you could also just toss the hops in your primary afer fermentation is done
But don't I want to get the beer off the yeast cake and trub?
Right on. I read somewhere that you want your secondary fermenter to be smaller so that there is less oxenegation, is this a crucial factor? Hell, I even read that people put chips of dry ice in their carboys to push all the oxygen out. Do I need to worry about this?
I want to put my airlock on the secondary fermentor right?
Definitely don't worry about the secondary being smaller. Secondaries tend to be smaller than primaries, not because it is essential to have a smaller secondary, but instead because it is helpful to have a larger primary in order to allow for Krausen expansion.
I'll be buying a set of glass carboys soon. Should I go ahead and get a smaller one for the secondary? Or would it be OK to get the larger one incase I want to have to batches in the primary fermenter at the same time? (Plus, I think they may be on sale at my LHBS).
Yeah, I thought you would want any stage fermenter air-locked. I was just reading something recently that kept referring to the carboy being hard sealed and I thought that was odd so I wanted to check if I was way off base or not.
Thanks for all the help guys!
Also I cant reccomend the Plastic Better Bottles enough....
I will go glass on something thats going to be sitting for MONTHS other then that is a BB....
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