Hi there, sorry for resurrecting and hijacking this thread but I realised I am now coming to the end of the primary and havent really thought this through. Now I have been googling and reading about blanching, pasteurising, santising the fruit etc. Initially I was just going to thaw it and dump it loose in the FV. Then I thought about using a hop bag and now I am considering whether to sanitise it in someway?
@Horners when you say you banged yours in do you mean no treating the fruit first as well, just open the FV and pour the berries in? I am inclined to just do that but I don't want to ruin a brew through laziness.
To be fair I was using frozen raspberries from Lidl. I did start to try and bring them up to pasteurisation temperature in a pan but it all felt like it was turning into jam and I had chosen much too small a pan so it made stirring them all a bit tricky such that second half of raspberries pretty much went in untreated.