Tonsmeire covers:

choosing the form of fruit, from aseptic purees to whole and fresh-picked sourcing, selecting and blending different fruits tips on efficient zesting of citrus fruit cleaning and processing whole fruit for safe use, free of off-flavors managing the sugars in fruit and how they affect fermentations adjusting acidity to accentuate fruit and achieve balance safely packaging fruit beer with unfermented sugar using particular hop varieties to accentuate certain fruits sourcing, handling, and processing fresh fruit for mixed-fermentation beers distinguishing your beer with unusual and foraged fruits and botanicals evaluating fruit and adding it to barrel-aged beers unusual barrels that can add or complement fruit flavors