Another noobie question about racking to secondary

[mlyday]

I take everything I read on these forums as suggestions not gospel. Experience is the best teacher. My first few batches were 2 weeks in the primary and out to the secondary. Then I read about people saying to leave it in the primary for 4 weeks, so I tried it. After the 4 weeks I still rack to a secondary with gelatine for a week, but it was clear enough I probably didnt need to. And that beer was the best one I had made, so now I do that everytime. Take what everyone says as a suggestion and maybe try them, but dont take them as hard and fast rules.

 

[rjwhite41]

Well put mlyday. Sorry for my crabbiness, I promised my wife I would skip a brew day (because I spent money I wasn't supposed to) and I haven't brewed in almost a month now. No excuse but it might explain why I've been crabby the last couple of days. Brewing an American Brown on Sunday and I can't wait!

 

[Daver77]

I take everything I read on these forums as suggestions not gospel. Experience is the best teacher. My first few batches were 2 weeks in the primary and out to the secondary. Then I read about people saying to leave it in the primary for 4 weeks, so I tried it. After the 4 weeks I still rack to a secondary with gelatine for a week, but it was clear enough I probably didnt need to. And that beer was the best one I had made, so now I do that everytime. Take what everyone says as a suggestion and maybe try them, but dont take them as hard and fast rules.

Yeah I appreciate everyone's input. I was thinking of taking a particular beer that I like and brewing the same batch with different resting times after it's done fermenting and just sort of experimenting based on what I learned here.

this is soo much fun though, all I think about is what my next brew will be.

 

[mlyday]

Yep there are no rules, its your beer. If you always do the same thing youll never learn anything. One thing I want to try that I havent done yet is brew one batch and try 3 different yeasts on the same wort. This would help me distinguish what flavor each yeast actually give the beer since the rest of the ingredients all come from the same batch of wort.

 

[revgreen]

I've currently got a Belgian Trippel sitting in a 5g primary bucket in my room. I was thinking of letting it sit in the primary for a few weeks, and then moving it to secondary, where we would let it sit for a few months. Are we better off doing that, or the opposite (keeping it in primary for as long as possible, and then moving it to secondary)? Or does this make little to no difference?

 

[Revvy]

I've currently got a Belgian Trippel sitting in a 5g primary bucket in my room. I was thinking of letting it sit in the primary for a few weeks, and then moving it to secondary, where we would let it sit for a few months. Are we better off doing that, or the opposite (keeping it in primary for as long as possible, and then moving it to secondary)? Or does this make little to no difference?

Normally if I intend to bulk age, I rack it to a secondary after a month.