Yes, the mighty Joe himself steps down from the heavens and smites your brew...
Kidding.
But it's a tried and true thing, start with the true recipe once, then go ahead and start mucking with it.
Or ask someone who's mucked with it a lot. (Hi! I think I qualify!) Mash the fruit to break the berries. Stick to 3.5 lb honey per gal and use the bread yeast, those are the two most important things that keep it a JAO variant, the next most important is to make sure there's enough acidity to balance things, if your fruit's not terribly acidic, add juice from half a lemon, that should do it without affecting the flavour, if it's not got enough acidity it's just way too syrupy sweet... Leave the fruit till it sinks and it clears up (usually happens one within a week or two of the other), that's how you know you're done your JAO variant and it's time to bottle (or rack).
Racking it might stall it early or cause you not to get the full flavour of the ingredients. The point at which the fruit sinks and it clears up on its own and the instructions say to bottle it? This is when you can rack it without calling down Joe's vengeance. He'll never know if you rack it and let things settle out for a week before bottling if it's after the point at which the recipe says to bottle it. Or at least he's never noticed when I've done that.
Hope it goes well and there's at least a hint of blueberry flavour to the end product!
