Hello, I have a question about oktoberfest

[mindonhiatus]

Hi everybody, my name is Ben. I recently started brewing from a kit because I had been through a bad breakup and needed something to take my mind off things... my brother makes wine and had alot of the equipment I would need and so I decided to try an Oktoberfest kit, I siphoned the beer into the secondary and there was still quite a bit of sediment in the secondary so I siphoned it again after 2 weeks, what I'm wondering is will the yeast eventually die off if I wait too long (making it impossible to carbonate the beer)?

 

[whoneedsabeer]

You shouldn't have any problems when adding priming sugar. Some people leave their beer in primary for a month or longer at room temp, and get great results. Yeast are pretty tough little bugs, there will be plenty for carb when you bottle.

 

[3PegBrew]

Hi everybody, my name is Ben. I recently started brewing from a kit because I had been through a bad breakup and needed something to take my mind off things... my brother makes wine and had alot of the equipment I would need and so I decided to try an Oktoberfest kit, I siphoned the beer into the secondary and there was still quite a bit of sediment in the secondary so I siphoned it again after 2 weeks, what I'm wondering is will the yeast eventually die off if I wait too long (making it impossible to carbonate the beer)?

The point of Secondary is to take the beer of the main yeast cake in the primary and to allow clearing. Most people use a secondary if they want to have more time allowed before bottling because they don't have the time to bottle.

You will have plenty of free floating yeast when it comes to conditioning in bottles with priming sugar.

In other words, relax. You're A O K

 

[pericles]

Don't worry, you should be fine!

 

[lunchbox]

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