In preparation of Spring...

[nochew]

(this is a personal copy of a post I made in the homebrewing community. perhaps someone will be kind enough to remind me how to crosspost?)

Comments

[skarsol]

Boiling will kill most of the flavor. Take the time to rinse, halve, pit, and reserve the juice?

[nochew]

Yeah, simple prep at best. I think we're just going to rinse and toss. We've already poured out the juice; just want to let the cherries themselves at their flavor. If needed, we'll top it off with cherry extract at kegging time. Oh, and yes, we're kegging now :D

[skarsol]

By reserve the juice I meant whatever comes out when you halve/pit them, not whatever they came in. :)

[nochew]

ahh, how astute. fortunately, we purchased them pitted and canned, so there's no need to go through extra trouble. We froze them in order to burst the cell walls so that as much juice and flavor as possible is extracted into the beer

[skarsol]

Pitted and canned? Bah, if you're going through all the trouble to make your own beer, why buy processed fruit? :) Specially since you lose a lot of control over sugar content and such I would assume?

Might wanna try adding some almond flavor to it too.