zakleeright
Well-Known Member
To know when to transfer to secondary, or bottle, most say, "check the SG 3 days in a row...if it doesn't move, fermentation is done, and you can move to secondary (if thats your thing) or to bottle".
My secondary is a glass carbory, but I'm still using a plastic bucket for my primary and have a mental block. Do you just brazenly pop the lid off your primary, exposing its delicate innards to oxygen, the universe, and everything. All the carbon built up in its pristeen biome escapes. Then you plunk your (sterilized) theif into the wort to steal out a generous hunk of sacrificial elixir to drop your hydrometer into. Then pour it down the dran? Pour it back into the wort & know that you are as sterile as you wanna be? Drink it?
Then seal it all back up and its all good? And you do this every day?! Oh the humanity (yeast-anity?)
Do I just need to get over my newbie reverence for The Great Seal of the Primary?What are some simple equipment upgrades to keep everything sealed up and still take readings?
My secondary is a glass carbory, but I'm still using a plastic bucket for my primary and have a mental block. Do you just brazenly pop the lid off your primary, exposing its delicate innards to oxygen, the universe, and everything. All the carbon built up in its pristeen biome escapes. Then you plunk your (sterilized) theif into the wort to steal out a generous hunk of sacrificial elixir to drop your hydrometer into. Then pour it down the dran? Pour it back into the wort & know that you are as sterile as you wanna be? Drink it?
Then seal it all back up and its all good? And you do this every day?! Oh the humanity (yeast-anity?)
Do I just need to get over my newbie reverence for The Great Seal of the Primary?What are some simple equipment upgrades to keep everything sealed up and still take readings?