Racking into bottling bucket for secondary?

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MarkIafrate

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Hey everyone,

I was thinking of racking into secondary for a hefeweizen just to help with clarity. Can I rack into the bottling bucket with a built in spigot? I feel like the inch of space under the interior spigot opening is perfect go collecting sediment.

Thanks for the help!

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Mark
 
you can if you really want to. However with your hefewizen it shouldn't be really getting clear due to the yeast. Also from experience I know my bottling bucket has a very slow leak at the spigot but a leak none the less. I would just let it ride out the two weeks in the primary and then bottle or if you want to start using a secondary invest in a better bottle as it will reduce the amount of headspace that needs to be purged by the remaining fermentation once you transfer.
 
But if you use your bottling bucket for a clearing vessel (not a great idea due to the very wide headspace once fermentation has slowed/stopped), how will you mix your priming sugar into the beer without disturbing the sediment on the bottom? I can't picture how that would work.

I'd leave it sit where it is, until it's time to bottle then rack the beer into the priming solution in the bottling bucket.
 
I would shy away from that. As noted, headspace and mixing your priming sugar could lead to issues. A friend of mine who's been brewing for 10 years, and recently got me into it, just got a conical fermenter. He attempted to add priming solution directly into the fermenter and bottle from there, but 90% of his bottles didn't carb. Not sure if it was due to very little yeast in suspension or if the sugar didn't mix well, but it lead to a less than desirable outcome
 
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