Advice?

[rocketsan]

This is a week in. Concerned about krausen residual ring...should I transfer this to another carboy? Do I need to worry about mold growth? Was planning on bulk aging for a few months...
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[GilaMinumBeer]

I say walk away.

 

[FirstAidBrewing]

If you've got a good seal you have no need to worry about infection. It's just residual junk from fermentation that will not affect your brew

 

[rocketsan]

Even if I'm leaving it a few months?

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

If it weren't on the collar it would be inside her, I mean in cider.

 

[okbecker]

If you're going to age for a few months I would recommend you transfer it to a secondary....not because of the Krausen ring, just to get off yeast cake. When fermentation is complete.

 

[botigol]

Your airlock looks like it needs to be cleaned as well.

 

[DaMonkey]

I concur with both okbecker and botigol. Just to add a point wait till your fermentation is complete before racking and then aging.

 

[Yooper]

It needs to be racked- but not yet. Wait until fermentation slows, then it can be racked and topped up and aged a bit. If you wait a bit to rack now, more sediment can be left behind at this racking.

 

[Maylar]

I would clean and sanitize the airlock, and use a sanitized turkey baster to wash the foam into the jug. Better have it gone now than risk knocking it off with a siphon when you rack to secondary. JMO

 

[okbecker]

I would clean and sanitize the airlock, and use a sanitized turkey baster to wash the foam into the jug. Better have it gone now than risk knocking it off with a siphon when you rack to secondary. JMO

Clean airlock..sure. what do you mean wash foam into jug? That Krause ring should be zero issue if proper sanitation procedures were followed initially..even if a piece gets knocked in when siphoning...I would not want a bunch of rinse and foam in my freshly fermented beer.

 

[Maylar]

Clean airlock..sure. what do you mean wash foam into jug? That Krause ring should be zero issue if proper sanitation procedures were followed initially..even if a piece gets knocked in when siphoning...I would not want a bunch of rinse and foam in my freshly fermented beer.

The krausen will normally fall off the bottle neck by itself, but sometimes some of it sticks there. I don't like risking knocking off pieces of it with the siphon when racking to secondary - the point of racking is to leave behind the sediment. So if the bottle gets opened for some reason (like to clean the bung and airlock) I will use a baster to wash it down into the carboy. Not with rinse, with cider. Especially with 1 gallon jugs, the neck is small.

 

[okbecker]

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