Catsnstuff
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Hi everyone,
We're trying a couple of batches of Apfelwein, based loosely on Ed Wort's. I notice that his recipe says "racking to a secondary is not necessary", and indeed, we tried doing this for our first batch after several weeks and I think it was a mistake - it was still bubbling a fair bit, but after shifting it fementation slowed RIGHT down.
My question is, what determines if you should rack to secondary or not? My understanding is that it's to get rid of the layer of old yeast that might be breeding undesirables (please correct me if I'm wrong, or add anything.) Why aren't they a problem with Apfelwein?
Thanks very much in advance.
We're trying a couple of batches of Apfelwein, based loosely on Ed Wort's. I notice that his recipe says "racking to a secondary is not necessary", and indeed, we tried doing this for our first batch after several weeks and I think it was a mistake - it was still bubbling a fair bit, but after shifting it fementation slowed RIGHT down.
My question is, what determines if you should rack to secondary or not? My understanding is that it's to get rid of the layer of old yeast that might be breeding undesirables (please correct me if I'm wrong, or add anything.) Why aren't they a problem with Apfelwein?
Thanks very much in advance.