Flyinghutch
New Member
Hey Guys!
Long time lurker, first time poster, and future contributor here!
I have a batch of End of the trail ale (american stout) in the fermenter right now. it's been about a week and In a few more days I think I'll be close to taking my first gravity readings to see where we are at.
My question is about experimentation with portions of my future tasty beer. What I was considering was racking off a gallon into another carboy to mess around with some peppers. Kind of see if I can make something like the Clown Shoes Chocolate Sombrero.
Now I don't want to commit all five gallons to this experiment, so I'm curious what the approved practice is here.
The way I see it I have a few options:
1- Rack off one gallon and leave the rest in the primary fermenter until bottling time. My concern now would be too much headspace in the primary late in the process.
2- Rack off one gallon and the rack the rest into a 5 gallon carboy. That still gives me a lot of headspace but not as much as before.
3- Rack off two 1 gallon carboys and one 3 gallon carboy so everything is nice and tight up to the neck. This one is a lot of cleaning and sterilizing and increases my chances of screwing SOMETHING up quite a bit.
4- Just leave it alone and drink my beer!
Any opinions?
Thanks guys!!
-hutch
Long time lurker, first time poster, and future contributor here!
I have a batch of End of the trail ale (american stout) in the fermenter right now. it's been about a week and In a few more days I think I'll be close to taking my first gravity readings to see where we are at.
My question is about experimentation with portions of my future tasty beer. What I was considering was racking off a gallon into another carboy to mess around with some peppers. Kind of see if I can make something like the Clown Shoes Chocolate Sombrero.
Now I don't want to commit all five gallons to this experiment, so I'm curious what the approved practice is here.
The way I see it I have a few options:
1- Rack off one gallon and leave the rest in the primary fermenter until bottling time. My concern now would be too much headspace in the primary late in the process.
2- Rack off one gallon and the rack the rest into a 5 gallon carboy. That still gives me a lot of headspace but not as much as before.
3- Rack off two 1 gallon carboys and one 3 gallon carboy so everything is nice and tight up to the neck. This one is a lot of cleaning and sterilizing and increases my chances of screwing SOMETHING up quite a bit.
4- Just leave it alone and drink my beer!
Any opinions?
Thanks guys!!
-hutch