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kickrjason

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I am planning on doing an all wheat DME hefe batch soon. I have never done a hefe @ home so I have a question regarding bottling. Do I need to bother with a secondary or do I bottle right out of the primary?

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Don't need to secondary, but need to rack on priming sugar in another bucket.

Not necessarily. If his primary has a spigot, as all three of mine do, he can add the sugar solution to the primary, give it a very gentle stir for 30 seconds or so, let it settle a few minutes, then bottle from there. I've done this and everything came out perfectly.


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I use glass carboys. I am splitting the batch doing 1/2 into bottles and racking the other half onto some blueberries for a week.

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In that case, since you don't already have it in a bottling bucket/spigot as Rev 2010 states, then go with what heferly suggests and rack it onto priming sugar solution in a bottling bucket and go from there. Should go nice and smooth; just remember to keep the hose end submerged in the bottling bucket to reduce oxidation. If you do in the future primary in a bottling bucket, that's also fine; the reason I don't usually primary in a spigot bucket is because fruit flies (and other things) like to hang around or inside the spout and I get wondering about proper sanitation... I do wipe inside and out with StarSan, and it's not likely to be a real concern, but I figure what the heck, just rack to the inside/outside sanitized bottling bucket. On the other hand, as was once pointed out to me, when fruit flies etc ARE a problem, there's an even greater likelihood of them being a problem around an open bucket during racking and bottling... So, I've got no real reason to go with one over the other and as said I have in fact done both, even using a bottling bucking for the primary with a white wine I did once. Didn't hurt a thing and was less work and cleanup in the end. All a matter of choice.
 
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