Did I say how glad I am to find this forum?:rockin:
After posting about whether or not to rack into a secondary glass carboy and reading all of the valuable information here from all of you expert brewers, I have decided to just let my beer (Moose Drool - Ale) sit in the primary bucket. The instructions on the kit tell me to rack to a secondary at 7 days and then 7 days later, bottle from the secondary. I am learning that there is more valuable instructions on HomeBrewTalk than there is on the piece of paper that came with the kit.
I am close to my final gravity reading but am gonna let it sit for a bit as I am going away this weekend and next. I figure if I just leave it alone, nothing will happen to it right? I'll take another gravity reading in between my trips next week.
So I just went to Northern Brewer (as my local brew shop doesn't have this) and ordered a bottling bucket that comes with a spigot. I also read that I can attach my hose and and bottler to the spigot. I'm hoping this will be easy. The reason I ordered a bottling bucket w/ the spigot is because my back is shot and this seems easier. So when I am ready, I just auto -siphon the beer from my primary bucket to my bottling bucket and all should hopefully go well! I also ordered an auto siphon clamp.
I looked at pricing at Midwest - both are comparable but went with Northern Brewer.
Then I will have two primaries for my next batches - my primary plastic bucket and the glass carboy that came w/ the kit - I'll just need another airlock. Yes I am addicted. I already have visions of the downstairs being lined with shelving for all the batches I want to make, next to the hubby's reloading station and tool bench. Yes I am taking over the downstairs Mancave but he won't mind, he likes that I found another hobby and that I will, as he puts it, "Keep my mitts off his reloading station and tool bench"
After posting about whether or not to rack into a secondary glass carboy and reading all of the valuable information here from all of you expert brewers, I have decided to just let my beer (Moose Drool - Ale) sit in the primary bucket. The instructions on the kit tell me to rack to a secondary at 7 days and then 7 days later, bottle from the secondary. I am learning that there is more valuable instructions on HomeBrewTalk than there is on the piece of paper that came with the kit.
I am close to my final gravity reading but am gonna let it sit for a bit as I am going away this weekend and next. I figure if I just leave it alone, nothing will happen to it right? I'll take another gravity reading in between my trips next week.
So I just went to Northern Brewer (as my local brew shop doesn't have this) and ordered a bottling bucket that comes with a spigot. I also read that I can attach my hose and and bottler to the spigot. I'm hoping this will be easy. The reason I ordered a bottling bucket w/ the spigot is because my back is shot and this seems easier. So when I am ready, I just auto -siphon the beer from my primary bucket to my bottling bucket and all should hopefully go well! I also ordered an auto siphon clamp.
I looked at pricing at Midwest - both are comparable but went with Northern Brewer.
Then I will have two primaries for my next batches - my primary plastic bucket and the glass carboy that came w/ the kit - I'll just need another airlock. Yes I am addicted. I already have visions of the downstairs being lined with shelving for all the batches I want to make, next to the hubby's reloading station and tool bench. Yes I am taking over the downstairs Mancave but he won't mind, he likes that I found another hobby and that I will, as he puts it, "Keep my mitts off his reloading station and tool bench"