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This was the most helpful response. Thank you! Once fermentation is complete in a few weeks, I'll follow your steps above and add it all to the secondary! I appreciate your advice.

So once the fermentation is 100% complete then rack to secondary add the chips, then from there let the beer sit on the chips for however long it takes till I reach my desiered taste?

I am brewing a 5 gallon malt extract whiskey barrel stout. I brewed this yesterday and it's in the primary fermenter now (6.5 gallon bucket) the original gravity read at 1.063. The recipe calls for adding the whiskey barrel oak chips when racking to the secondary. 1. When is the right time to...

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Yes I did a gravity reading when I transferred to the secondary and it was 1.022. I had read that's long as its dropped 66%-75% it's okay to rack. Is that incorrect?

The recipes final gravity calls for 1.016-1.019. I keep reading longer doesn't hurt but do you think this weekend (total of 5 weeks) is long enough?

Am brewing a Malt Extract Imperial Nut Brown Ale. I brewed this on 9/2/12 and racked it to my secondary fermenter on 9/8/12. The OG was 1.074 and the final should be roughly 1.017. I've read that the higher the OG the longer the conditioning time the better the outcome. I was thinking about...

Excited to one day move to all grain. Cheers

That's exactly what it was. I sanitized my boil spoon stirred up the work in the fermenter and took another sample and my reading was at 1.074. Exactly where it should be. Fermentation is going strong. Thank you!

Just brewed my second batch. Both batches my original gravity have been significantly lower than they should be. Both batches are a extract kit. First was a American Pale Ale liquid malt extract kit. The one I brewed today is an imperial nut brown ale dry & liquid malt extract kit. I can't...

Sounds like I'm worrying for nothing. Thanks everyone. Cheers!

The beer taste good but I want to figure out how to chill the beer without losing carbonation. I plan to keep conditioning but really don't understand why cooling it at this point is losing almost all carbonation. While the carbonation to the unchilled beer is awesome.

I bottled my first batch an American pale ale 7 days ago. I wanted to see how the conditioning was going so I opened one today and had beautiful carbonation. So I put a couple in the fridge to taste it refrigerated and when I opened it it had almost zero carbonation. So I opened another one that...