Secondary Fermentation

[rickyspalding]

I am flavoring my Baltic Porter right now. Had in Primary for a month (and one day). I plan to flavor for 2 weeks, maybe more I dont know. I was wondering, since this batch has blackstrap, coffee, chocolate, some cardamom, and this all takes time to develop, the beer is about 5.5% alc.; if it will develop flavors faster just sitting in the secondary for as long as I want, or putting it in bottles right away is better. I know it needs to bottle condition, so I feel like I just answered my own question that I should just bottle and store it for now. Or is this really all trivial? Thanks for the thoughts

 

[eastoak]

after a month in the fermenter i would bottle it although you could go for two months, it would be fine either way. i would bottle condition it for at least a month, probably longer.

 

[Calder]

I don't know the reason behind it, but it is my understanding that flavors develop better when it is bulk aged.