How long can a brew sit in the secondary?

[sak1134]

I transferred my Guinness clone to the secondary over a week ago, and do to some delays in my keezer parts arriving, it will need to stay there for at least another week. How long is it OK to hold the beer in the secondary?

Steve

 

[mikescooling]

About 6 more weeks, others will say more.

 

[dadshomebrewing]

i just left three batches in primary for 2 months, because i was on the road.

i'm thinking your beer should be able to survive an extra couple days in secondary with little damage.

 

[ThePonchoKid]

I haven't looked up guinness as to whether it's a young beer or not. I would guess not. But either way 4-6 weeks in secondary will not do any harm at all. In most cases from what I gather 4-6 weeks or more of conditioning is ideal. So far I prefer 2-3 months, but haven't gone lower than 4.7% abv yet