Hi everyone. I decided that its time to start my first lager beer (All grain method). Apart from overshooting the gravity a bit all went relatively well. I am planning to carbonate with sugar inside 5L party barrels. I have read somewere that if your going for priming then you should lager inside the bottles/barrels instead of lagering into the secondary. My question on that is this. When i should add the gelatin and how?
Should i add the gelatin during the end of the first fermentation, at the trasport to the second fermentation and leave it there (double loss from turd), or directly with the sugar to the barrels?
An example for adding the gelatin to the first fermentation bucket:
Assuming my fermentation ends ok at 52F or 11C, then without going into the secondary i will lower the tempreture to 37F or 2C and add the gelatin? Then after 4-6 days move to secondary, add sugar, barrel and lager?
Should i add the gelatin during the end of the first fermentation, at the trasport to the second fermentation and leave it there (double loss from turd), or directly with the sugar to the barrels?
An example for adding the gelatin to the first fermentation bucket:
Assuming my fermentation ends ok at 52F or 11C, then without going into the secondary i will lower the tempreture to 37F or 2C and add the gelatin? Then after 4-6 days move to secondary, add sugar, barrel and lager?