chelero
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planning this for a while, but now that it's almost time to do it, a couple of questions have been swirling around in my beer.
I brewed a beer, and once primary fermentation has finished, am going to rack it onto some wild cherries. Don't have an exact volume, cause I have a bunch of cherries, but I'm thinking of filling up about the bottom 1/4 of my 5 gal carboy. I'm planning on racking the beer on the fruit, and once it's almost full, racking what's left of the beer into a 5 liter bottle(so I can have a little without fruit).
Now, my questions are:
1. since I will have already taken gravity readings to determine that OG is reached before racking to my secondary vessels, is it OK if I bottle the 5L beer without taking a another reading(this one won't have had anything added, and I'd be trying to conserve as much as possible, since there won't be that much)?
2. how should I adjust my priming sugar amounts? the beer in the 5L bottle won't be more than just over a gallon, and the beer in the 5Gal carboy will be with the fruit, so I'm not sure how much that will be, either.
thanks so much for the help!
I brewed a beer, and once primary fermentation has finished, am going to rack it onto some wild cherries. Don't have an exact volume, cause I have a bunch of cherries, but I'm thinking of filling up about the bottom 1/4 of my 5 gal carboy. I'm planning on racking the beer on the fruit, and once it's almost full, racking what's left of the beer into a 5 liter bottle(so I can have a little without fruit).
Now, my questions are:
1. since I will have already taken gravity readings to determine that OG is reached before racking to my secondary vessels, is it OK if I bottle the 5L beer without taking a another reading(this one won't have had anything added, and I'd be trying to conserve as much as possible, since there won't be that much)?
2. how should I adjust my priming sugar amounts? the beer in the 5L bottle won't be more than just over a gallon, and the beer in the 5Gal carboy will be with the fruit, so I'm not sure how much that will be, either.
thanks so much for the help!