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I picked up 4 kg (a tray) and ate a half kg punnet with friends, I have 3.5kg in the freezer for a strawberry wheat beer.
They are half decent strawberries too.

Dan

how did you brew go?

Funny you should bring that up.

They are still in the freezer. BUT my last brew was to get these out of the freezer for SWMBO's convenience. I have ended up doing a kind of UKish blonde ale with Maris Otter, LDME, Target hops and US05, and I am currently waiting for the krausen to die down before I rack to the strawberries.

I am not expecting it to be anything mind blowing, but they are in good nick still, and it should be at least girlie, red and drinkable.

I have kept the hops to one bittering addition to about 12 or so IBU. If it tastes watery at rack, I may add a little sugar to up the alc a little.

I just racked this tonight to strawberries after a week or so (dubious book keeping here) cold conditioning with gelatine for finings. I tried to be certain to pasteurise the strawberries after so long in the freezer.. ended up kinda slow-cooking them a bit while I ate dinner. I pitched a re-hydrated 12 pack of Swiss Lager from Ross that I had sitting around looking for a use, so now I have it at 10 degrees as a lager... I also figured that this wouldn't 'scrub' out the fruit flavour with C02 being released at a higher temp.

I had a pint or so to give it some headspace (that was my excuse anyway) and it is really bloody tasty and clean not unlike a US Wheat. Not my preferred style, but I plan on high carbonation and I think it will be a hit with the girl.

I am drinking this as I write.

It is good, the malt and hops are very soft and the carb is high, which accentuates the strawberry.
It is strange tasting strawberry without the sugar, it kinda puts it into a different realm of taste, more like a crisp salad veg, but with a fruity aroma.

The racking was an absolute pain in the a hole, I tried many times to syphon and ended up using the tap with a short piece of vinyl racking cane. There were some straberries that floated and some that sank, and many in-between. I bulk prime, so I left it there for a good while to settle, and bottling went smooth until the last one.

This beer is slightly pink, but totally opaque with pectin haze.

All in all I am stoked because it tastes very clean. I am unsure about the girl's thoughts though.