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I am working on a wheat beer, and am thinking maybe a lime coconut version. I was looking at coconut water for flavour, but the one can I picked up said it contained sodium metabisulphite. Can anybody guess if there would be enough in 2 500ml cans to kill the yeast in a 5 gallon batch (which I don't want to do).

I might take one can and hit it with some yeast to see what happens, there's 36 grams of sugar per can. But in the meantime, interested in opinions....

Bleh, I'm throwing in some Fleichmanns now. This stuff is horribly sweet.

Edit: I guess that wouldn't work, I assume they put enough in the can to kill yeast. It would need to be diluted....

You could just over pitch and hope for the best.

Sandy

The beer is already brewed. I was going to add the coconut water in the keg, and let the sugar prime the keg.

Have you tried an organic store or health food store, they might have a coconut water without the preservatives.

mgc wrote:Have you tried an organic store or health food store, they might have a coconut water without the preservatives.

or even real coconuts. but on second though, it would probably take a dozen of em to get a litre of coconut water, haha

I will look once I'm back in the city for some other sources. I thought about dry hopping with real coconut, but the water seemed too easy.