twd000
Well-Known Member
One of the reasons people give for racking to secondary is to prevent sitting on a yeast cake for many weeks. Why don't we worry about this in bottle-conditioned beers which can sit on residual yeast for months?
Because autolysis is not as prevalent as we homebrewers tend to obsess about. Sure, it happens but tends to take either some extreme conditions or more time than we give credit for.
Fact is, some brewer read about autolysis, took it out of context, had a flaw that resembled the character, and set a fire under that witches brew.
I primary all my beers a minimum of a month minimum.
Yup...and as gila we don't worry about autolysis any more in our fermenters, so we worry even less about it in our bottles...Having un autolysed bottle conditioned beer ALONE should be proof that the idea of autolysis isn't as big a concern as it was 30 years ago when yeast was less healthy than it is now.
skyking1488 said:check thish out www.draymans.com/articles/arts/16.html i do lov making beer, look @ lodon alot of dies back in the 19 but the people still live from the beer. its on the media, there was a show about that on tv shows. p.s had a few but still the same of home brew.
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