ElmCityWobblyPops
Well-Known Member
Been reading up on the FF, thinking about asking Santa one for Xmas, but have a few questions.
1) Dry hopping. Normally rack the beer from the primary carboy, to a secondary and add the hops. How do you do that with the FF where it is primary and secondary all in one? If you unscrew the top, letting out the CO2 to add the dry hops, kinda defeats the purpose, or is that not really an issue?
2) Bottling. I am not set up for kegs, and currently don't have the room for it, so I bottle everything. Short of adding priming sugar to each bottle (PITA), or buying the carb tablets (expensive) how do you batch prime? Opening the top of the FF to add your priming sugar, it isn't going to get mixed all that well, and you surely don't want to stir it in, adding in more air.
Rack off to a bottling bucket? Same as I would do with a glass carboy?
Would be nice to be able to batch prime in it, and bottle off of the FF, rather than have to transfer it.
1) Dry hopping. Normally rack the beer from the primary carboy, to a secondary and add the hops. How do you do that with the FF where it is primary and secondary all in one? If you unscrew the top, letting out the CO2 to add the dry hops, kinda defeats the purpose, or is that not really an issue?
2) Bottling. I am not set up for kegs, and currently don't have the room for it, so I bottle everything. Short of adding priming sugar to each bottle (PITA), or buying the carb tablets (expensive) how do you batch prime? Opening the top of the FF to add your priming sugar, it isn't going to get mixed all that well, and you surely don't want to stir it in, adding in more air.
Rack off to a bottling bucket? Same as I would do with a glass carboy?
Would be nice to be able to batch prime in it, and bottle off of the FF, rather than have to transfer it.