phew!!
thanks. first time brewing. i keep reading different ways and thought i was doing it wrong.
That's fine. Lots of people do it that way. secondary should always be done in the carboy if you have a bucket/carboy setup.
Though for 90% of the beers, there is no need to do a secondary
i'm doing a india black ale.
it recommended a secondary
JeepDiver said:Most commercial recipies recommend a secondary, very few actually need it.
What if you need to be flexible about timing to bottling? I thought it was a bad idea to keep beer in the primary for too long. Maybe that doesn't make it an absolute need but for those of us with tight schedules it pretty much is a need?
Wow, interesting stuff. I got my concern of leaving it in the primary from reading the complete joy of homebrewing 3rd edition. Guess it lacks some of the latest info (or maybe I haven't read far enough where Charlie discusses the finer points of yeast breakdown).
I secondary so I can open my primary for a another batch.
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