ExtremeWade
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I have jumped right into AG brewing and have bought my first two batches of grain from mid west supplies and upon coming home after a wedding this weekend I went to test my gravities of my Big Ben Pale and and Seasonal "Happy Ale" I brewed last Saturday, (8 days now) and just wanted to see where my gravities were in reference to their PDF instructions.
I gathered my readings and that was cool to see that I was within my gravity readings and will soon be ready to bottle my ales.
One thing that confused me was that on both PDF instructional documents they said to ferment the beer in a primary for 5-7 days and then transfer to secondary carboy. If using only one bucket, it recommended that it ferment in there for no more than 2 weeks.
So, my question is, when one beer says on the box it will be "ready" in 5 weeks, the Big Ben Pale Ale and the Seasonal says "2 months" how much time do I know or need to allow for primary fermentation time in bucket and then when I rack to secondary carboy, how muck time in that one should I go for, when one says 5 weeks and the other says 2 months? I know eavy beer is different so I was assuming that most all the beer spend about the same time in the primary, about a good week, and then the rest of the time it will spend in the secondary for the rest of the time until it reaches the time amounts recommended by the beer?
Am I on the right track? Below are the link to the PDF's if any of you all want to glance at them and see what I am referencing officially.
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/media/downloads/98/Big Ben Pale Ale All grain Instructions.pdf
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/media/downloads/41/Happy Holiday Ale Instructions.pdf
I gathered my readings and that was cool to see that I was within my gravity readings and will soon be ready to bottle my ales.
One thing that confused me was that on both PDF instructional documents they said to ferment the beer in a primary for 5-7 days and then transfer to secondary carboy. If using only one bucket, it recommended that it ferment in there for no more than 2 weeks.
So, my question is, when one beer says on the box it will be "ready" in 5 weeks, the Big Ben Pale Ale and the Seasonal says "2 months" how much time do I know or need to allow for primary fermentation time in bucket and then when I rack to secondary carboy, how muck time in that one should I go for, when one says 5 weeks and the other says 2 months? I know eavy beer is different so I was assuming that most all the beer spend about the same time in the primary, about a good week, and then the rest of the time it will spend in the secondary for the rest of the time until it reaches the time amounts recommended by the beer?
Am I on the right track? Below are the link to the PDF's if any of you all want to glance at them and see what I am referencing officially.
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/media/downloads/98/Big Ben Pale Ale All grain Instructions.pdf
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/media/downloads/41/Happy Holiday Ale Instructions.pdf