permo
Well-Known Member
Well, I have always used a secondary or clearing vessel since the beggining of my brewing carreer. Believing this was the way to clear, delicious beer. I have brewed 10 good all grain beers using a secondary for all of them...
I decided to take some of the advice of the folks on the boards here and go with an extended primary and skip secondary on a maple nut brown ale of mine. To make a long story short I couldn't be more impressed. I brewed up a 1.052 nut brown and pitched a nottingham starter in. I fermented at 63 degrees for two weeks and just bottled tonight. This beer was CRYSTAL clear...amazing. The most impressive part was the flocculation. The nottingham was about 1/2 inch thick and stuck like glue to the bottom of the fermenter. I siphoned every last drop of beer off the the cake and it didn't cloud up or get roused at all. AMAZING!
So, here are my thoughts. Unless, you are adding fruit, spices, dry hopping, aging a heavy/imperial , or lagering....secondary is for the birds.
needless to say I am impressed. I took a taste of this beer while bottling and it was so smooth..dangerously smooth for a 5.7% ABV brew..almost bock like.
I decided to take some of the advice of the folks on the boards here and go with an extended primary and skip secondary on a maple nut brown ale of mine. To make a long story short I couldn't be more impressed. I brewed up a 1.052 nut brown and pitched a nottingham starter in. I fermented at 63 degrees for two weeks and just bottled tonight. This beer was CRYSTAL clear...amazing. The most impressive part was the flocculation. The nottingham was about 1/2 inch thick and stuck like glue to the bottom of the fermenter. I siphoned every last drop of beer off the the cake and it didn't cloud up or get roused at all. AMAZING!
So, here are my thoughts. Unless, you are adding fruit, spices, dry hopping, aging a heavy/imperial , or lagering....secondary is for the birds.
needless to say I am impressed. I took a taste of this beer while bottling and it was so smooth..dangerously smooth for a 5.7% ABV brew..almost bock like.