Sodium metabisulphite and yeast.

[mr x]

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....

[mr x]

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....

[GAM]

You could just over pitch and hope for the best.

Sandy

[mr x]

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

[Graham.C]

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

[CorneliusAlphonse]

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

[mr x]

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.