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If I rack my beer to a secondary fermentor, can I just pour a new brew into my primary fermentor, leaving the trub in it? Are their sanitation issues here? I would be putting the new beer into the primary fermentor and on top of the trub very soon after racking the old beer out of the...

that's what I figured, I mean, they came refridgerated right? Thanks

Is this bad? The temp fell during then first days of fermentation and the yeast became much less active, very little to no activity. I moved the carboy and when the temp rose, the yeast became very active again. Am I doomed?

yes thank you. using an ale yeast, finding lots of opinions on this forum. I am making a hoppy bitter. perhaps I will not use the secondary, the main reason I want to use the secondary (5 gallon) carboy is so that I may free up my primary (6 gallon) carboy to get started on another batch...

I was thinking of setting up a cycle of sorts. I know times will be different depending on the beer I am making, but as a beginner I am not getting fancy yet. Does this sound about right to anyone: Two weeks in Primary, Two weeks in Secondary, Two weeks in bottles? Any suggestions...