Greetings. My american pale ale will have been in the primary for 3 weeks on this upcoming Monday. I was hoping to bottle/pig this weekend if I get time.
The beer has clarified, and lots of stuff has settled out to the bottom of the carboy. But there are still a few bunches of what appears to be caked up residual foam sitting on top of the beer which doesn't seem to want to settle out.
I didn't want to transfer to secondary on the theory that the less I touch the beer, the better (less chance to contaminate, oxidize, etc). I was planning on siphoning half of this directly into a Party pig and priming in there and then moving the other half directly into 22 ounce bottles and using Carb Tabs to bottle prime.
Should I move this to a secondary instead to further clarify? Or perhaps I should batch prime in a 5 gallon pot I have (I don't have a bottling bucket at the moment) to try to get away from some of the floating stuff and then pig/bottle from there?
Thanks for any help. I will snap a picture when I get home if I get a chance....
The beer has clarified, and lots of stuff has settled out to the bottom of the carboy. But there are still a few bunches of what appears to be caked up residual foam sitting on top of the beer which doesn't seem to want to settle out.
I didn't want to transfer to secondary on the theory that the less I touch the beer, the better (less chance to contaminate, oxidize, etc). I was planning on siphoning half of this directly into a Party pig and priming in there and then moving the other half directly into 22 ounce bottles and using Carb Tabs to bottle prime.
Should I move this to a secondary instead to further clarify? Or perhaps I should batch prime in a 5 gallon pot I have (I don't have a bottling bucket at the moment) to try to get away from some of the floating stuff and then pig/bottle from there?
Thanks for any help. I will snap a picture when I get home if I get a chance....