colour comparison - wheat and cherry wheat

[grubac]

Gentlemen,

A while back I made a wheat beer and fermented it in two seperate carboys. I then racked one of them onto 4.5kg of ripe, dark cherries. See the result in the attached photo.

I'm fairly satisfied with the result, however, I must say that cherry wheat's scent tends to remind me of wine, even though the taste is more beer-ish. When added to the cherries the beer obviously did start fermenting again, but very little.

If anyone has any bright ideas on how to avoid this reactivation of the suspended yeast, please let me know. I believe, at least, that the wine aroma is attributed to cherry fermentation.

cheers

grubac

[steve_flack]

You'd added fermentable sugars so the yeast will wake up again. This is actually what most people that make cherry beers want to happen. To stop it you have to kill or remove the yeast.