Safale US-05 24hrs no signs yet

[AndyMac81]

They make additives that can clarify beer you add after fermentation is done. I hate racking to secondary because you lose some of your beer in the process

 

[kombat]

I was hoping to have a bit more clarity and less trudge in my bottles and I wanted to free up my primary for the next batch.

Freeing up the primary is a perfectly valid reason, but FYI, the current belief is that racking to secondary is actually detrimental to beer clarity. The reason is that while the beer is sitting in primary, yeast and sediment are slowly precipitating to the bottom. The top portion of the beer will be considerably clearer than the lower portion. When you rack the beer to another vessel, you're mixing all those particulates back into uniform solution, so they have to start precipitating from the top all over again.

The presence of absence of a yeast cake on the bottom of the fermenter is irrelevant to the ability of the beer to precipitate out any remaining sediment.

Summary: It actually makes the beer less clear, and risks oxidation to boot.

 

[spartan21]

Freeing up the primary is a perfectly valid reason, but FYI, the current belief is that racking to secondary is actually detrimental to beer clarity. The reason is that while the beer is sitting in primary, yeast and sediment are slowly precipitating to the bottom. The top portion of the beer will be considerably clearer than the lower portion. When you rack the beer to another vessel, you're mixing all those particulates back into uniform solution, so they have to start precipitating from the top all over again.

The presence of absence of a yeast cake on the bottom of the fermenter is irrelevant to the ability of the beer to precipitate out any remaining sediment.

Summary: It actually makes the beer less clear, and risks oxidation to boot.

Thanks for the tips and info, there is so much conflicting information on what is and isn't recommended regarding the secondary but the consensus seems to be that the secondary is just an extra step that is not needed, especially with the Ales that I am brewing. My first two beers were Brewers Best kits and the instructions recommend the secondary fermentation for clarity. Next up is pumpkin ale and a blonde ale, I plan to cut out the secondary for both of those and see how they go. I'll just leave them in the primary longer.

 

[spartan21]

I am on my third batch with US-05 and I am starting to trust that it is doing its thing. First batch in a bucket with very little activity in the airlock, this was a SNPA clone. My gravity readings lead me to think it was done so I racked it to a secondary and it took off again for a few days. 2nd batch was a centennial blonde fermented in a 6 gallon better bottle. Fermented like crazy and even had some blow off. I am on day 9 on this one and still getting activity in the airlock. 3rd batch is a pumpkin ale brewed Sunday in a bucket with a new lid. Very little activity, very minimal krausen yet it has gone from 1.050 to 1.010 in 5 days, based on my SNPA experience i'll let it go several more days and test again. I'm not sure if this indicates the lack of a good seal with the bucket or the type of beer being brewed but each batch was simply pitched on top at the same temps and the results are very different. In the end though US-05 appears to be doing its job very well.

Just a Noob learning as I go but my first two batches are done and are very drinkable if not very good beers so now I can RDWHAHB while I learn..

 

[AndyMac81]

I use us-05 in my stouts and American wheat ales and have had it do that. Usually, it takes 24-48 hours to get going and then it really gets active. It's an odd ale yeast to me that behaves that way but as long as it makes god, drinkable beer, I never worry.