MattD

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So, my old ale has been sitting in secondary for a few months now, and I'm trying to decide what to do with it. On the one hand, I could move it to a tertiary and let it bulk age for a while longer, at the risk of losing all my yeast and making the additional aging useless (not to mention making bottling a pest), or, I could go ahead and bottle it, and let it age in the bottle. This of course would give me the ability to taste it occasionally to see how it's coming along. My question to you guys is, what do you recommend? Here's the recipe:

9# light DME
1# Crystal 60L
.5# Flaked Barley
.25# Chocolate Malt
2# Brown Sugar
.5# Molasses
1 oz. Target (11%) 60 min.
1 oz. Cascade (5.5%) 20 min.
WLP570 Belgian Golden Ale (750ml starter)

Est. OG 1.102
Measured OG 1.080 (I think I didn't have it mixed well enough..)
Est. FG 1.021
Measured FG 1.010

Into 6.5 gal. Primary 9/15/06
Into 5 gal. Secondary 9/30/06 (although fermetation was still going slowly)
10/15/06 airlock has finally quit bubbling
and there it still sits.......

if nothing else, it should probably get off of the trub layer in my secondary...

dcbrewmeister

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I'd bottle it, sitting on the trub (too soon into secondary BTW) will do nothing helpfull. Let it age in the bottles for at least month (big beer, gonna take time to mellow).

magno

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I second that. Get it into bottles and taste it every so often.

david_42

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At 1.010 and six weeks without bubbles there is no reason to not bottle.

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