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To Rack or Not To Rack
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Link didn't work for me!
Actually most of us realize that autolysis is a boogeyman to the homebrewer so getting it off the yeast cake is of little concern...many of us here leave our beers in primary for between 3 and 4 weeks....This allows the yeast to go back, after fermentation, and clean up many of the byproducts of fermentation.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/let-beer-clean-up-after-itself-primary-what-does-mean-68823/
One of the benefits of this is a diacetyl restl. As mantioned in this thread https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f13/preventing-diacetyl-hold-butter-please-70438/
But I'd like to read this article...
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https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/let-beer-clean-up-after-itself-primary-what-does-mean-68823/
One of the benefits of this is a diacetyl restl. As mantioned in this thread https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f13/preventing-diacetyl-hold-butter-please-70438/
But I'd like to read this article...
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The naughty word filter kicked in...I wonder if this was just actually a spam attempt???
Yep....methinks it's a spammer...the post got edited...
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don't you hate giving good advice to a spammer?
*sigh*....and I actually took the time to search those threads for him...I want those 30 seconds of my life back...
I think I figured it out...he was talking about "racking" right...I bet that that was a link to a bewbie site...
Soulive
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This person hit Beeradvocate as well. The site they linked to was pretty useful...
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I figured you'd have some special cut & paste feature by now where you could with one click of the mouse have that post out. I think you only deserve at 4.2 seconds back...
I figured you'd have some special cut & paste feature by now where you could with one click of the mouse have that post out. I think you only deserve at 4.2 seconds back...
Soulive's right it was a good article, but he cites the same reasoning I and others leave it in primary for a month...
...I wonder if the site he linked it to is on our very rare list of banned sites to link to?
oh I get it...the site that it was linked to is another social networking site for homebrewers....but ours is better....
Anbrew
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I still want to talk about the question at hand. I've been racking to secondary for...a LONG time ago. It seems like most users on here do not use a secondary. The lazy person in me is very attracted to this (almost more so than the brewer)...
However, I always pitch right onto the old yeast cake (no cleaning or anything) twice (that is three batches of beer, increasing in gravity, off of one starter pitch). I WOULD start to get autolysis off-flavors at that point wouldn't I? I mean, we're talking 12 weeks on one yeast cake.
However, I always pitch right onto the old yeast cake (no cleaning or anything) twice (that is three batches of beer, increasing in gravity, off of one starter pitch). I WOULD start to get autolysis off-flavors at that point wouldn't I? I mean, we're talking 12 weeks on one yeast cake.
Your chances are increased if your yeast in unhealthy or stressed out...so yeah if you were pitching on a yeast cake (meaning not washing/harvesting the yeast cake and re making a starter) then yes you would increase you odds of autolysis occuring....I won't say it's a given...
Remember something, autolysis is more a concern to LAGER brewers, especially commercial brewers...they are concerned with even the slightlest inconsisitancy in flavor profile....I'm talking bud/miller/coors here....we can slide some with ales...
If you want more info, start with the links I pasted in my post...then search for out discussions on no secondary and long primaries...we have discussed it a lot.
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