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Crispyvelo

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Just brewed my second sour ale yesterday and pitched both sacch and a bug blend together in the wort which, just 24 hours later, has taken off. My question is - if it builds a nice funky, moldy, krauzen in the bucket during primary, is there any disadvantage to racking it to secondary? I want the long haul (8-12 months) to be in a glass carboy, not the brew bucket. If I rack it into the carboy in a while, should I try and also dump the krauzen in? Will the krauzen go away in a couple weeks when it's time to rack? Will it form another in secondary?

Am I over thinking this?

Thanks!
 
You are overthinking it. Just rack it once the fermentation is mostly finished if you are aging for a long time. You do not need the yeast cake at the bottom. There will be enough yeast and bacteria in suspension to keep working on it and carb your beer
 

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