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Old 01-24-2008, 12:02 PM   #11
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You don't want to rack it and then leave it for a day! You want to rack it and bottle immediately. There are a couple of reasons- one is that you're adding priming sugar which will carbonate your beer. If you add the sugar and don't bottle, the yeast will eat some of that sugar while in the bucket and you will not have carbonation in your bottles. Two, you don't want to aerate your beer. Each time you rack, you expose your beer to oxygen. This is minimal if you rack carefully, but you want to get it into bottles ASAP once you put it in your bottling bucket.

If it was me, I would gently stir in the priming solution with a long sanitized spoon without splashing and bottle that beer.


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well, I ended up racking it to another bucket onto the sugar. I don't think there was much splashing, I was as careful as I could be.

It turned out to be pretty decent! Not much character to it, and maltier than I expected, but I've enjoyed drinking it for sure. I left the bottles alone for almost three weeks before I started in on them, and I've got 5 left now.

Thanks for the advice guys!


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