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My friend is dropping off some yellow plums from his tree this evening. I'm thinking of trying a small batch of plum beer. Any suggestions for a recipe type?

Grill them first and put them in a mild ale?

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dubbel might work

Got a primary fermenter full of yellow plums to work with. I like that idea of grilling them for a smoky flavour.

The beer is fermenting and I am going to smoke the plums in the next few days. Trying to figure out how to best pit and skin them and add them to the carboy in a sanitary way before racking the beer on them.

Should I add pectin enzyme too?

Smokin' these plums tonight. Still trying to figure out the best way to add them to carboy before racking the beer on them. I went with an 'old ale' type recipe for the beer and am doing a full 23L size batch.

Racked the beer on to the smoked plum mash tonight with a dry hop Fuggles addition. The smoked plums tastes real tasty. Drew off some beer because of the volume of the fruit and the beer itself tastes quite nice already. Can't wait to find out how the two parts come together.

As an update: The plum flavour came through well and goes quite nice with the old ale style base. Pretty much all the smoked flavour that was in the plum mash when I added it to the fermenter (1 week into fermenting the beer) was lost. This was my first fruit beer and I didn't use a good method (cheese cloth bag?) to separate the fruit pulp so some of the bottles have some extra fibre.