5.25 gallons into 5 gallon glass carbory... bad idea?

[huge1s]

I have 5.25 gallons sitting in primary that has been there for a week and a half. I wanted to free up my primary for another batch, but wanted to let this beer sit for 3 weeks (at least). I tried looking it up... but only found a couple posts on the interwebz about fitting this much beer in a 5 gallon glass carboy. It looks like you can get 5.5 gallons in it up to the bottom of the neck of the bottle. Any confirmation on that? I was thinking that if it will fit and the beer has hit it's FG, this should be fine. I would also expect that stirring the beer up a bit from racking could cause a little bit more fermentation, but shouldn't be enough to cause krauzen. Is this a bad idea?

 

[passedpawn]

If it is done fermenting, and you are transfering it to another carboy, you can fill to the neck.

 

[huge1s]

If it is done fermenting, and you are transfering it to another carboy, you can fill to the neck.

any confirm on 5.25 into a 5 gallon? or should i just get my water bucket and check myself?

 

[OldStyler]

You can do it.

 

[huge1s]

You can do it.

nice... and thanks.

 

[Bierliebhaber]

You will lose volume in trub.

 

[solbes]

You will lose volume in trub.

+1

Easily lose .25 gallons in trub. I usually lose more. I try to brew around 5.4 gallons in the primary to target the base of the glass carboy neck after trub loss.