racking to secondary and kreusen

Hey everybody,
I need some help. I was just about to rack to secondary today, but when I popped the top off of my primary bucket there was still a thick Kreusen on the top of the beer? there has been very little airlock activity after a steady 3 days. it has been in primary for 6 days so far. I needed to rack it becuase I'm going to use the yeast cake to pitch in the beer I am brewing right now, and also becuase I want to use the bucket for the primary. so is it safe to rack it or do I need to wait for the kreusen to fall. if it is ok, what should I do with the Kruesen, should I usea sanitized spoon to discard it before racking?

I had a similar situation krausen was pretty much fallen and no airlock activity, but when I transferred to my secondary I began to see air-lock activity, DOH! After carefully reviewing everything I belive that my issues were caused by an ambient temp. drop from 70 to 64, but I am NO expert. Some one else should chime in any minute. Good Luck.

As long as you have an air lock or blow off on your secondary, you will be fine.

Go ahead and rack. Clearing the krausen can't hurt, but I wouldn't worry. Worst case, you might have some trub to avoid when you rack to the priming bucket. Sometimes the secondary ferment IS a secondary, not just a clearing time.

What are you pitching on the cake? Another stout?

I have a similar issue right now too.. the Wit beer I brewed a week abo still has a thick krausen on top and its been a week.. but I also heard the wit yeast tends to ferment longer... so I'm going to give it a few more days before I rack into the secondary...

Jester