How many weeks should I leave them in?

[Poormanfarm]

I have ordered 5 gourmet vanilla beans that I have opted to flavor my 5 gal of blackberry wine. I know that everything is based according to personal taste but generally speaking, how long should I leave the beans in the carboy? Are we talking about days, weeks or months? Any ideas on where a good "rule of thumb" might be? Thanks for your imput.

 

[Julie]

I would go with weeks. Try it for 4 weeks and taste, if more flavor is needed than leave it for 2 weeks and try it again. When using oak it takes about 6 weeks, same with chocolate so I would think the same would apply to the vanilla beans.