I've just racked my second batch to a secondary fermentor and I've got some questions for you Brew-rus (Thats right,Brewer + Guru). My batch is a coffee stout, and I was only racking to a secondary because I had crushed some coffee beans and I was planning on letting the stout condition on top of these in the secondary. I took the FG of this batch and then checked again two days later and it was constant, so I prepped and santized and began to rack.
I moved the primary out of the closet and set it up to rack. While I was racking, it didn't seem like I was getting alot of yeast into the siphon (I watched for the brown cloudy stuff, didn't see much). I got all the beer in the secondary and left a good amount of trub and yeast in the primary. I put an airlock on it and put it in the closet.
This morning, I took a gender at it, and my layer of coffee bean is covered with yeast!!! So this leads me to my questions:
1. Will the flavor of my beans be negated by the yeast covering them?
2. Anyone have some tips for getting a clean rack. Off the top of my head, I should've let the primary sit for 20 mintues after I hefted it out of the closet, because I'm sure that stirred up some sediment. Is there anything else I can do, or will my racking skill just naturally increase with further batches?
I moved the primary out of the closet and set it up to rack. While I was racking, it didn't seem like I was getting alot of yeast into the siphon (I watched for the brown cloudy stuff, didn't see much). I got all the beer in the secondary and left a good amount of trub and yeast in the primary. I put an airlock on it and put it in the closet.
This morning, I took a gender at it, and my layer of coffee bean is covered with yeast!!! So this leads me to my questions:
1. Will the flavor of my beans be negated by the yeast covering them?
2. Anyone have some tips for getting a clean rack. Off the top of my head, I should've let the primary sit for 20 mintues after I hefted it out of the closet, because I'm sure that stirred up some sediment. Is there anything else I can do, or will my racking skill just naturally increase with further batches?