Lager in bucket or keg?

[h22lude]

When you lager, do you transfer it into your keg or keep it in your fermenter or rack off the yeast cake into a secondary?

 

[Yooper]

When you lager, do you transfer it into your keg or keep it in your fermenter or rack off the yeast cake into a secondary?

You definitely want to get it off of the yeast cake right after the diacetyl rest. You can do that in the keg, or into a carboy. Either is fine!

 

[Sdragon980]

I'm doing my first lager and have racked it into the secondary but i notice a good half inch of yeast/sedement on the bottom on the carboy. Should I rerack again to get it off of that yeast cake too or will I be fine?

 

[h22lude]

You definitely want to get it off of the yeast cake right after the diacetyl rest. You can do that in the keg, or into a carboy. Either is fine!

That is what I figured. Looks like im racking tonight. 2 weeks at 53, 1 week at 65 and now 8 weeks at 35. Damn wait time

 

[h22lude]

I just racked the Stella clone into the secondary and put it in my keezer at 40 degrees. My FG reading was right on point (1.013) which I'm happy about. It might be a little too bitter for a Stella but I think it still tasted really good.

 

[Bulls Beers]

After fermentation and diacetyl rest is done, I rack to a keg for lagering.

 

[h22lude]

I'm most likely going to lager for 6 weeks then rack to a keg and then carb for another 2 weeks before serving

 

[Yooper]

I'm doing my first lager and have racked it into the secondary but i notice a good half inch of yeast/sedement on the bottom on the carboy. Should I rerack again to get it off of that yeast cake too or will I be fine?

That's surprising- usually you don't get that much yeast after primary and the diactyl rest. It'll be ok to lager, though- I wouldn't rack again.