Hi folks,
I'm very new to the homebrew thing but have a few brews on the go now.
My question: I bottled up some Coopers Australian Larger on the 3rd of this month, I syphoned it from the fermenter into a pressure barrel with my priming sugar in it and left it overnight before bottling the next morning.
The bottles have been 18 to 24 degrees C, tho occasionally maybe 16 in the night. I thought that should be warm enough but being new I thought they wouldn't clear so quick as they have. I have some of the batch in PET bottles and they are firming up a bit but not solid, and some of the batch in clear glass so I can see what's going on (the PET's are brown). I'm wondering as they are so clear whether I should gently stir up the sediment again, will this aid the second fermenting, or should I just leave them to it and comtinue my plan which was to leave them a few weeks in the warm before moving them to the porch where they'll get more like 5 to 10 degrees C conditioning...
I hope that makes sense, yes I'm new
Any advice most welcome!
Cheers folks.
I'm very new to the homebrew thing but have a few brews on the go now.
My question: I bottled up some Coopers Australian Larger on the 3rd of this month, I syphoned it from the fermenter into a pressure barrel with my priming sugar in it and left it overnight before bottling the next morning.
The bottles have been 18 to 24 degrees C, tho occasionally maybe 16 in the night. I thought that should be warm enough but being new I thought they wouldn't clear so quick as they have. I have some of the batch in PET bottles and they are firming up a bit but not solid, and some of the batch in clear glass so I can see what's going on (the PET's are brown). I'm wondering as they are so clear whether I should gently stir up the sediment again, will this aid the second fermenting, or should I just leave them to it and comtinue my plan which was to leave them a few weeks in the warm before moving them to the porch where they'll get more like 5 to 10 degrees C conditioning...
I hope that makes sense, yes I'm new
Any advice most welcome!
Cheers folks.