zarathustra19
Member
Okay, so I've actually been brewing for about three years now, and with the lighter beers I've made good progress. However, I thought I'd post this in the beginners forum since its really my first "dark" beer.
I'm brewing a porter, and the recipe calls for leaving the wort in the primary for two weeks. However, after about five days now, I've reached the estimated FG for the brew and tasted a sample. It seems like it might be close to done. There still might be a few fermentables that need to be used up (I'm thinking the FG will bottom out around 1.010, rather than 1.013, so it's negligible), but I don't know that I necessarily need another week in the primary before racking.
My question is whether or not the beer will significantly improve from another week in the primary or if I should just rack to the secondary and onto my flavor additive (toasted coconut). Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks,
Zach
I'm brewing a porter, and the recipe calls for leaving the wort in the primary for two weeks. However, after about five days now, I've reached the estimated FG for the brew and tasted a sample. It seems like it might be close to done. There still might be a few fermentables that need to be used up (I'm thinking the FG will bottom out around 1.010, rather than 1.013, so it's negligible), but I don't know that I necessarily need another week in the primary before racking.
My question is whether or not the beer will significantly improve from another week in the primary or if I should just rack to the secondary and onto my flavor additive (toasted coconut). Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks,
Zach