Fermentation Strategy for Conicals?

[nickharbour]

I don't want to start a primary vs. secondary fermentation holy war but I'm curious what peoples strategy is for conical fermenters. I upgraded this year to three lovely blichmanns but I'm still using my old strategy of 4 week primary fermentation. It seems like a lot of reasoning for not doing a secondary is not risking an infection, which isn't an issue with the conicals since I don't have to re-rack to get rid of the trub.

Should I switch to using something like a 2-week primary and 2-week secondary?

 

[SD-SLIM]

I don't want to start a primary vs. secondary fermentation holy war but I'm curious what peoples strategy is for conical fermenters. I upgraded this year to three lovely blichmanns but I'm still using my old strategy of 4 week primary fermentation. It seems like a lot of reasoning for not doing a secondary is not risking an infection, which isn't an issue with the conicals since I don't have to re-rack to get rid of the trub.

Should I switch to using something like a 2-week primary and 2-week secondary?

With a conical, there is no need to rack to another vessel...secondaries are a way to separate the beer from the trub, in a conical all you do is drain off the trub.