Did I transfer to secondary too soon?

[RM-MN]

There's just some things that are too easy for me to stop doing. Besides, I do a short secondary with pretty much everything I brew anyway because I never learned to transfer out of the primary without sucking up some of the yeast cake at least once.

I always suck up a little of the yeast cake when I rack to the bottling bucket. By the time I have everything set to bottle, it's already settled again and I just leave it in the bottling bucket. I dump that last half bottle that I couldn't get to go out the spigot into a glass tumbler and set it in the refrigerator and an hour later it has all settled again. Since I'm always bottle conditioning I know I will always have a little yeast in the bottle so if any did get through the spigot, who's going to know?

 

[Jon38464]

Boy there is a lot of people on here that seem to be A holes on this subject.He is NEW at this so why be so assholish to the guy,everyone makes mistake

 

[MaxStout]

Boy there is a lot of people on here that seem to be A holes on this subject.He is NEW at this so why be so assholish to the guy,everyone makes mistake

Old thread, but that "secondary or no secondary" argument was rather contentious back then. Revvy's post above (#24) is a very good explanation of why the whole autolysis thing has been debunked, and most people are on board with that now. You can leave the beer on the cake for months, without any ill effects.

But yeah, they could've been more diplomatic. Most people here are pretty welcoming to new members.

A bit of friendly advice: When joining a forum, it's best to not come in, guns blazing. Especially when you necro a 5-year-old thread.