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My thought was also that if I rack the beer off the yeast and hops and then let the remaining sediment fall out of suspension, there will be much less sediment that makes it into the bottling bucket ....I don't know maybe I'm overthinking the whole thing. I could just cold condition longer to...

It's not so much that racking to a secondary vessel would increase the inactive yeast (notice I've taken the previous posts and edited my verbiage😎) fall out, but rather allow more time for the sediment to fall out of suspension with out the wort sitting on the yeast and hops, but I'm...

I brew mostly hop head IPA's at about 10% abv

Interesting. I always see extra grub on the bottom of the secondary fermenter, but I do cold condition for two weeks to allow the proteins to bind and settle out, so maybe I'm secondary fermenting in vain

I thought a secondary fermentation allows more of the dead yeast to fall out of suspension.. Is that not the case?

Hmm I thought secondary fermenting allows more dead yeast to fall out of suspension, is this not the case?

Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of extended secondary fermenting? I condition in the secondary fermenter for 3 weeks give or take. I have had some say that anything over a week is unnecessary, and actually detrimental to the beer. Can anyone add their thoughts on secondary fermentation

Ok. That makes me feel a lot better. Thanks everyone! People are so quick to respond here. It's great.

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Here's the problem. I pitched my yeast three days ago. I come home from work today to find that my 4 year old pushed a chair up to the counter and pouched on the lid and pushed out all the co2 in the bucket. Can anyone tell me what to expect, or if I should just dump the batch? I assume I am...

Tomorrow is brew day. 19 lb grain bill, I'm going to try to make another batch off the same grain bill. Should I skip the sparge step and just add extra water to get my volume of first runnings? Then re-strike the second batch? I have my own thoughts, I would just like to see what others have to...

Would it have and bad effects if I were to let the grain bed re-settle before draining off the (sparge) water?

Question about Sparging, I batch sparge and I continue to read posts from brewers who stir up the grain bed after laughtering the first runnings. This seems kind of counter intuitive to me and I am hoping that someone can educate me. It seems like stirring the grain bed would negate the tedious...

No sugar left behind.....I like it! I can't wait to hear how it tastes. You can call it "cold sparging" lol. My first brew system many moons ago, was a terrible system that I won't even mention here, but I had mold on a batch (due to an inferior airlock system) and I just scooped it off and...

I'm curious, why not just mash like traditional brewing methods? Why mash in the kettle? Sound like an amazing recipe, I'm going to try it for sure. My fiancé is celiac and while I have made some great sorghum beers, there more like a mead than a beer.

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Thanks kingbogart. That was quick

I apologize. In editing my thread it appears I have reported it.

I'm fairly new to all grain brewing, I'm on batch 5. I have extract brewed for years so I understand the basic fundamentals of brewing. It seems that my brewing software greatly underestimates the efficiency of my equipment, and I tend to have about a gallon or so of wort left after my sparge. I...

I'm fairly new to all grain brewing, I'm on batch 5. I have extract brewed for years so I understand the basic fundamentals of brewing. It seems that my brewing software greatly underestimates the efficiency of my equipment, and I tend to have about a gallon or so of wort left after my sparge. I...