Backside_Attack
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will giving a beer conditioning in the secondary a gentle swirl every once in a while affect it in any negative way? My reasoning for doing this is below:
I have been brewing a Wheat Beer (extract from Northern Brewer) and after two weeks in the primary I racked it to the secondary top of 4.5 pounds of frozen/pasteurized raspberries. It initially developed I nice secondary krausen that has since fallen back in but a good 1/3 of the raspberries are still floating on top of the beer. Since mold usually grows in a substrate in contact with air (be it anaerobic or not) I try to give the carboy a gentle swirl once a day or so to more-or-less submerge the fruit into the nice acidic/alcoholic/anaerobic liquid until the gas pushes it back again.
Most of the trub stays sedimented when I do this, this picture was taken shortly after one of the "swirls". What do you think am I damaging the beer? (brand new brewer by way, this is my first batch)
I have been brewing a Wheat Beer (extract from Northern Brewer) and after two weeks in the primary I racked it to the secondary top of 4.5 pounds of frozen/pasteurized raspberries. It initially developed I nice secondary krausen that has since fallen back in but a good 1/3 of the raspberries are still floating on top of the beer. Since mold usually grows in a substrate in contact with air (be it anaerobic or not) I try to give the carboy a gentle swirl once a day or so to more-or-less submerge the fruit into the nice acidic/alcoholic/anaerobic liquid until the gas pushes it back again.
Most of the trub stays sedimented when I do this, this picture was taken shortly after one of the "swirls". What do you think am I damaging the beer? (brand new brewer by way, this is my first batch)