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08-09-2010, 04:58 PM
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When moving to a secondary, do you add priming sugar...
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to the secondary vessel, or do you wait until you bottle/keg to add the priming sugar?
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08-09-2010, 05:00 PM
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Wait till you bottle.
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08-09-2010, 05:05 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 509inc
Wait till you bottle.
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ok. will my bottles have less, or no yeast in the bottom when using a secondary fermentation |
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08-09-2010, 05:07 PM
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Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Boyd
ok. will my bottles have less, or no yeast in the bottom when using a secondary fermentation
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There will be plenty of yeast to do the job if even if you've secondaried for nearly a year. OR if you opt to skip secondary altogether and do what many of us do and leave our beer in primary for a month.
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/secondary-not-john-palmer-jamil-zainasheff-weigh-176837/
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08-09-2010, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Revvy
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I'm mainly asking because I'm wondering how to get the yeast cake from forming in the bottom 1/8" of the bottle. Will a secondary vessel eliminate this from forming, or can I help to eliminate this by leaving it in the primary for longer? |
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08-09-2010, 05:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Boyd
I'm mainly asking because I'm wondering how to get the yeast cake from forming in the bottom 1/8" of the bottle. Will a secondary vessel eliminate this from forming, or can I help to eliminate this by leaving it in the primary for longer?
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If your bottle conditioning with priming sugar, I don't think there is a way around this. |
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08-09-2010, 05:20 PM
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You will always have some sediment in bottle conditioned beers. It's really no big deal. You also have it in many commercial micro brews (in fact many of us harvest that yeast)
Read this... http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/filter-183812/#post2128262
ANd also my posts in the Jamil thread. I primary for a month, and do nothing else, and I have very little sediment in my beers.
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08-09-2010, 05:20 PM
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so how do large breweries avoid the yeast cake from forming in the bottle?
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08-09-2010, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Boyd
so how do large breweries avoid the yeast cake from forming in the bottle?
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They filter and/or pasteurize the beer, then use pure CO2 to pressure-carb the bottles. Many homebrewers also keg and pressure-carb, though few if any bother to filter or pasteurize. If having a very slight sediment in your bottles bothers you (it could hardly be called a yeast cake), then go with a keg setup.
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08-09-2010, 05:25 PM
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They do not bottle condition to carbonate. The beer is pasteurized and filtered and carbonated while bottling.
edit - wow frazier - same post same time... lol
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