xon432246
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How do I know when it's time to rack to a secondary fermenter? It's been five days and the heavy fermenting is over but there's still small bubbles rising.
Yep, like I said above everyone used to think that you had to get the beer off the yeast cake to prevent off flavors. This has been proven to not be the case and quite the contrary actually. Leaving the beer in primary will give the yeast some time to clean up their mess and will leave you with excellent beer. There is lots of info regarding this subject on this forum. Leave it in primary if your not adding anything and take that extra time to do a bunch of reading here about anything and everything related to brewing.I'm not adding anything else and the beer is an American Cream Ale. In the Brewers Best instructions they recommend racking to a secondary after 5-7 days to improve flavor and clarity. But after reading more I think it may be uneccessary.
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