I brewed an Irish Stout 5 weeks ago. I racked it into secondary about 3 weeks ago with some coffee beans. I wanted to bottle it this weekend but had a pipe burst and flood my living room. Now my next 2 weekends are taken up by me playing Handy Manny. Do I need to bottle it asap or will it be ok with 2 more weeks in secondary. I'm a little worried autolysis will set in but it IS in secondary.
First autolysis is one of those boogeymen for the homebrewer, it really isn't a concern to us, in fact many of us no longer secondary and opt instead for a month long primary (THere's thousands of threads discussing it on here) and folks have left their beer in PRIMARY for 6 months with no signs of autolysis, so don't worry about it,
Especially since you secondaried....many of our beers lager or sit in secondary for up to a year or more....So again don't worry.
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If it's in secondary, you have a very long time that you can let it sit before worrying. Like a year, at least! It'll be fine where it is until you can get a chance to bottle it.
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