I brewed my first lager a couple weeks ago - an all grain Bohemian pilsner. I had it in primary at 50-55 and was planning on about 10 days in there but I wasn't able to get back to it for 2 full weeks before I moved it to secondary. When I was going over the recipe in my LHBS I was advised to try and catch the fermentation at about 1018 and then move it to 2ndary but when i did transfer it the gravity reading was already down at 1012 which is only 1 or 2 points above my target FG ( I don't have the recipe at hand so i can't be sure whether it was 1010 or 1011)
I was planning to keep it in the 2ndary for 4 weeks and slowly drop the temp a couple degrees a day down to the low 30's and then bottle after that. Does this plan still work since I already got so close to FG? Should I react or should i just go on as planned?
-Andy
I was planning to keep it in the 2ndary for 4 weeks and slowly drop the temp a couple degrees a day down to the low 30's and then bottle after that. Does this plan still work since I already got so close to FG? Should I react or should i just go on as planned?
-Andy