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Do you have the racking arm?
If so do you rotate the racking arm? It should be horizontal for the duration of ferment then turn it so it faces up (you don’t need to go straight up) when you transfer.
It’ll always be full of yeast/hops so open it a few times to empty it before attaching your transfer fitting. With over 10oz of hops in the CF5 you definitely need to remove some before you try to transfer. Do it as slow as possible and do it 2 or 3 times.
2-3 days at 39/40 should be enough. Done it many times with as much as 16oz in both the CF5 and SS 7g Chronicals. As long as you dump hops a few times during and after crashing and let it sit for a few days at 40 you should be good. If you don’t have a racking arm I’d buy one. Don’t bag the hops. You’ll introduce more o2 and extraction is worse.
If so do you rotate the racking arm? It should be horizontal for the duration of ferment then turn it so it faces up (you don’t need to go straight up) when you transfer.
It’ll always be full of yeast/hops so open it a few times to empty it before attaching your transfer fitting. With over 10oz of hops in the CF5 you definitely need to remove some before you try to transfer. Do it as slow as possible and do it 2 or 3 times.
2-3 days at 39/40 should be enough. Done it many times with as much as 16oz in both the CF5 and SS 7g Chronicals. As long as you dump hops a few times during and after crashing and let it sit for a few days at 40 you should be good. If you don’t have a racking arm I’d buy one. Don’t bag the hops. You’ll introduce more o2 and extraction is worse.