Dolemite78
Active Member
I am currently on day 8 of primary fermentation of a Green Chile beer I am brewing in a Mr. Beer 8.5qt container. I added 3 large roasted Chile's to the brew just before pitching the yeast. I see a lot of seeds and food particles floating around and decided I want to rack to a secondary to clean it up a bit, although I do plan on adding more Chile's to the secondary. I've never used a secondary but think I may want to here.
My problem is that I don't have a true secondary and my 5 gallon primary is already in use. I have the bottling bucket that I thought about using, but don't have a cap for it. So my plan is to rack to the sanitized bottling bucket just to give myself time to clean out the Mr. Beer bucket, then transfer back.
My question is, how clean should I get it? Is there anything in the sediment that is "working" or doing anything for my beer? I had planned to clean it completely then add new chile's and just strain out any remaining junk before bottling. Are there any problems with the above scenario, or is this just too much work for nothing? Should I just ride out another 5 days or so in the primary? Thanks in advance.
My problem is that I don't have a true secondary and my 5 gallon primary is already in use. I have the bottling bucket that I thought about using, but don't have a cap for it. So my plan is to rack to the sanitized bottling bucket just to give myself time to clean out the Mr. Beer bucket, then transfer back.
My question is, how clean should I get it? Is there anything in the sediment that is "working" or doing anything for my beer? I had planned to clean it completely then add new chile's and just strain out any remaining junk before bottling. Are there any problems with the above scenario, or is this just too much work for nothing? Should I just ride out another 5 days or so in the primary? Thanks in advance.