When to bottle a Hefe

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Evets

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After one week in the primary, and a very active initial blast-off, I've still got a half inch krausen and slow but sure airlock activity. This is my first Hefe. Should I rack to secondary or let it sit? Should I secondary at all, or just bottle from the primary when it's done? Thanks guys - Ev
 
I believe the secondary is used more for clearing. I prefer my hefe to be cloudy, so i bottle straight from the primary. Check you gravity a few days in a row to see if fermentation has finished and you are good to go.

I'm sure someone who has thrown their hefe in a secondary can tell you what that does to the hefe.
 
Evets said:
After one week in the primary, and a very active initial blast-off, I've still got a half inch krausen and slow but sure airlock activity. This is my first Hefe. Should I rack to secondary or let it sit? Should I secondary at all, or just bottle from the primary when it's done? Thanks guys - Ev
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Secondaries are great for 99.9% of all beers. Even hefe's can benefit.

HOWEVER...if your hydro readings are consant for 2-3 days, just bottle it. Afterall, drinking a good beer sooner, is better than drinking it later....:rockin:
 
tomek322 said:
I believe the secondary is used more for clearing. I prefer my hefe to be cloudy, so i bottle straight from the primary. Check you gravity a few days in a row to see if fermentation has finished and you are good to go.

I'm sure someone who has thrown their hefe in a secondary can tell you what that does to the hefe.
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Like Biermuncher said, most any beers will benefit. We just like to rack to secondary to get it off the yeast/hops from primary, that and have less crap on the bottom to possibly suck into the bottling bucket when we go to bottle.
 

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