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I have a hefeweizen fermenting in a plastic bucket for two weeks now. is it ok to leave it like this for 4 weeks?

I don't have any glass carboys free at the moment...

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MattHollingsworth

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If it's done fermenting, you can just bottle it now. Why leave it for four weeks?

I just did a Hefeweizen and it was totally done and kegged at 16 days. Tastes great. Can't comment on the 4 weeks thing with a Weissbier yeast though as I haven't tried it.

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I'm asking this because I will not have time to bottle next week because I am leaving for couple of days... This means that I can bottle in two weeks, which means the beer will sit on the yeast for 4 weeks....

what I could do is to rack to another plastic bucket just to get it off of the yeast...

I think that it's in terminal phase of fermentation, still have some bubbles in the airlock and the sample today measures 1.012. I don't think it will go lower than this......

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KAMMEE

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You could rack into your bottling bucket and treat that as a secondary, then you're one step closer to bottling when you do get around to it.

Brocster

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you'll be fine

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