larrychris109
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hey guys. i brewed my 2nd batch, american pale ale by brewers best, this past weekend and it is now fermenting. i have a small satellite fermenter (just an empty beer bottle with 6-8 oz of beer from the primary) sitting next to my primary fermenter. the beer in the satellite is extremely cloudy. one big difference between this batch and my first batch was that i sprinkled the hops directly into the brewpot this time, while my when making my first beer (a porter recipe), i put the hops into muslin bags. and i did use a strainer when transferring the wort from the brewpot to the primary fermenter. should i try a secondary fermentation or will the cloudiness subside when i rack to the bottling bucket? and if i do need to do a secondary fermentation, since my equipment is limited (i got a brewers best equipment kit which had a 6.5 gallon white plastic fermenting bucket and a 6.5 gallon white plastic bottling bucket), could i just rack from the primary to the cleaned and sanitized bottling bucket, then immediately clean and re-sanitize the primary fermentation bucket, and re-rack back into that same primary fermentation bucket? i also have read that after transferring to a secondary fermentation the beer should sit for at least 2 more weeks before bottling. is this true? any help or input on this matter would be greatly apprecatied. thanks guys.