Roasty
Well-Known Member
Hi guys! I just made my first batch! It's a kit-based DME Belgian Wit.
It's been happily fermenting away for a few days (brewed it this past Saturday, 6/14) and it's quickly closing in on the time that I need to start thinking about bottling.
I have two buckets for three purposes. I have a primary plastic fermenting bucket that has a spigot for bottling ease. I also have a glass carboy for my secondary.
It appears, however, that I did not think my cunning plan all the way through.
Being a wheat ale, I didn't think I'd need to rack to the secondary carboy. But now that I'm trying to figure out what to do when I need to bottle, it occured to me that I cannot stir the wort when I add the bottling sugar solution because I'll disturb the yeast/sediment at the bottom that managed to slip through the initial filter.
So my question is...what do I do? Rack to my carboy for a day so that I can clean out my primary/bottling bucket?
It's been happily fermenting away for a few days (brewed it this past Saturday, 6/14) and it's quickly closing in on the time that I need to start thinking about bottling.
I have two buckets for three purposes. I have a primary plastic fermenting bucket that has a spigot for bottling ease. I also have a glass carboy for my secondary.
It appears, however, that I did not think my cunning plan all the way through.
Being a wheat ale, I didn't think I'd need to rack to the secondary carboy. But now that I'm trying to figure out what to do when I need to bottle, it occured to me that I cannot stir the wort when I add the bottling sugar solution because I'll disturb the yeast/sediment at the bottom that managed to slip through the initial filter.
So my question is...what do I do? Rack to my carboy for a day so that I can clean out my primary/bottling bucket?