as someone else mentioned, I'd recommend adding any fresh fruit to secondary. Primary fermentation can be very vigorous and the addition of the sugar from the fresh fruit will almost certainly cause your brew to foam up and blow off your airlock. I made this mistake early on in my brewing...
Thanks for the advice. I'm sure you are right about the bitterness of the orange peel. I bet a pure orange extract would work well? A friend of mine made elderberry mead and he put the whole stems and berries in primary and the resulting bitterness was not pleasant.
This is a very Unique recipe that I created. It is unlike any traditional tasting mead or cider, but it is quite good I can assure that (since I drank the whole gallon and have to make a new batch....).
Apple Cyser 1 gallon batch
Ingredients
1 gallon preservative free apple cider (Apple...
I have never added Orange flavor to any of my meads, but I'm getting ready to try a small 1 gallon methaglin with orange and fresh rosemary, because brewing with orange seems to be widely popular. It seems like a whole orange per gallon sliced up and added to secondary is the way to go based on...